Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Incoming Resources
- This trifling distinction, reminiscences from down east, by John Gould
- Vladimir Nabokov, Jane Grayson
- Off the road, my years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg, Carolyn Cassady
- Iceberg Slim, portrait of a pimp, Phase 4 Films and Ice-T present; director, Jorge Hinojosa
- Wit's end, days and nights of the Algonquin Round Table, James R. Gaines
- The woman warrior, memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, Maxine Hong Kingston
- Hemingway, the Paris years, Michael Reynolds
- Robert Cormier, banned, challenged, and censored, Wendy Hart Beckman
- James Baldwin, the legacy, edited by Quincy Troupe
- William Maxwell, a literary life, Barbara Burkhardt
- Kitchen confidential, Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain
- Confessions of a failed Southern lady, Florence King
- Writing about your life, a journey into the past, William Zinsser
- Biography today, profiles of people of interest to young readers, Laurie Lanzen Harris, executive editor, Author series, Vol. 1, 1995
- The Avocado Drive zoo, at home with my family and the creatures we've loved, Earl Hamner
- U and I, a true story, by Nicholson Baker
- Hellman and Hammett, the legendary passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett, Joan Mellen
- Secret historian, the life and times of Samuel Steward, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade, Justin Spring
- Travels with Puff, a gentle game of life and death, by Richard Bach ; photos by Dan Nickens
- Good dog. Stay, Anna Quindlen
- Less than a treason, Hemingway in Paris, Peter Griffin
- Mom & me & mom, Maya Angelou
- Ezra Jack Keats, his life and art, Weston Woods presents
- A Hemingway odyssey, special places in his life, H. Lea Lawrence
- Author Kit: Ezra Jack Keats
- The Rolling Stone book of the Beats, the Beat generation and American culture, edited by Holly George-Warren
- You are a complete disappointment, a triumphant memoir of failed expectations, Mike Edison
- Gone to the woods, surviving a lost childhood, Gary Paulsen ; [pictures by Anna and Varvara Kendel]
- Mom & me & mom, Maya Angelou
- The Pat Conroy cookbook, recipes and stories of my life, Pat Conroy with Suzanne Williamson Pollak
- The world is my home, a memoir, James A. Michener
- Letter to my daughter, Maya Angelou
- Sorrow is the only faithful one, the life of Owen Dodson, James V. Hatch ; foreword by Arnold Rampersad
- Leon Uris, life of a best seller, Ira Nadel
- John Cheever, by Lynne Waldeland ; [editor of this vol., Warren French]
- Cheever, a life, Blake Bailey
- Mom & me & mom, Maya Angelou
- Lord of a visible world, an autobiography in letters, H.P. Lovecraft ; edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz
- Shockaholic, Carrie Fisher
- Jack Kerouac, king of the beats, directed by John Antonelli
- Shirley Jackson, a rather haunted life, Ruth Franklin
- Everybody into the pool, true tales, Beth Lisick
- The awakener, a memoir of Kerouac and the fifties, Helen Weaver
- Mencken on Mencken, a new collection of autobiographical writings, edited by S.T. Joshi
- Mary McCarthy, a life, Carol Gelderman
- A world of light, Floyd Skloot
- Goodbye darkness, [a memoir of the Pacific War], William Manchester
- The diary of Anaïs Nin, Edited, and with an introd., by Gunther Stuhlmann
- Lies my mother never told me, a memoir, Kaylie Jones
- A world of light, portraits and celebrations, by May Sarton
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