Biography: writers

A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAIt is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage son Guy, to finish university in Ghana.

THE RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Gobsmacking' The Times'Luscious' Mail on Sunday'Delectable .

Since her death, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking poetry as exemplified by Ariel.

You're about to turn thirty, all your friends are getting engaged and pregnant - and your body-clock is ticking.

While composing what would become his most enduring and popular book, Charlotte's Web, E.

Ein Klassiker der Exilliteratur - eine literarische Wiederentdeckung.

'[W]hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (.

Winner of the Children's Literature Association's 2014 Honor Book AwardCrockett Johnson (born David Johnson Leisk, 1906-1975) and Ruth Krauss (1901-1993) were a husband-and-wife team that created such popular children's books as The Carrot Seed and How to Make an Earthquake.

Life Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing biography, autobiography and memoir.

Complete with fresh perspectives, and drawing on the latest scholarship and biographical sources, The Life of D.

A full and revealing biography of one of the century's greatest English writers and an icon to a generation.

From the South Bronx projects to the boardroom at only nineteen years old, Cin Fabr ran with the wolves of Wall Street.

Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSelected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the GuardianWhen Ngugi wa Thiong o arrives at the prestigious Makerere University, it embodies all the potential and excitement of the early 1960s.

Vom Bauernbub zum gefeierten Volksdichter - Felix Mitterer erzählt sein bewegtes Leben.

In 1938 Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover the state of the country and its people in the aftermath of the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles.

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'There are good publishers and there are great publishers.

In 1922, following a decade of political ferment and much bloodshed, the Irish Free State was established, became stabilised, and developed along conservative lines.

Richard Tempest examines Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's evolution as a literary artist from his early autobiographical novel Love the Revolution to the experimental mega-saga The Red Wheel, and beyond.

The children of an influential Ojibwe-Anglo family, Jane Johnston and her brother George were already accomplished writers when the Indian agent Henry Rowe Schoolcraft arrived in Sault Ste.

Mark Twains final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is alandmark publication in American literature.

Seit Jahrhunderten fasziniert William Shakespeare die Welt mit seinen unvergleichlichen Dramen und Sonetten.

In this examination of Solzhenitsyn and his work, Lee Congdon explores the consequences of the atheistic socialism that drove the Russian revolutionary movement.

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author "e;gives us flesh and blood Whitman in this fine and sensitive biography"e; (The Boston Globe).

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When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe.

A raw, unflinching, convention-defying memoir of substance abuse, depression, and guilt In his genre-bending memoir, Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm, delves into not only his own tormenting struggle with depression and alcoholism but also the pathos inherent in American society.

George Ehrlich Award Recipient In the summer of 1917, Ernest Hemingway was an eighteen-year-old high school graduate unsure of his future.

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A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day.

'If men could see us as we really are, they would be amazed', wrote Charlotte Bront , the outwardly conventional parson's daughter who had rarely met any men beyond those of the church or classroom by the time Jane Eyre was published in 1847.

WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARA CBC BOOK OF THE YEARThe extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman - and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia's history.

Mark Twain's literary works have intrigued and inspired readers from the late 1860s to the present.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAY MCINERNEYJohn Cheever's letters offer a tantalising glimpse into the life of a writer.

Austin Mardon is a respected advocate for the mentally ill.

The classic book on William Blake as prophet of the New AgeWilliam Blake (1757-1827) inhabited a remarkable inner world, one that he brought vividly to life in his poetry, painting, and printmaking.

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When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become the most influential French philosopher since the end of World War II.

This book, Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munshi, is the most comprehensive, multi-disciplinary studies on Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, widely known as Munshi Abdullah (1796-1854).

See inside the gardens where literary giantsfrom Tolstoy to Agatha Christie created some of their finest worksin this visually stunning and fascinatingbook.

This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creative writing and literary criticism, to offer new insights into the writer, his work and his legacy.