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Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In 2010, Ted Geltner drove to Gainesville, Florida, to pay a visit to Harry Crews and ask the legendary author if he would be willing to be the subject of a literary biography. His health rapidly deteriorating, Crews told Geltner he was on board and would even sit for interviews and tell his stories one last time. "Ask me anything you want, bud," Crews said. "But you'd better do it quick." The result is Blood, Bone, and Marrow, the first full-length...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
For John Steinbeck, who hated the telephone, letter-writing was a preparation for work and a natural way for him to communicate his thoughts on people he liked and hated; on marriage, women, and children; on the condition of the world; and on his progress in learning his craft. Opening with letters written during Steinbeck's early years in California, and closing with a 1968 note written in Sag Herbor, New York, Steinbeck: A Life in Letters reveals...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An autobiography through the previously unpublished letters of the renowned author of Invisible Man, with insights into the riddle of American identity, the writer's craft, and his own life and work. Over six decades (1933 to 1993), Ralph Ellison's extensive and revealing correspondence remarkably details his aspirations and anxieties, confidence and uncertainties throughout his personal and professional life. From early notes to his mother, as...
Author
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Commemorating the centenary of his birth, contains over 2,500 entries regarding the American author. The reference summarizes all of his novels, short stories, plays, and nonfiction books and articles. It also describes events in his life that impacted his work; writers who influenced and were influenced by him; love affairs, marriages, and other important women; film adaptations; and other matters. Now retired (English, Ohio Northern U.), Oliver...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wherever you look, there's trouble and wonder, pain and beauty, restoration and darkness--sometimes all at once. Yet amid the confusion, if you look carefully, in nature or in the kitchen, in ordinariness or in mystery, beyond the emotional muck we all slog through, you'll find it eventually: a path, some light to see by, moments of insight, courage, or buoyancy. In other words, grace. Lamott knows and lives by this belief, most of the time. In these...
Author
Series
Cat Abroad series volume 1
Publisher
Random House Large Print in association with Crown Publishers, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Norton, the cat of a cosmopolitan book editor, travels with his master around the globe working his feline charm on everyone.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's healing journey after a traumatizing sexual assault at infamous St. Paul's boarding school, describing how she helped police uncover proof of the school's institutionalized mandate of silence. This revelation launched Crawford on an extraordinary inquiry into the ways gender, privilege, and power shaped her experience as a girl at the gates of America's elite. Her investigation looks beyond the sprawling playing fields and soaring...
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Jennifer Kroot's documentary about the creator of Tales of the City moves nimbly between playful and poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. Maupin offers a disarmingly frank look at the journey that took him from the jungles of Vietnam to the bathhouses of '70's San Francisco to the front line of the American culture war.
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate and illuminating glimpse at Ernest Hemingway as a father, revealed through a selection of letters he and his son Patrick exchanged over the span of twenty years. In the public imagination, Ernest Hemingway looms larger than life. But the actual person behind the legend has long remained elusive. Now, his son Patrick shares the letters they exchanged over two decades, offering a glimpse into how one of America's most iconic writers interacted...
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