Biography: literary books

Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and Sylvia Plath are three of our most famous authors – for the first time this...  Read More >>

Es geht weiter mit meiner alternativen, aussergewöhnlichen und spektakulären Autobiographie, meinem Ritt durch die...  Read More >>

From the author of the ""deliriously fast paced and erudite"" (Library Journal) THREE MARTINI AFTERNOONS AT THE...  Read More >>

An authoritative overview of horror writing. It explores the lives of relevant writers, the reception of relevant...  Read More >>

This beautiful and deeply personal book blends memoir and biography with literary criticism to offer a new perspective...  Read More >>

A story of adventurous pilgrimage rambles through fields of France, mountains of Switzerland, and plains of Italy....  Read More >>

In today's world, where we are constantly bombarded by images, simulations, and digital media, understanding the...  Read More >>

After numerous volumes of poetry and short stories as well as two novels, Geertje Suhr presents here a special kind...  Read More >>

The story with the title The Grape Picker was the main reason that I wrote this book. It is the story of an accidental...  Read More >>

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""This book presents the life and works of Yehuda Amichai, born Ludwig Pfeuffer in Wèurzburg, Germany. Amichai,...  Read More >>

From the bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry comes a contagiously funny, heartwarming, shocking,...  Read More >>

Until now, little sustained attention has been paid to the influences on Sylvia Plath’s life and work. In this meticulously...  Read More >>

"""A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word.""--Provided...  Read More >>

Features meditations on what it is like to be old as well as on how memory shapes us.  Read More >>

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How and why did Minnesota, distant from both dream coasts, become a literary mecca? Why not Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee,...  Read More >>

Perfect for fans of Shakespeare to curl up with in the lead up to Christmas.  Read More >>

An outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the complicated relationship between Joan Didion and...  Read More >>

""Covid-19 stole so much. But one of the things it couldn't steal was the power of stories.""  Read More >>

A biography of the remarkable, and in her time scandalous, seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, Duchess...  Read More >>

The Jargon Society, a boundary-pushing publisher of poetry and experimental writing, was founded by Jonathan Williams...  Read More >>

Vie de Tolstoï de Romain Rolland offre un portrait saisissant de l'un des géants de la littérature mondiale. Dans...  Read More >>

The Jargon Society, a boundary-pushing publisher of poetry and experimental writing, was founded by Jonathan Williams...  Read More >>

In 2015, Ben Miller moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to focus on his writing. Working a day...  Read More >>