Biography: literary books

27218 books were found.

Las' Days of Class

Las' Days of Class

Author: Krishna Samaroo
ISBN: 9798321003749
Format: Paperback
$39.60

The 70's was a time of revolution. Black Power was in the air. The outer world encroaches, but school offers still...  Read More >>

Once Upon a Villa: Adventures on the French Riviera

Once Upon a Villa: Adventures on the French Riviera...

Author: Andrew Kaplan
ISBN: 9781736809969
Format: Hardback
$86.99

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The Bloomsbury Look

The Bloomsbury Look

Author: Wendy Hitchmough
ISBN: 9780300277913
Format: Paperback
$46.95

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How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

Author: Safiya Sinclair
ISBN: 9780008491321
Format: Paperback
$28.44

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION ‘Lushly written and heart-stoppingly...  Read More >>

Big Sur

Big Sur

Author: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9798869208637
Format: Paperback
$34.29

In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication...  Read More >>

Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir

Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir

Author: Zo� Bossiere
ISBN: 9781419773181
Format: Hardback
$71.28

A striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest that captures the author's...  Read More >>

Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi, a Biography

Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual...

Author: Siphiwo Mahala
ISBN: 9781776147328
Format: Hardback
$234.96

Brings to life the iconic South African writer and journalist, Can Themba who died while exiled in Swaziland in...  Read More >>

Alfred Hitchcock: La biograf�a del Maestro del Suspense, sus relatos y su filosof�a cinematogr�fica

Alfred Hitchcock: La biograf�a del Maestro del Suspense,...

Author: United Library
ISBN: 9789464901634
Format: Paperback
$39.57

"Emb�rquese en un apasionante viaje a trav�s de la vida y el legado cinematogr�fico de Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock,...  Read More >>

Children and Biography: Reading and Writing Life Stories

Children and Biography: Reading and Writing Life Stories...

Author: Professor Kate Douglas (Flinder's University, Australia) ,  Kate Douglas (Flinder's University Australia)
ISBN: 9781350236400
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The first study of life narratives produced for, about, and written by children, this book examines the recent popularity...  Read More >>

Dostoevsky: A Very Short Introduction

Dostoevsky: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Deborah Martinsen (Associate Dean of Alumni Education, Columbia College, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780198864332
Format: Paperback
$21.95

This book shows why it is that Dostoevsky became the writer best known for his treatment of the big questions of...  Read More >>

A Writer's Recollections, Volume 1 (Esprios Classics)

A Writer's Recollections, Volume 1 (Esprios Classics)...

Author: Mrs Humphry Ward
ISBN: 9781034548829
Format: Paperback
$53.30

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A Writer's Recollections, Volume 2 (Esprios Classics)

A Writer's Recollections, Volume 2 (Esprios Classics)...

Author: Mrs Humphry Ward
ISBN: 9781034548881
Format: Paperback
$55.50

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Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives

Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical...

Author: Dr Emma Parker
ISBN: 9781350353794
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The dismantlement of the British Empire had a profound impact on many celebrated white Anglophone writers of the...  Read More >>

Mary and Mr. Eliot: A Sort of Love Story

Mary and Mr. Eliot: A Sort of Love Story

Author: Mary Trevelyan ,  Erica Wagner
ISBN: 9781250321831
Format: Paperback
$52.80

"Mary and Mr. Eliot is a twin portrait of T. S. Eliot and its author, the formidable Mary Trevelyan. In 1938 T....  Read More >>

Notes from the Henhouse: On Marrying a Poet, Raising Children and Chickens, and Writing

Notes from the Henhouse: On Marrying a Poet, Raising...

Author: Elspeth Barker
ISBN: 9781668022153
Format: Paperback
$47.52

"A sharp and witty collection of autobiographical essays by the late Elspeth Barker--acclaimed journalist and author...  Read More >>

A Chance Meeting: American Encounters

A Chance Meeting: American Encounters

Author: Rachel Cohen ,  Rachel Cohen
ISBN: 9781681378107
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Weaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings...  Read More >>

On the Life of Linda J. Albertano: From Trauma to High Art

On the Life of Linda J. Albertano: From Trauma to High...

Author: Linda J Albertano ,  Frank Lutz
ISBN: 9781884743108
Format: Paperback
$121.44

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My Life in Cartoons

My Life in Cartoons

Author: Paul Driessen
ISBN: 9781998779376
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence

Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence

Author: Avril Horner
ISBN: 9781526173744
Format: Hardback
$68.99

This biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels....  Read More >>

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 >>

Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets

Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives...

Author: Michael Korda
ISBN: 9781631496882
Format: Hardback
$79.17

The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets in Michael Korda’s...  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

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