Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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- In Pharaoh's army, memories of the lost war, Tobias Wolff
- One drop, my father's hidden life--a story of race and family secrets, Bliss Broyard
- Off the road, my years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg, Carolyn Cassady
- Shirley Jackson, a rather haunted life, Ruth Franklin
- Smash cut, a memoir of Howard & art & the '70s & the '80s, Brad Gooch
- All God's children need traveling shoes, Maya Angelou. --
- Under Magnolia, a southern memoir, Frances Mayes
- The best of us, a memoir, Joyce Maynard
- Between them, remembering my parents, Richard Ford
- Maya's song, written by Renée Watson ; illustrated by Bryan Collier
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider, the story of E.B. White, Barbara Herkert ; illustrated by Lauren Castillo
- Here if you need me, a true story, Kate Braestrup
- I know why the caged bird sings, Maya Angelou
- You don't have to say you love me, a memoir, Sherman Alexie
- Sailor and fiddler, reflections of a 100-year-old author, Herman Wouk
- Dad's maybe book, Tim O'Brien
- Becoming Madeleine, a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters, Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Léna Roy
- The cooked seed, a memoir, Anchee Min
- Gone to the woods, surviving a lost childhood, by Gary Paulsen ; pictures by Anna and Varvara Kendel
- The lost landscape, a writer's coming of age, Joyce Carol Oates
- Orion on the dunes, a biography of Henry Beston, by Daniel G. Payne
- The discomfort zone, a personal history, Jonathan Franzen
- Serling, the rise and twilight of TV's last angry man, Gordon F. Sander ; with a foreword by Ron Simon
- Blind man's bluff, a memoir, James Tate Hill
- Sometimes the magic works, lessons from a writing life, Terry Brooks
- Sontag, her life and work, Benjamin Moser
- Point to point navigation, a memoir, 1964 to 2006, Gore Vidal
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake, Anna Quindlen
- The way forward is with a broken heart, Alice Walker
- The thing about life is that one day you'll be dead, by David Shields
- Jack Kerouac, king of the Beats, a portrait, Barry Miles
- Sometimes madness is wisdom, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald : a marriage, Kendall Taylor
- Hemingway at war, Ernest Hemingway's adventures as a World War II correspondent, Terry Mort
- In search of our mothers' gardens, womanist prose, by Alice Walker
- The writing life, Annie Dillard
- Women of the Beat generation, the writers, artists, and muses at the heart of revolution, Brenda Knight ; foreword by Anne Waldman ; afterword by Ann Charters
- On writing, a memoir of the craft, by Stephen King
- Becoming Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination, Brian Jay Jones
- A drinking life
- Autumn in Venice, Ernest Hemingway and his last muse, Andrea Di Robilant
- Letter to my daughter, Maya Angelou
- A man without a country, Kurt Vonnegut ; edited by Daniel Simon
- Hungry heart, adventures in life, love, and writing, Jennifer Weiner
- In the great green room, the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown, Amy Gary
- A song flung up to heaven, Maya Angelou
- Travels with Charley, in search of America, John Steinbeck ; with an introduction by Jay Parini
- Hemingway., a Florentine Films production ; directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced by Sarah Botstein, Lynn Novick, Ken Burns, DVD/Widescreen
- Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude, written by Jonah Winter ; illustrated by Calef Brown
- Shockaholic, Carrie Fisher
- Hole in my life, a memoir by Jack Gantos, Jack Gantos
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