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Americo Paredes (1915-99) is one of the seminal figures in Mexican American studies. With this first book-length biography of Paredes, author Jose R. ... More

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One of the most beguiling and captivating figures of the 20th century, Zora Neale Hurston gained fame as a bestselling author, anthropologist, ... More

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A biography of J. Frank Dobie, educator, writer, professor at the University of Texas, and collector of folklore of the Southwest.

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This evocative, sympathetic biography illuminates the events of Hemingway's vigorous life, his experiences in two World Wars and the Spanish Civil ... More

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" I mean to live and die by my own mind," Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a ... More

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The classic, bestselling memoir by the distinguished man of letters, reissued to celebrate the centenary of Ernest Hemingway's birth. Illustrations.

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For more than 50 years, Norman Mailer was at the forefront of American letters and popular culture. In this work, originally published to acclaim 20 ... More

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One of America's most celebrated writers takes you home to a family and a small town so funny and unpredictable, you'd wish it were your own. "As ... More

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The first Texas-based writer to gain national attention, J. Frank Dobie proved that authentic writing springs easily from the native soil of Texas ... More

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This biography traces the evolution of Edmund Wilson, the priggish young scholar, whom e.e. cummings called "the man with the iron necktie". The most ... More

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A literary event of great importance: the journals--begun in the late 1940s and continued through three decades--of one of the great American writers ... More

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A man who let who let his own insides get eaten out by the diseases of fame had dreamed new books on this boat. He'd taught his sons to reel in ... More

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A biography of one of the 20th century's most influential writers.

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Abundantly illustrated, this volume documents the life and career of the man "who made the English language new" and "changed the rhythms of the way ... More

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Collections of interviews with notable modern writers

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This book provides a basic introduction to the life and writings of Zora Neale Hurston.

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