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The life of Grace Metalious is the material of which modern novels are made. This juicy biography is the story of a woman out of step with her times, ... More

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This is the highly anticipated biography of the author of such classics as "Strangers on a Train" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley." The result is a ... More

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Novelist Terry McMillan is widely considered the preeminent voice of young, professional, African-American women today. "Lively, opinionated, and ... More

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Published to glowing reviews in hardcover in 1994, this richly illustrated biography -- which Louis S. Auchincloss calls "the best book on Edith ... More

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Published to glowing reviews in hardcover in 1994, this richly illustrated biography -- which Louis S. Auchincloss calls "the best book on Edith ... More

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A literary event: the first publication of letters from one of America's most consistently admired writers. Cather, wanting only her work to speak ... More

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The coming of age of a young writer is told through her intimate journals--from the "New York Times" bestselling novelist and three-time National ... More

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These interviews and profiles tell the story of one woman's discovery of her coal-mining hometown as a potential "literary place" and how she used ... More

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These interviews and profiles tell the story of one woman's discovery of her coal-mining hometown as a potential "literary place" and how she used ... More

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Reed's new biography draws on new material to map out the enigmatic life and times of one of Britain's most extraordinary novelists.This biography of ... More

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In 1946, at the age of 41, Janice Holt Giles wrote her first novel. Thee years later, when her sixth novel appeared, Janice Holt Giles's works had ... More

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In her candid autobiography, the mega-author becomes the heroine of her own memorable story, which chronicles her beginnings as a virginal young ... More

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This an American writer".--The New York Times Book Review.

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Born in 1918 into a working-class Edinburgh family, Muriel Spark became the epitome of literary chic and one of the great writers of the twentieth ... More

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From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life -- in good times and bad -- that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a ... More

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"Reading My Father" is an intimate, moving and beautifully written portrait of the novelist William Styron by his daughter, Alexandra Styron.

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Not since Mary Karr's "The Liar's Club" has a mother-daughter story captured so piercingly the mysteries of childhood. In 1959, when Sandra Scofield ... More

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Long out of print and now brought back with a substantial and provocative feminist introduction, The Woman Within is a haunting and carefully crafted ... More

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An unbearably moving, intensely passionate, deeply personal account of life as seen through the eyes of one of America's best-loved novelists. 'When ... More

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How does a girl from Grundy, Virginia, become a successful writer? The interviews and profiles in Conversations with Lee Smith tell the story of one ... More

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In this extraordinary autobiography -- now a classic of the genre -- one of the literary community's most distinguished voices brings all of her ... More

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In this seminal biography, Heller traces the controversial author's life, from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years ... More

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The "reigning queen of glitz-and-glamour" ("Booklist") is frank, open, and funny about her transformation from virginal Wellesley graduate Judy ... More

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