Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Incoming Resources
- Pearl Buck in China, [journey to The good earth], Hilary Spurling
- The talented Miss Highsmith, the secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith, Joan Schenkar
- Philip Roth, the biography, Blake Bailey
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider, the story of E.B. White, Barbara Herkert ; illustrated by Lauren Castillo
- The dangerous summer, Ernest Hemingway ; introduction by James A. Michener. --
- Tell them it was wonderful, selected writings, by Ludwig Bemelmans ; edited and with an introduction by Madeleine Bemelmans ; foreword by Norman Cousins
- The faith of a writer, life, craft, art, Joyce Carol Oates
- Dad's maybe book, Tim O'Brien
- The best of us, a memoir, Joyce Maynard
- Sontag, her life and work, Benjamin Moser
- Eat your mind, the radical life and work of Kathy Acker, Jason McBride
- Ernesto, the untold story of Hemingway in revolutionary Cuba, Andrew Feldman
- The art of vanishing, a memoir of wanderlust, Laura Smith
- The breaking point, Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the murder of José Robles, Stephen Koch
- The draw, a memoir, Lee Siegel
- Two lives, Reeve Lindbergh
- Thanks for waiting, the joy (& weirdness) of being a late bloomer, Doree Shafrir
- Jonathan Franzen, the comedy of rage, Philip Weinstein
- Shirley Jackson, a rather haunted life, Ruth Franklin
- You don't have to say you love me, a memoir, Sherman Alexie
- Sometimes you have to lie, the life and times of Louise Fitzhugh, renegade author of Harriet the spy, Leslie Brody
- Sailor and fiddler, reflections of a 100-year-old author, Herman Wouk
- Unsolaced, along the way to all that is, Gretel Ehrlich
- Dad's maybe book, Tim O'Brien
- Working, researching, interviewing, writing, Robert A. Caro
- Rascal, by Sterling North ; illustrated by John Schoenherr. --
- J.D. Salinger, the escape artist, Thomas Beller
- I know why the caged bird sings, Maya Angelou
- Hemingway's boat, everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961, Paul Hendrickson
- In search of our mothers' gardens, womanist prose, by Alice Walker
- The lost landscape, a writer's coming of age, Joyce Carol Oates
- James Baldwin, living in fire, Bill V. Mullen
- Here if you need me, a true story, Kate Braestrup
- Perfectly miserable, guilt, God and real estate in a small town, Sarah Payne Stuart
- Between them, remembering my parents, Richard Ford
- When we were the Kennedys, a memoir from Mexico, Maine, Monica Wood
- Susan Sontag, the making of an icon, Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock
- Desert solitaire, a season in the wilderness, Edward Abbey
- Edith Wharton, Hermione Lee
- A lowcountry heart, reflections on a writing life, Pat Conroy
- All the way to America, the story of a big Italian family and a little shovel, Dan Yaccarino
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake, Anna Quindlen
- My life as a villainess, essays, Laura Lippman
- Wolf, the lives of Jack London, James L. Haley
- Together, memoir of a marriage and a medical mishap, by Judy Goldman
- The red caddy, into the unknown with Edward Abbey, Charles Bowden ; foreword by Luis Alberto Urrea
- This boy's life, a memoir, Tobias Wolff
- James Purdy, life of a contrarian writer, Michael Snyder
- Travels with Charley, in search of America, John Steinbeck ; with an introduction by Jay Parini
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light, essays, Helen Ellis
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