Literary Figures

Isabel Russell gives readers a portrait, both humorous and touching, of one of the great literary marriages of our time and of two people whose love for one another and their work burned as brightly in their old age as it did in their youth.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393003475Author David DaichesFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 241g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425227Author Howard NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint St. Martins Press-3plPublisher St. Martins Press-3plWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312292546Author Tony ButtitaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 249g

In Myself and Strangers, John Graves, the highly regarded author of Goodbye to a River and other classic works, recalls the decade-long apprenticeship in which he found his voice as a writer. He recounts his wanderings from Texas to Mexico, New York, and...

"I took my road with no little pride of fear; one morning I feared very sharply, as I saw what looked like a rising shroud over a wooden cross in the clustering mist. Horror! But on a closer study I realized that the apparition was only a flannel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156935555Author Philippe JullianFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 142mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156032032Author Hortense CalisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156002035Author Gary PaulsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143121886Author Barry GiffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 356gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063000131Author Laura LippmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062997333Author Laura LippmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 180mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060955489Author Malachy McCourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060937966Author Edmund WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865475892Author Dennis CovingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 236g

In 1962, David Carkeet's drowsy hometown of Sonora, California, snapped awake at the news that it had inspired a smutty potboiler titled ""Campus Sexpot"". Carkeet, at the time a hormone-saturated high school sophomore, uproariously...

In this memoir, Pearson renders time and place vividly through lyrical narrative and generous spirit toward his characters, juxtaposing descriptions of adolescent escapades with the grim discipline of parochial schools. In this Bronx, dreams of escape...

'A high-spirited, richly informed, and original portrait, a cross between biography, literary analysis and a study in modern canonisation: Karolina Watroba is an inspired guide and her book a pleasure to read.' Marina Warner In 2024, exactly one hundred...

More Than Things is a collection of essays on a variety of political, cultural, and literary issues, all linked by Margaret Randall's attention to power: its use, misuse, and impact on how we live our lives. There are texts on sex, fashion, food, LGBT...

In the 1930s Grey Owl was considered the foremost conservationist and nature writer in the world. He owed his fame largely to his four internationally bestselling books, which he supported with a series of extremely popular illustrated lectures across...

Winner of the Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association As a teenager, Manuel Chavez (1910-1996) left his native New Mexico for over a decade of study at the St. Francis Seraphic Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, and other midwestern...

In 1815 a young North Carolina schoolteacher who was Jewish wrote to the celebrated Maria Edgeworth to ask why British novelists wrote in such a prejudiced manner about Jews. Maria was so moved by the letter that she set to work on a novel to make...

Lillian Hellman's memoirs are as notable for what they omit as for what they reveal. In An Unfinished Woman (1969), she notes that, although she kept an extensive diary of her Moscow trip in the winter of 1944-45, ""No where is there a record...

From the 1920s through the 1950s Maxwell Anderson was one of the most important playwrights in America. His thirty-three produced plays make him a leader among these playwrights of America's most creative era in the theater, and a number of his plays...

This intellectual biography of William Faulkner traces the author's attempts to liberate himself from the repressive Victorian culture in which he was raised by embracing the Modernist culture of the artistic avant-garde. Daniel Singal argues that, to...

This compelling volume offers the first full portrait of the life and work of writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966), the foremost southern white liberal of the mid-twentieth century. Smith devoted her life to lifting the veil of southern self-deception about...

In recognition of his achievements in literature, Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) received four honorary doctorates and a Pulitzer Prize. Keith Newlin traces the rise of this prairie farm boy with a half-formed ambition to write who then skyrocketed into...

"You are either a Mildred Walker enthusiast," as the Philadelphia Inquirer once declared, "or you are missing one of the best writers on the American scene." As Mildred Walker's daughter, Ripley Hugo was in the latter category. This...

Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty...

In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial...

This is the story of a remarkable woman whose artistic mission was to relate Mexican cultural history to English-language readers. A world-renowned playwright in the 1930s and best-selling novelist in the 1940s, Josefina Niggli published at a time when...

In his eighty-plus years, Max Evans has known, owned, ridden, and been thrown by quite a number of horses. In For the Love of a Horse, Evans shares his favorite horse stories for all to enjoy. As Max explains, "I wanted a wide range of adventures...

Walker Percy (1916-1990), the reclusive southern author most famous for his 1961 novel The Moviegoer, spent much of his adult life in Covington, Louisiana. In the spirit of traditional southern storytelling, this biography of Percy takes its shape from...

This is the classic work, updated with new material on Garcia Marquez's latest fiction, memoir, and journalism. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential writers of our time, with a unique literary creativity rooted in the history of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993409967Author David S WillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Beatdom BooksPublisher Beatdom Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986124013Author Aleta GeorgeFormat PaperbackImprint Shifting Plates PressPublisher Shifting Plates PressWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985556181Author Don CusicFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Brackish PublishingPublisher Brackish PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984004324Author Mary DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Paris Writers PressPublisher Paris Writers PressWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982766927Author Lionel EndenberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Atomic Drop PressPublisher Atomic Drop PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982077542Author Debra Di BlasiFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Jaded Ibis PressPublisher Jaded Ibis PressWeight(grams) 231g