Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Incoming Resources
- Wandering through life, a memoir, Donna Leon
- Geniuses together, American writers in Paris in the 1920s, Humphrey Carpenter. --
- The faith of a writer, life, craft, art, Joyce Carol Oates
- Norman Mailer, a double life, J. Michael Lennon
- Screening room, family pictures, Alan Lightman
- Capote, a biography, Gerald Clarke. --
- The best of us, a memoir, Joyce Maynard
- Shirley Jackson, a rather haunted life, Ruth Franklin
- Dr Seuss, the cat behind the hat, [the art of Dr Suess], written by Caroline M. Smith ; images compiled and edited by William W. Dreyer ... [and others]
- The mockingbird next door, life with Harper Lee, Marja Mills
- The lost landscape, a writer's coming of age, Joyce Carol Oates
- Travels with Charley, in search of America, John Steinbeck
- Orion on the dunes, a biography of Henry Beston, by Daniel G. Payne
- The discomfort zone, a personal history, Jonathan Franzen
- Unsolaced, along the way to all that is, Gretel Ehrlich
- The writing life, writers on how they think and work : a collection from the Washington Post Book World, edited and with an introduction by Marie Arana
- Cheever, a life, Blake Bailey
- Working, researching, interviewing, writing, Robert A. Caro
- The cooked seed, a memoir, Anchee Min
- Naked angels, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, John Tytell
- Unbelievable happiness and final sorrow, the Hemingway-Pfeiffer marriage, Ruth A. Hawkins
- Lonelyhearts, the screwball world of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney, Marion Meade
- Raymond Carver, a writer's life, Carol Sklenicka
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider, the story of E.B. White, Barbara Herkert ; illustrated by Lauren Castillo
- Flannery, a life of Flannery O'Connor, Brad Gooch
- Floor sample, a creative memoir, by Julia Cameron
- The woman who watches over the world, a native memoir, Linda Hogan
- Sempre Susan, a memoir of Susan Sontag, Sigrid Nunez
- Here if you need me, a true story, Kate Braestrup
- Philip Roth, the biography, Blake Bailey
- Truman Capote, in which various friends, enemies, acquaintances, and detractors recall his turbulent career, George Plimpton
- The man who wrote the perfect novel, John Williams, Stoner, and the writing life, Charles J. Shields
- My young life, a memoir, Frederic Tuten
- Burning the days, recollection, James Salter
- Between them, remembering my parents, Richard Ford
- Harp, John Gregory Dunne
- Spillane, king of pulp fiction : a biography, Max Allan Collins & James L. Traylor
- Maya's song, written by Renée Watson ; illustrated by Bryan Collier
- The talented Miss Highsmith, the secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith, Joan Schenkar
- The thing about life is that one day you'll be dead, by David Shields
- Updike, by Adam Begley
- Sometimes madness is wisdom, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald : a marriage, Kendall Taylor
- Subterranean Kerouac, the hidden life of Jack Kerouac, Ellis Amburn
- I know why the caged bird sings, Maya Angelou
- The long accomplishment, a memoir of hope and struggle in matrimony, Rick Moody
- You don't have to say you love me, a memoir, Sherman Alexie
- Gertrude Stein has arrived, the homecoming of a literary legend, Roy Morris Jr
- Sailor and fiddler, reflections of a 100-year-old author, Herman Wouk
- Stories I tell myself, growing up with Hunter S. Thompson, Juan F. Thompson
- Sometimes you have to lie, the life and times of Louise Fitzhugh, renegade author of Harriet the spy, Leslie Brody
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