Category: Biograghy / Literary

'Tis: A Memoir

By: McCourt, Frank

Price: $5.45

Publisher: Scribner : September 1999

Seller ID: 442884

ISBN-13: 9780684848785

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning classic memoir, Angela's Ashes, about McCourt's coming of age as an immigrant in America. Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we ha...
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A Day at the Beach: Recollections

By: Wolff, Geoffrey

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Vintage : July 1993

Seller ID: 428959

ISBN-13: 9780679744498

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Distant Prospect

By: Berners, Lord Gerald Hugh Tyrwitt-Wilson

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Turtle Point Press / Helen Marx Books : April 2000

Seller ID: 440359

ISBN-13: 9781885983329

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, light shelf wear.
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A Girl's Story

By: Ernaux, Annie

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Seven Stories Press : April 2020

Seller ID: 467231

ISBN-13: 9781609809515

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize-shortlisted author of The Years. In A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the season fifty years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another's will and desire. In the summer of 1958, eighteen-year-old Ernaux submits her will to a man's, and then he moves on, leaving her without a "master," bereft. Now, fifty years later, she realizes she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider this young woman that she wanted to forget completely. And to discover that here, submerged in shame...
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A London childhood

By: Holloway, John

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Scribner : January 1968

Seller ID: 473605

ISBN: B0006BU6VQ

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Parting Gift

By: Sharkey, Frances M.D.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: St Martins Pr : January 1982

Seller ID: 458826

ISBN-13: 9780312597481

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Albert Camus: A Biography: A Biography

By: Lottman, Herbert R

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Gingko Press : July 1996

Seller ID: 468940

ISBN-13: 9783927258068

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Clean copy, light wear to edges.
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Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $7.98

Publisher: HarperVia : April 1999

Seller ID: 454136

ISBN-13: 9780060930172

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende celebrates the pleasures of the sensual life in this rich, joyful and slyly humorous book, a combination of personal narrative and treasury of erotic lore. Under the aegis of the Goddess of Love, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly in Aphrodite to evoke the delights of food and sex. After considerable research and study, she has become an authority on aphrodisiacs, which include everything from food and drink to stories and, of course, love. Readers will find here recipes from Allende's mother, po...
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition (Volume 12) (Mark Twain Papers)

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $22.98

Publisher: University of California Press : October 2015

Seller ID: 462504

ISBN-13: 9780520279940

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The surprising final chapter of a great American life. When the first volume of Mark Twain's uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist's life and times. This third and final volume crowns and completes his life's work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his lif...
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Beginning Again: An Autobiography Of The Years 1911 To 1918

By: Woolf, Leonard

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 1989

Seller ID: 450998

ISBN-13: 9780156116800

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The author's account of the events of World War I and also a description of the origin of the Bloomsbury Group, the founding of the Hogarth Press, and the author's marriage to Virginia Stephen. To write this masterly account is a severe test of courage and honesty...it raises the book to greatness (The Nation). Index; photographs.

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Bill W: The absorbing and deeply moving life story of Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous

By: Thomsen, Robert

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Hazelden Publishing : August 1999

Seller ID: 405380

ISBN-13: 9781568383439

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Robert Thomsen's biography describes the story of Bill W., a stirring spiritual odyssey through triumph, failure, and rebirth, with vital meaning for men and women everywhere. This is the story of a man whose discovery and vision have changed the lives of millions of people throughout the world. Robert Thomsen's biography takes readers through the events of Bill W.'s life, all the while detailing Bill's growing dependence on alcohol. Thomsen writes of the collapse that brought Bill to the verge of death and of the luminous instant of insight that saved him. This turning point led Bill to the e...
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Brecht: A Biography

By: Hayman, Ronald

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press : November 1983

Seller ID: 449072

ISBN-13: 9780195204346

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir

By: Wideman, John Edgar

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Scribner : October 2020

Seller ID: 468564

ISBN-13: 9781982148751

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

"A rare triumph" (The New York Times Book Review), this powerful memoir about the divergent paths taken by two brothers is a classic work from one of the greatest figures in American literature: a reflection on John Edgar Wideman's family and his brother's incarceration--a classic that is as relevant now as when originally published in 1984. A "brave and brilliant" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) portrait of lives arriving at different destinies, the classic John Edgar Wideman memoir, Brothers and Keepers, is a haunting portrait of two brothers--one an award-winning writer, the other a fugitive wa...
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Charles Kingsley: The lion of Eversley

By: Colloms, Brenda

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Barnes & Noble : January 1975

Seller ID: 474478

ISBN-13: 9780064912693

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Very Good

Curriculum Vitae: a Volume of Autobiography: A Volume of Autobiography (Biography and Memoirs)

By: Spark, Muriel

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Constable and Company Ltd : July 1992

Seller ID: 443655

ISBN-13: 9780094696501

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Downhill All The Way: An Autobiography Of The Years 1919 To 1939

By: Woolf, Leonard

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 1989

Seller ID: 450997

ISBN-13: 9780156261456

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Leonard Woolf's recollections of his life with Virginia Woolf during the years when she wrote her major novels; also an account of the growth of the Hogarth Press, as well as portraits of Sigmund Freud, T. S. Eliot, and others. There is a lucid probity in Leonard Woolf's writing (Leon Edel, Saturday Review). Index; photographs.

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Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert

By: Herbert, Brian

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Tor Books : April 2003

Seller ID: 477431

ISBN-13: 9780765306463

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This amazing and complex epic, combining politics, religion, human evolution, and ecology, has captured the imagination of generations of readers. One of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, it has become a worldwide phenomenon, winning awards, selling millions of copies around the world. In the prophetic year of 1984, "Dune" was made into a motion picture directed by David Lynch, and it has recently been produced as a three-part miniseries on the Sci-Fi Channel. Though he is best remembered for "Dune," Frank Herbert was the author of more ...
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Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year

By: Sarton, May

Price: $7.99

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : July 1995

Seller ID: 453570

ISBN-13: 9780393313178

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Sarton writes perceptively of how age affects her: the way small things take longer and tire more, what it feels like to endure pain and to be afraid. Other days her energy returns, her spirits lift, and projects abound. Readers both new and old will cherish this latest dispatch from her ongoing journey.
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Fanny and Adelaide: The Lives of the Remarkable Kemble Sisters

By: Blainey, Ann

Price: $8.99

Publisher: UNKNO : March 2001

Seller ID: 396324

ISBN-13: 9781566633727

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Chronicles the lives of Fanny and Adelaide Kemble, from Fanny's acting career, marriage to and divorce from a Philadelphia slave-owner, and her work as an abolitionist; and Adelaide's successful opera career and troubled marriage.
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George Eliot: The emergent self

By: Redinger, Ruby V

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Knopf : distributed by Random House : January 1975

Seller ID: 473127

ISBN-13: 9780394490106

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her

By: Rehak, Melanie

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Mariner Books : September 2006

Seller ID: 475452

ISBN-13: 9780156030564

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers) to enter the pantheon of American girlhood. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers' lives. Here, in a narrative with all the vivid energy and page-turning pace of Nancy's adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? And how did she go from pul...
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Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson

By: Seymour, Corey,Wenner, Jann S.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : October 2007

Seller ID: 462500

ISBN-13: 9780316005272

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into such landmark works as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - "and his singular and provocative style challenged and revolutionized writing.Now, for the first time ever, Jann Wenner and Corey Seymour have interviewed the Good Doctor's friends, family, acquaintances and colleagues and woven their memories into a brilliant oral biography. From Hell's Angels leader Sonny Barger to Ralph Steadman to Jack Ni...
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Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (Anchor Books)

By: Graves, Robert

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Anchor : June 1957

Seller ID: 477632

ISBN-13: 9780385093309

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this autobiography, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War. Written after the war and as he was leaving his birthplace, he thought, forever, Good-Bye to All That bids farewell not only to England and his English family and friends, but also to a way of life. Tracing his upbringing from his solidly middle-class Victorian childhood through his entry into the war at age twenty-one as a patriotic captain in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, this dramatic, poignant, often wry autobiography goes o...
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Growing: An Autobiography Of The Years 1904 To 1911

By: Woolf, Leonard

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 1989

Seller ID: 450999

ISBN-13: 9780156372152

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Woolf's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. He has a seemingly effortless way with words which is beautiful and spellbinding (J. M. Edelstein, New Republic). Index; photographs.

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Hand to Mouth : A Chronicle of Early Failure

By: AUSTER, PAUL

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co : October 1998

Seller ID: 419750

ISBN-13: 9780805054897

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Heinrich Heine: A Modern Biography (Princeton Legacy Library, 583)

By: Sammons, Jeffrey L.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Princeton University Press : January 1980

Seller ID: 437381

ISBN-13: 9780691100814

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Heinrich Heine has been one of the liveliest topics in German literary studies for the past fifteen years. His life was marked by an exceptionally high pitch of constant public controversy and an extraordinary quantity of legend and speculation surround his reputation. This biography, the first in English in over twenty years and the first fully documented one in over a century, makes full use of the newest material in contemporary studies as well as of older scholarship. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make availab...
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Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane (The Modern Jewish Experience)

By: Sorin, Gerald

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Indiana University Press : November 2012

Seller ID: 411794

ISBN-13: 9780253007278

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Howard Fast's life, from a rough-and-tumble Jewish New York street kid to the rich and famous author of close to 100 books, rivals the Horatio Alger myth. Author of bestsellers such as Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road, My Glorious Brothers, and Spartacus, Fast joined the American Communist Party in 1943 and remained a loyal member until 1957, despite being imprisoned for contempt of Congress. Gerald Sorin illuminates the connections among Fast's Jewishness, his writings, and his left-wing politics and explains Fast's attraction to the Party and the reasons he stayed in it as long as he did. Rec...
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

By: Shapiro, Dani

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group : January 2020

Seller ID: 475646

ISBN-13: 9780525434030

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

An Instant NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A LOS ANGELES TIMES, BOSTON GLOBE, WALL STREET JOURNAL, and NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER Named A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by *Elle * Vanity Fair * Wired * Real Simple * Kirkus Reviews * BookPage * "Memoir gold: a profound and exquisitely rendered exploration of identity and the true meaning of family." --People Magazine "Beautifully written and deeply moving--it brought me to tears more than once."--Ruth Franklin, The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the acclaimed, best-selling memoirist, novelist and host of the hit podcast Family Secrets, comes a memoir about the...
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ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL.

By: Rolt, L.T.C.

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Penguin : January 1976

Seller ID: 432170

ISBN-13: 9780140211948

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Pages unmarked, light crease along spine and discoloration to page edges.
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J.R.R. Tolkien For Beginners

By: Markos, Louis

Price: $15.95

Publisher: For Beginners : September 2022

Seller ID: 457760

ISBN-13: 9781939994820

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Kerouac: A Biography

By: Charters, Ann

Price: $27.99

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin : October 1994

Seller ID: 435325

ISBN-13: 9780312113476

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary methods and examine the dozen books comprising what he called 'the legend of Duluoz.' Nearly all of his books have been in print internationally since his death in 1969, and his writing has been discovered and enjoyed by new readers throughout the world. Kerouac's view of the promise of America, the seductive and lovely vision of the beckoning open spaces of our continent, has never been expressed better by subsequent writers, perhaps ...
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Louis Auchincloss: A Writer's Life

By: Gelderman, Carol

Price: $9.99

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press : December 2007

Seller ID: 466363

ISBN-13: 9781570037115

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

With more than sixty published novels, short story collections, and works of criticism and history to his credit, Louis Auchincloss is the very definition of prolific. He has garnered widespread acclaim for his unrivaled critical observations of Manhattan circles of wealth and influence, the same elite society in which he moves. In her definitive literary biography of Auchincloss, Carol Gelderman traces the iconic writer from boarding school to his early literary forays at Yale, from law school to naval service in World War II, and then to Wall Street, chronicling his success in both legal and...
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Magical Thinking: True Stories

By: Burroughs, Augusten

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Picador : October 2005

Seller ID: 445444

ISBN-13: 9780312315955

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry--a contagiously funny, heartwarming, shocking, twisted, and absolutely magical collection. True stories that give voice to the thoughts we all have but dare not mention. It begins with a Tang Instant Breakfast Drink television commercial when Augusten was seven. Then there is the contest of wills with the deranged cleaning lady. The execution of a rodent carried out with military precision and utter horror. Telemarketing revenge. Dating an undertaker and much more. A collection of true stories that are universal in their appeal ye...
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My Losing Season: A Memoir

By: Conroy, Pat

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Bantam Books : August 2003

Seller ID: 474615

ISBN-13: 9780553381900

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball--and life itself--by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid who grew up on the move, the Bulldogs provide a sanctuary from the cold, abrasive father who dominates his life--and a crucible for becoming his own man. With all the drama and incandescence of his bestselling fiction, Conroy re-creates his pivot...
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Noël Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits

By: Castle, Terry

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Columbia University Press : April 1996

Seller ID: 416858

ISBN-13: 9780231105965

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

clean copy, dust jacket intact
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Orlean Puckett: The Life of a Mountain Midwife, 1844-1939

By: Smith, Karen Cecil

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Blair : January 2003

Seller ID: 438728

ISBN-13: 9781887905725

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, creases on backcover.
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Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis

By: Thunberg, Greta,Thunberg, Svante,Ernman, Malena,Ernman, Beata

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Penguin Books : March 2020

Seller ID: 475329

ISBN-13: 9780143133575

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A must-read ecological message of hope . . . Everyone with an interest in the future of this planet should read this book. --David Mitchell, The Guardian When climate activist Greta Thunberg was eleven, her parents Malena and Svante, and her little sister Beata, were facing a crisis in their own home. Greta had stopped eating and speaking, and her mother and father had reconfigured their lives to care for her. Desperate and searching for answers, her parents discovered what was at the heart of Greta's distress: her imperiled future on a rapidly heating planet. Steered by Greta's determination...
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Purgatory: A Prison Diary Volume 2 (A Prison Diary, 2)

By: Archer, Jeffrey

Price: $7.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin : July 2005

Seller ID: 468754

ISBN-13: 9780312342166

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

small bends in back corner of pages
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Rebecca West

By: Weldon, Fay

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Penguin Books : February 1986

Seller ID: 462502

ISBN-13: 9780140080025

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Richard Wright: The Life and Times

By: Rowley, Hazel

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. : August 2001

Seller ID: 414763

ISBN-13: 9780805047769

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The first full-scale biography of the author of Black Boy and Native Son -- written with the dramatic drive of a novel. "Writing," Richard Wright once said, "is my way of being a free man." In this authoritative and engaging biography, Hazel Rowley chronicles Wright's extraordinary journey from a sharecropper's shack in Mississippi to international renown as a writer, fiercely independent thinker, and outspoken critic of racism. The child of the fundamentalist South with an eighth-grade education, a self-taught intellectual in the working-class Communist Party of the 1930s, a black man married...
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