Literary Figures

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988523838Author Manu CornetFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Manu CornetPublisher Manu CornetWeight(grams) 163g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773408197Author Maureen CoteFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 152g

My mother killed herself on the first day of spring. So begins South Mountain Road, Hesper Anderson's elegant, wrenching memoir of death and deception, family secrets and memories, and of a young girl's trauma of self-discovery.When Hesper Anderson, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254035Author Bob HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint TrilliumPublisher TrilliumWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965183567Author Lewis Putnam TurcoFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Cloudbank CreationsPublisher Cloudbank CreationsWeight(grams) 550g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965183543Author Lewis Putnam TurcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Cloudbank CreationsPublisher Cloudbank CreationsWeight(grams) 398g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939394210Author Keith HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Black Willow PressPublisher Black Willow PressWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991125715Author Francine PruittFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Shade Green PublishingPublisher Shade Green PublishingWeight(grams) 172g

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This profile of the man and the writer is an introduction to the personality behind The Chapman Report and The Fan Club. Through correspondence, diaries, manuscript annotations, interviews and other private sources, the profile reveals the man who began...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780921689430Author George WoodcockFormat HardbackPage Count 307Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916242169Author Willie MorrisFormat PaperbackImprint Yoknapatawpha PressPublisher Yoknapatawpha PressWeight(grams) 68g

Drawing on 100 never-before-published interviews, Scott McConnell presents a unique portrait of a larger-than-life literary giant and a fascinating individual, Ayn Rand. Focusing on the private Rand, McConnell talked to the author's family, friends,...

The most comprehensive portrait yet of Richard Hakluyt, indefatigable promoter of English colonization in America Richard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, advocated the creation of English colonies in the New World at a time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385476485Author Ann WaldronFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674428195Author Jr Merton M SealtsFormat HardbackPage Count 211Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674732575Author Robert BrowningFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893701833Author Brian StablefordFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809530656Author James Branch CabellFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 548g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837165875Author Joseph Wood KrutchFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893704483Author Raymond Z. GallunFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 262g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674594395Author Alan S TruebloodFormat HardbackPage Count 802Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1288g

This work provides concise, accessible introductions to major writers focusing equally on their life and works. Written in a lively style to appeal to both students and readers, books in the series are ideal guides to authors and their writing. Charles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674433045Author George SeferisFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 349g

Harold Pinter is one of the most important writers in English of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. This brief biography offers fresh insights into his life and work, concentrating on the themes, patterns, relationships, ideas and...

Borges -- Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer, whose tales of fantasy and dream-worlds are classics of the 20th-century world literature - was profoundly influenced by European culture, English literature, and thinkers such as Berkeley...

This biography offers the most complete and accurate portrait to date of the writer Caroline Gordon (1895-1981). Viewing Gordon's life in the context of female literary tradition, Nancylee Novell Jonza reclaims Gordon's integrity, individuality, and...

Based on years of research and thousands of notes left by John Bennett, Mr. Skylark is an unusually intimate biography of a pivotal figure in the Charleston Renaissance, the brief period between the two World Wars that first witnessed many of the...

The first of a planned two-volume biography, Conrad Aiken: Poet of White Horse Vale follows Aiken's early life from his birth in 1889 to 1925 when he stood on the threshold of both nervous breakdown and poetic success. It was then that Aiken began to...

Alone in the Dawn is the first full-length study of life and work of Adelaide Crapsey, an American poet who lived at the same time and often in the same places as Gertrude Stein, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, and Virginia Woolf, but...

An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955) struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity, a...

This work is a collection texts which document the lives and accomplishments of two of America's significant social and politaical reformers. This fist volume recounts a quarter of a century of staunch commitmnet to political change leading up to the...

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was the quintessential European intellectual between the two world wars. Historian, philosopher, literary critic, student of language and culture, and journalist, the independent scholar was forever trying to define himself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806512280Author Lawrence SutinFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Citadel PressPublisher Kensington Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807070390Author Charles CalhounFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

American drama critic George Jean Nathan once expressed a hope in a "Suggestion for a Biography" for The American Mercury: "A book I should like to read--and doubtless there are thousands of ex-youngsters of the 1800's and early 1890's who...

Devoted wife and mother. Acclaimed novelist, illustrator, and interpreter of the American West. At a time when society expected women to concentrate on family and hearth, Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938) published twelve novels, four short story...

Melding past and present into a moving narrative, Mary Clearman Blew imaginatively recreates the dry, dusty, sparsely populated Montana of the early homesteaders and of her aunt Imogene's young womanhood. Striving to understand why her aunt chose a life...

James A. Michener was one of the most beloved storytellers of our time, captivating readers with sweeping historical plots that educated and entertained. In this first full-length biography of the private as well as the public Michener, Stephen J. May...