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Biography & Autobiography - Literary Figures
"A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is
that Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-crime story
she'd spent years researching. Casey Cep has excavated this
mesmerizing story and tells it with grace and insight and a fierce
fidelity to the truth.
The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr.
Seuss
Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. His work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. More than twenty-five years after his death, his books continue to find new readers, now grossing over half a billion dollars in sales.
Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. His work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. More than twenty-five years after his death, his books continue to find new readers, now grossing over half a billion dollars in sales.
In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most
daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous
readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he
has had by heart since childhood.
Gone are the polemics.
Gone are the polemics.
From the acclaimed biographer--the fascinating, little-known
story of a Victorian-era murder that rocked literary London,
leading Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and Queen Victoria
herself to wonder. Can a novel kill.
In May 1840, Lord William Russell, well known in London's highest social circles, was found with his throat cut.
In May 1840, Lord William Russell, well known in London's highest social circles, was found with his throat cut.
The powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist
through a trial by fire
What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman's brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others.
What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman's brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others.
A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly
rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron;
she changed English poetry; her novels, short stories, and
criticism, like Byron though in a woman's voice, explored the dark
side of sexuality--by the acclaimed author of The Brontë
Myth ("wonderfully entertaining .
A routine procedure left novelist, memoirist, and poet Judy
Goldman's husband paralyzed. Together is her unforgettable
account of the struggle to regain their "normal" life and a nuanced
portrait of a marriage tested.
When Judy Goldman's husband of almost four decades reads a newspaper ad for an injection to alleviate back pain, the outpatient procedure sounds like the answer to his longtime backaches.
When Judy Goldman's husband of almost four decades reads a newspaper ad for an injection to alleviate back pain, the outpatient procedure sounds like the answer to his longtime backaches.
The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives
us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a
real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she recently made
about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden
story of her own life.
From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting. a
narratively driven, deeply human biography of the 8th century poet,
Li Bai--also known as Li Po--one of the most beloved poets ever to
emerge from China.
With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range of historical and literary sources to weave the life story of Li Bai (701-762), whose poems--shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life--rang throughout the Tang Dynasty and continue to be celebrated today.
With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range of historical and literary sources to weave the life story of Li Bai (701-762), whose poems--shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life--rang throughout the Tang Dynasty and continue to be celebrated today.
The author of the award-winning, two-volume Matisse. A
Life, now gives us the long-awaited, definitive biography of
literary master Anthony Powell--the critic, editor, and novelist
known as "the English Proust"-- that, at the same time, takes us
deep into twentieth-century London literary life.
"Stunning... This is Kathryn Harrison in top form." --Augusten
Burroughs
In the tradition of The Hare with Amber Eyes and Running in the Family, a memoir of the author's upbringing by her grandparents in a fading mansion above Sunset Boulevard -- a childhood at once privileged and unusual, filled with the mementos and echoes of their impossibly exotic and peripatetic lives.
In the tradition of The Hare with Amber Eyes and Running in the Family, a memoir of the author's upbringing by her grandparents in a fading mansion above Sunset Boulevard -- a childhood at once privileged and unusual, filled with the mementos and echoes of their impossibly exotic and peripatetic lives.
History meets memoir in two irresistible true-life romances--one
set in 19th century Rome, one in present-day Paris and
London--linked by a bond between women writers a hundred years
apart
In 1857, English novelist Elizabeth Gaskell completed her most famous work.
In 1857, English novelist Elizabeth Gaskell completed her most famous work.
