Biography: writers

My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be seen talking to, but he left doors open as he passed.

Life story of Roald Dahl, World's No.

Katherine Mansfield is the celebrated biography be bestselling author Claire Tomalin'One of the best biographies I have ever read: a perfect match of author and subject.

Highlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of the women's health movement, illuminating the struggles and successes of bringing feminist dreams into clinical spaces.

A new account of the brilliant and prolific Danish writer whose works captivated readers across EuropeRarely does an American or European child grow up without an introduction to Hans Christian Andersen's "e;The Ugly Duckling,"e; "e;The Princess and the Pea,"e; or "e;Thumbelina.

"e;How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?

This book draws together analysis of  class, gender, ethnicity and processes of migration in the context of family-school relationships.

A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influencesthe American poet Elizabeth Bishop.

At the time of his death in 1935, Edwin Arlington Robinson was regarded as the leading American poet-the equal of Frost and Stevens.

George Robert Gissing was born on November 22nd, 1857 in Wakefield, Yorkshire.

George Robert Gissing was born on November 22nd, 1857 in Wakefield, Yorkshire.

The Well of Loneliness is probably the most famous lesbian novel ever written, and certainly the most widely read.

Kenneth Rexroth called Denise Levertov (1923-1997) "e;the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, .

In Women in Psychiatry, 21 accomplished women psychiatrists in private practice, teaching institutions, hospitals, public health treatment programs, and leadership positions reveal both the challenges and rewards of being in a wide array of professional positions.

The Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902-90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs.

Telling the story of Kafka's final years as never before-the third volume in the acclaimed definitive biographyThis volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924-a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end.

A comprehensive and authoritative collection of Thoreau quotations on more than 150 subjects, from beauty to wisdomFew writers are more quotable than Henry David Thoreau.

"e;No author who lives in Greece,"e; writes Peter Bien, "e;can avoid politics.

'Tom stands among our great artists .

An insightful look at the life and work of the extraordinary popular Southern writer.

"e;Does an admirable job of examining Capote as a writer whose work reflects America of the late 1940s and 1950s more deeply than previously thought.

In 1944, the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow from the forest where he had spent the winter among partisan fighters.

In 1944, the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow from the forest where he had spent the winter among partisan fighters.

Al Jennings lived a life more akin to tall tales than reality.

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The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays.

'The book I've been waiting for my entire life' DOLLY ALDERTONIs it possible that life without romantic love isn't so bad?

WINNER OF 2024 EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD (BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL BOOK)THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE H.

Step into the extraordinary life of the man who made an impact as an observer wherever he lived, and went on to become the leading western interpreter of Japan and Japanese culturea position he still occupies today.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Complete Illustrated Edition) brings poetry, biography, and visual interpretation into a compact encounter with one of British Romanticism's most consequential imaginations.

John Lyly was born in Kent in 1553 or 1554, the eldest of eight children.

" Thomas Dixon has a notorious reputation as the writer of the source material for D.

A Passionate Apprentice comprises the first years of Virginia Woolf's Journal - from 1879 to 1909.

WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD A fascinating look at the impact of country home-making on the lives and work of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann.

Debut work in English, a literary memoir, by Sergio Pitol, maestro of Mexican literature, winner of the 2005 Cervantes Prize.

Dieses eBook: "Ernst Weiß: Autobiographische Werke (Notizen über mich selbst + Reportage und Dichtung + Briefe + Anmerkung zum dramatischen Schaffen und mehr)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Nacido en 1947, hijo del escrito William S.

Gurba grows up queer, Chicana, and take no prisoners.

Dieses eBook: "Seit ich zuerst sie sah (Autobiografischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Dieses eBook: "Bergheimat: Erlebtes und Erlauschtes" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Testamento y codicilo es el testamento personal de Calderón de la Barca, sorprendente por su claridad de ideas y por la frialdad con que destina a otros todo tipo de pertenencias personales.

Testamento y codicilo es el testamento personal de Calderón de la Barca, sorprendente por su claridad de ideas y por la frialdad con que destina a otros todo tipo de pertenencias personales.

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Romane + Erzählungen + Gedichte + Autobiografie" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

June Jordan was born on July 9, 1936, in Harlem, New York, to Mildred and Granville Jordan, Jamaican natives.

The Complete Autobiographical Works of S.

'The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning' gathers the intimate correspondences between two of Victorian England's most celebrated poets, offering an unprecedented glimpse into their passionate and intellectually rigorous relationship.

Gregory Benford is perhaps best known as the author of Benford's law of controversy: "e;Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

An entirely new portrait of Keats, rich with insights into the torments of his life and the imaginative sources of his works This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure.

From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries.

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