Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Incoming Resources
- Children's authors and illustrators too good to miss, biographical sketches and bibliographies, Sharron L. McElmeel
- 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
- James Baldwin, living in fire, Bill V. Mullen
- Looking back, a book of memories, Lois Lowry
- The journey home, some words in defense of the American West, Edward Abbey ; ill. by Jim Stiles
- The discomfort zone, a personal history, Jonathan Franzen
- A drinking life, by Pete Hamill
- As I knew him, my dad, Rod Serling, Anne Serling
- The chicken chronicles, sitting with the angels who have returned with my memories : Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe : a memoir, Alice Walker
- Black boy, (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth, Richard Wright ; foreword by John Edgar Wideman ; afterword by Malcolm Wright
- Writer, sailor, soldier, spy, Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures, 1935-1961, Nicholas Reynolds
- Mom & me & mom, Maya Angelou
- American rhapsody, writers, musicians, movie stars, and one great building, Claudia Roth Pierpont
- Philip Roth, the biography, Blake Bailey
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider, the story of E.B. White, Barbara Herkert ; illustrated by Lauren Castillo
- Hemingway and his world, by A.E. Hotchner
- Tomie dePaola, his art & his stories, by Barbara Elleman
- Flannery, a life of Flannery O'Connor, Brad Gooch
- Party of the century, the fabulous story of Truman Capote and his black and white ball, Deborah Davis
- The woman who watches over the world, a native memoir, Linda Hogan
- Sempre Susan, a memoir of Susan Sontag, Sigrid Nunez
- The man who wrote the perfect novel, John Williams, Stoner, and the writing life, Charles J. Shields
- Here if you need me, a true story, Kate Braestrup
- Later, my life at the edge of the world, Paul Lisicky
- The best of us, a memoir, Joyce Maynard
- In bed with Gore Vidal, hustlers, Hollywood, and the private world of an American master, Tim Teeman
- My reading life, Pat Conroy ; drawings by Wendell Minor
- Sontag, her life and work, Benjamin Moser
- Under magnolia, a Southern memoir, Frances Mayes
- Eat your mind, the radical life and work of Kathy Acker, Jason McBride
- Ernesto, the untold story of Hemingway in revolutionary Cuba, Andrew Feldman
- Burroughs, the movie, Pinball London ; directed by Howard Brookner ; producers, Howard Brookner, Alan Yentob
- Hemingway in Africa, the last safari, Christopher Ondaatje
- My journey with Maya, Tavis Smiley with David Ritz
- The draw, a memoir, Lee Siegel
- Thanks for waiting, the joy (& weirdness) of being a late bloomer, Doree Shafrir
- Falling, a daughter, a father, and a journey back, Elisha Cooper
- 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
- Green hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway ; decorations by Edward Shenton
- Secret historian, the life and times of Samuel Steward, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade, Justin Spring
- 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
- My Venice and other essays, Donna Leon
- Sympathy for the devil, four decades of friendship with Gore Vidal, Michael Mewshaw
- Under Magnolia, a southern memoir, Frances Mayes
- Lies my mother never told me, a memoir, Kaylie Jones
- My foreign cities, a memoir, Elizabeth Scarboro
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