Biography: literary books

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Jules Verne's Scotland: In Fact and Fiction

Jules Verne's Scotland: In Fact and Fiction

Author: Ian Thompson
ISBN: 9781913025267
Format: Paperback
$23.26

This book weaves in all the reasons why the residents of Scotland love to live here; landscape, beautiful scenery,...  Read More >>

Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age

Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in...

Author: Daisy Hay
ISBN: 9780691243986
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller—from...  Read More >>

A Silent Language: The Nobel Lecture

A Silent Language: The Nobel Lecture

Author: Jon Fosse ,  Damion Searls
ISBN: 9781945492983
Format: Paperback
$34.19

"The essential lecture delivered by the 2023 Nobel Laureate in Literature, published for the first time in a collectible...  Read More >>

Writers Who Changed History

Writers Who Changed History

Author: DK ,  James Naughtie
ISBN: 9780744096958
Format: Hardback
$105.60

This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers...  Read More >>

Norman Maclean: A Life of Letters and Rivers

Norman Maclean: A Life of Letters and Rivers

Author: Rebecca McCarthy
ISBN: 9780295752488
Format: Hardback
$79.07

The first biography of one of Montana’s most celebrated writers A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned...  Read More >>

Khushwantnama: The Lessons Of My Life

Khushwantnama: The Lessons Of My Life

Author: Khushwant Singh
ISBN: 9780143419488
Format: Paperback
$25.30

This book is full of the honesty and sharp wit that is so characteristic of Khushwant Singh. It was published by...  Read More >>

An Improbable Series of Risky Events: The Memoirs of Gary Lindberg

An Improbable Series of Risky Events: The Memoirs of...

Author: Gary Lindberg
ISBN: 9781962834094
Format: Paperback
$58.05

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May the Owl Call Again: A Return to Poet John Meade Haines, 1924-2011

May the Owl Call Again: A Return to Poet John Meade...

Author: Rachel Epstein ,  Sandra Kleven
ISBN: 9798891455900
Format: Hardback
$105.60

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Always Another Country

Always Another Country

Author: Sisonke Msimang
ISBN: 9781642861532
Format: Hardback
$79.20

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Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life...

Author: Amy Key
ISBN: 9781529919967
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Is it possible life without romantic love isn't so bad? An essential memoir about building life on your own terms...  Read More >>

Novalis

Novalis

Author: Henri Lichtenberger
ISBN: 9783988818515
Format: Paperback
$39.57

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Funn aur Funnkaar: (Essays)

Funn aur Funnkaar: (Essays)

Author: Musharraf Alam Zauqi
ISBN: 9789358721805
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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Unconditionally Mad, Part 1 - The First Unauthorized History of Mad Magazine

Unconditionally Mad, Part 1 - The First Unauthorized...

Author: Mark Arnold
ISBN: 9798887714097
Format: Paperback
$100.32

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Pierre Guyotat Et l'Algérie

Pierre Guyotat Et l'Algérie

Author: Catherine Brun ,  Guillaume Fau
ISBN: 9782889280964
Format: Paperback
$105.60

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A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

Author: Hilary Mantel
ISBN: 9798885797610
Format: Hardback
$97.65

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Unconditionally Mad, Part 1 - The First Unauthorized History of Mad Magazine (hardback)

Unconditionally Mad, Part 1 - The First Unauthorized...

Author: Mark Arnold
ISBN: 9798887714103
Format: Hardback
$129.36

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Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance

Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance...

Author: Ramie Targoff
ISBN: 9781529404906
Format: Paperback
$43.96

A vividly drawn Joint biography of four extraordinary Renaissance women writers who have been rescued from obscurity...  Read More >>

Faso, �ten�s?: 2015

Faso, �ten�s?: 2015

Author: J Guzm�n
ISBN: 9781957210193
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Faso, �ten�s? is volume 7 of the series On Being, and the second bilingual book of the series. It spans year two...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance

Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance...

Author: Ramie Targoff
ISBN: 9781529404890
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A vividly drawn Joint biography of four extraordinary Renaissance women writers who have been rescued from obscurity...  Read More >>

Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale

Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale

Author: Paul Yamazaki ,  Rick Simonson
ISBN: 9781958846698
Format: Paperback
$36.83

Reading the Room is Paul Yamazaki's love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of the mind. Over...  Read More >>

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone...

Author: Amy Key
ISBN: 9781324095163
Format: Paperback
$47.49

When British poet Amy Key was growing up, she envisioned a life shaped by love—and Joni Mitchell’s album Blue was...  Read More >>

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice...

Author: Alice Walker ,  Valerie Boyd
ISBN: 9781476773162
Format: Paperback
$55.41

"From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize--winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie...  Read More >>

Akira Toriyama: Beyond Dragon Ball: Unveiling the Mythical Maestro

Akira Toriyama: Beyond Dragon Ball: Unveiling the Mythical...

Author: Mathew Manuel
ISBN: 9798884252592
Format: Paperback
$31.65

"Dive into the extraordinary life and legacy of Akira Toriyama, the visionary behind the iconic Dragon Ball series,...  Read More >>

Arise And Go: W.B. Yeats and the people and places that inspired him

Arise And Go: W.B. Yeats and the people and places that...

Author: Kevin Connolly
ISBN: 9781788494854
Format: Paperback
$36.20

The idea of place runs like a river through the life and works of the poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. This book...  Read More >>

A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation

A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of...

Author: John Matteson (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
ISBN: 9780393882421
Format: Paperback
$32.95

Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring...  Read More >>

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