Biography: writers Books
Yale University Press Proust in Love
£32.67
Random House USA Inc Blue Nights
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Random House USA Inc Reading Jackie
Book SynopsisJacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print as an editor at Viking and Doubleday during the last two decades of her life. Many Americans regarded Jackie as the paragon of grace, but few knew her as the woman sitting on her office floor laying out illustrations, or flying to California to persuade Michael Jackson to write his autobiography. William Kuhn provides a behind-the-scenes look at Jackie at work: commissioning books and nurturing authors, helping to shape stories that spoke to her. Based on archives and interviews with her authors, colleagues, and friends, Reading Jackie reveals the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous public image.
£16.62
Picador USA James Dickey The World as a Lie
£40.37
St. Martins Press-3PL Purgatory
£11.39
St. Martins Press-3PL The Paris Review Interview Volume 1 01 Paris Review Interviews
£18.04
St. Martins Press-3PL Reborn
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£20.00
St Martin's Press Out of Sheer Rage
Book SynopsisFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDIn the spirit of Julian Barnes''s Flaubert''s Parrot and Alain de Botton''s How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer''s Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book.--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York TimesGeoff Dyer was a talented young writer, full of energy and reverence for the craft, and determined to write a study of D. H. Lawrence. But he was also thinking about a novel, and about leaving Paris, and maybe moving in with his girlfriend in Rome, or perhaps traveling around for a while. Out of Sheer Rage is Dyer''s account of his struggle to write the Lawrence book--a portrait of a man tormented, exhilarated, and exhausted. Dyer travels all over the world, grappling not only with his fascinating subject but with all the glorious distractions and needling anxieties that define the life of a writer.
£15.30
St Martin's Press Wait for Me
£15.19
Picador USA Louisa May Alcott
£24.87
ABC-CLIO Stephen King
Book SynopsisKnown worldwide for his horror creations in best-selling books and popular film adaptations, Stephen King spent years in obscurity trying to find his voice and his audience. For much of his career he chose to remain in the small-town Maine of his youth. This title traces his evolution from would-be "Pulp" magazine writer to master of his craft.Table of ContentsPreface Timeline: Events in the Life of Stephen King Chapter 1:Taking Up the Pen Chapter 2:Becoming a Writer Chapter 3:Finding a Publisher Chapter 4:Beginning to Establish the Name Stephen King Chapter 5:Becoming the King Chapter 6:Responding to Fame and Fortune Chapter 7:Settling into His Position Chapter 8:Negotiating His Private and Public Lives Chapter 9 Chapter 10:Kings Status Rises Chapter 11: The Sense of an Ending Chapter 12:Letting People Recover Chapter 13:Taking a Stand Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18:The Long Recovery Chapter 19:Retiring, Again Chapter 20:His Busy Retirement Continues Bibliography
£34.00
Little, Brown & Company Flannery
Book Synopsis A “passionate and smart” biography and the definitive account of literary genius Flannery O’Connor’s life (Los Angeles Times), perfect for viewers of Ethan Hawke’s Wildcat. The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and theologically sophisticated woman who wrote them. Brad Gooch brings to life O'Connor's significant friendships — with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, Walker Percy, and James Dickey among others — and her deeply felt convictions, as expressed in her communications with Thomas Merton, Elizabeth Bishop, and Betty Hester. Hester was famously known as 'A' in O'Connor's collected letters, The Habit of Being, and a large cache of correspondence to her from OTrade ReviewGooch is a perceptive guide to O'Connor's work and life, which until now have remained hidden behind the fence of her mother's 550-acre farm, where O'Connor lived as a 'hermit novelist * from the age of 26’ *- TELEGRAPH 'Skilful in marshalling the often humdrum details of O'Connor's life into a readable narrative, Gooch has produced as good a biography as, perhaps, we're likely to get * - SUNDAY TIMES 'A thoroughly researched record of O'Connor's life’ *IRISH TIMES
£17.99
Little Brown and Company One Long River of Song
Book SynopsisA playful, deeply moving book of spiritual essays -- for the spiritual and non-spiritual alike -- that excavate the rich seams of examined life and point to the miracles that surround us.
£20.90
Random House Publishing Group Running with the Bulls
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£16.14
HarperCollins The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
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£32.00
Farrar, Straus and Giroux A Day Like Any Other
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£29.75
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Fifties the
£37.39
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Jack London An American Life
Book SynopsisJack London was born a working-class, fatherless Californian in 1876. He is acclaimed for his bestselling books The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf. In this book, the author explores the forgotten London - at once a hard-living globe-trotter and a man alive with ideas, whose passion for social justice roared until the day he died.
£16.50
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc The Tastemaker Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America
Book SynopsisExplores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth century: a patron and dealmaker of the Harlem Renaissance, a photographer who captured the era's icons, and a novelist who created some of the Jazz Age's most salacious stories.
£22.06
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Lady with the Borzoi The Blanche Knopf Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire
Book SynopsisAn intimate and often surprising biography, The Lady with the Borzoi is the story of an ambitious, seductive, and impossibly hardworking woman who was determined not to be overlooked or easily categorised.
£22.74
Farrar, Straus and Giroux When All the Men Wore Hats
£23.25
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Traversal
£28.00
Random House USA Inc I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Book SynopsisHere is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned
£20.80
W. W. Norton & Company Balzac
£25.65
WW Norton & Co Charlotte Bronte A Passionate Life
Book SynopsisThis highly acclaimed biography looks beyond the insistent image of the modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones. Instead we see a strong, fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art. Lyndall Gordon looks at the shared gifts and class ambitions of the Bronte family, and also at significant people-the active feminist Mary Taylor, the demanding mentor Constantin Heger, the rising publisher George Smith-whom Charlotte strove to possess in life and fiction. Drawing on unpublished letters, the Roe Head Journal, early stories, the manuscript of Villette, and her last, unfinished novel, Lyndall Gordon explores the gaps in Charlotte Bronte's life. How did she arrive at her understanding of passion from a woman's point of view? Could she resolve the testing conflict between a writer's life and a seemingly incongruous marriage to the devoted curate Arthur Bell Nicholls? Looking into the shadow between the facts, Gordon takes biography into that uns
£21.49
W. W. Norton & Company Warrior Poet A Biography of Audre Lorde
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award: the first and "essential" (Choice) biography of the author, poet, and American icon of womanhood, black arts, and survival.Trade Review"Warrior Poet is a literary event of considerable significance." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution"A clearly written and extensively researched volume that is every bit as formidable as Lorde herself was, and will likely be regarded as the definitive study of the controversial poet." -- Buffalo News"De Veaux’s thorough tale of a complicated artist is compelling. Lorde comes to life, and her powerful prose is presented in a whole new light." -- Essence
£23.75
Penguin Publishing Group Man from Mars Ray Palmers Amazing Pulp Journey
Book SynopsisNow in paperback, the rollicking, critically acclaimed true story of the legendary writer and editor who ruled over America's sci-fi, fantasy, and supernatural pulp journals in the mid-twentieth century: Ray Palmer.“Palmer could not have asked for a more sympathetic chronicler, or a better one, than Fred Nadis. His prose and his pronouncements are everything Palmer’s practically never were: restrained, nuanced, intelligently considered. Nadis has a great story, and he relates it exquisitely.” —Jerome Clark, Fortean Times “Fred Nadis’s insightful biography demonstrates that Palmer is significant as well as intriguing.” —The Washington Post “One of science fiction’s greatest gadflies gets his due in this lively and entertaining biography.” —Publishers Weekly“Lucidly written and unfail
£21.47
Penguin Publishing Group The Road to the Dark Tower Exploring Stephen Kings Magnum Opus
Book SynopsisAN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE DARK TOWER SERIES—INCLUDING BOOK-BY-BOOK ANALYSIS AND INSIGHT INTO STEPHEN KING'S CREATIVE PROCESS.In 1970, Stephen King embarked on what would become the crowning achievement in his literary career-the Dark Tower. The seven-volume series, written and published over a period of 30 years, was inspired by Robert Browning's poem Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, as well as J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone.With the full cooperation of Stephen King himself, The Road to the Dark Tower examines the epic journey of the author to complete a story that threatened to overwhelm him. In this indispensable companion, Bev Vincent presents a book-by-book analysis of each volume in the series, tracing the Dark Tower's connections to King's other novels including The Stand, Insomnia, and Hearts in Atlantis, and offering insights from the author about the
£19.10
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Intuitive Reflections
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£18.57
Penguin Putnam Inc The Insider
£28.00
Random House USA Inc Ernest Hemingway
Book SynopsisIncorporating fascinating new research, Mary Dearborn’s revelatory investigation of Hemingway’s life and work substantially deepens our understanding of the artist and the man. A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of the YearThe “most fully faceted portrait of Hemingway now available” (The Washington Post) draws on a wide array of never-before-used material, resulting in the most nuanced biography to date of this complex, enigmatic artist. Considered in his time the greatest living American writer, Hemingway was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize whose personal demons undid him in the end, and whose novels and stories have influenced the writing of fiction for generations after his death.
£19.10
Random House USA Inc Personal Writings
Book SynopsisThe Nobel Prize winner''s most influential and enduring personal writings, newly curated and introduced by acclaimed Camus scholar Alice Kaplan.Albert Camus (1913-1960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonder and absurdity of existence. Personal Writings brings together, for the first time, thematically-linked essays from across Camus''s writing career that reflect the scope and depth of his interior life. Grappling with an indifferent mother and an impoverished childhood in Algeria, an ever-present sense of exile, and an ongoing search for equilibrium, Camus''s personal essays shed new light on the emotional and experiential foundations of his philosophical thought and humanize his most celebrated works.
£14.40
Houghton Mifflin Margaret Fuller A New American Life
Book SynopsisWhether detailing her front-page New-York Tribune editorials against poor conditions in the city's prisons and mental hospitals, or illuminating her late-in-life hunger for passionate experience - including a secret affair with a young officer in the Roman Guard, this title takes a fresh look at the trailblazing life of a great American heroine.
£19.99
HarperCollins Homage to Catalonia
Book SynopsisA National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century “One of Orwell’s very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War.”—The New Yorker In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself embroiled as a participant—as a member of the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unity. Fighting against the Fascists, he described in painfully vivid and occasionally comic detail life in the trenches—with a “democratic army” composed of men with no ranks, no titles, and often no weapons—and his near fatal wounding. As the politics became tangled, Orwell was pulled into a heartbreaking conflict between his own personal ideals and the complicated realities of political power struggles. Considered one of the finest works by a man V. S. Pritchett called &
£15.99
Faber & Faber Angus Wilson
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£22.00
Faber & Faber Henry Miller
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Faber & Faber Freelancing
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Faber & Faber Christina Rossetti
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Faber & Faber With Friends Possessed
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Penguin Putnam Inc Judy Blume
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£22.79
iUniverse Who Killed Virginia Woolf A Psychobiography
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iUniverse Francis Ledwidge Song of the Blackbird
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iUniverse Poet in America Winfield Townley Scott
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iUniverse Wannabe The Confessions of a Failed Bibliophile
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iUniverse Confessions Of A Freelance Writer How I Got Started
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iUniverse Reminiscences of a Russian Antiquarian Bookseller Encounters with People and Books 19241986
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iUniverse The Master of Sunnybank A Biography of Albert Payson Terhune
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