Biography: writers

The life of Nikos Kazantzakis-the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ-was as colorful and eventful as his fiction.

A magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our timeJoseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language-and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century.

The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayFor readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale, the idea of a perfect society may sound more sinister than enticing.

Dostoevsky's Democracy offers a major reinterpretation of the life and work of the great Russian writer by closely reexamining the crucial transitional period between the early works of the 1840s and the important novels of the 1860s.

This WWII memoir tells the remarkable story of a Ukrainian girl's perilous adventures and coming of age amid the chaos of war.

"e;[An] excellent biography of Austen.

Anna Wickham's life is characterized by the turbulent, burgeoning feminism of the early 20th century.

The life of Russia's greatest dramatist and storyteller examined within the context of the evolution of his art.

This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981)--author of the 1958 national best-seller Only in America--illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s.

Ogden Nash was a rare poet.

The daughter of an illustrious Russian general, Lou von Salome left her home in the heart of Tsarist Russia to conquer intellectual Europe at the tender age of 18.

On a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Greenwich Village bohemians gathered in the summer of 1916, Susan Glaspell was inspired by a sensational murder trial to write Trifles, a play about two women who hide a Midwestern farm wife's motive for murdering her abusive husband.

Shakspere's history plays are more than dramatized history lessons.

Hugo Award winning writer James Gunn (1923-2020) has been called "e;the last Golden Age author"e; of science fiction.

It is nearly two centuries since the first quarto of Hamlet was rediscovered, yet there is still no consensus about its relationship to the second quarto.

When we pick up a copy of a Shakespeare play, we assume that we hold in our hands an original record of his writing.

Fifty-three individuals present a prismatic view of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and his work through anecdote and insight.

This collection of travel books, essays, speeches, letters and autobiographical writings illustrates the other side of the man known as Mark Twain.

The Great Gatsby has sold 25 million copies worldwide and sells 500,000 copies annually.

Named by Boston's NPR News Station as one of the Best Books of 2016In 1959, the most famous literary figure of his time set out in the twilight of his life to recapture his early success in the 1920s.

His mother was against it, but he grew up to be a cowboy anyway.

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.

Two of the twentieth century's most fascinating figures, Ernest Hemingway and Ho Chi Minh, grappling with a world in which Western culture and their respective governments were failing them, came to Paris at the same time in the 1920s.

By the time of his death in 1989 at the age of forty-eight, Bruce Chatwin had become one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century.

Longtime fans of Richs writing will welcome this engaging and thoughtful biography of her life.

In what could be boldly called a new genre, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness, on 85 years of life.

Great blue herons, yellow birches, damselflies, and beavers are among the talismans by which Bill Roorbach uncovers a natural universe along the stream that runs by his house in Farmington, Maine.

What do rock stars, Nobel laureates, bestselling novelists, astronauts, and attorneys have in common?

The first book-length study of the life and writings of the critically acclaimed Southern writerRandall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and his collection of stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was a nominee for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction, and named a New York Times Notable Book.

A Vivid Visual Journey Through the Life of Nobel Prize-Winning Author Hermann HesseHermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography offers a treasure trove of previously undiscovered photographic and textual material, shedding new light on the life and works of this exceptional German author.

Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge.

A forensic psychiatrist's second opinion on the conditions that led to Ernest Hemingway's suicide, "e;mixing biography, literature and medical analysis"e; (The Washington Post).

An examination of the British author's use of levity and wit in his writing reveals the uses of joy and humor in Christianity.

As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.

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Victor Hugo is best known most for his epic novels Les Miserables and The Hunchback Of Notre Dame.

"e;Bradshaw was a famously charming man, and his lounge-lizard urbanity fully suffuses his prose.

Elizabeth Gaskell is equally well known as Mrs Gaskell.

Elizabeth Gaskell is equally well known as Mrs Gaskell.

This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century's most innovative and influential novelists.

This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth.

Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy.

Mary Robinson was born in Bristol, England on 27th November 1757.

Louise Erdrich is one of the most critically and commercially successful Native American writers.

Max Blecher's work of autobiographical fiction employs poetic prose to explore his ideas of self-identity and the body.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;A BOY'S TOWN ADVENTURES - Complete Series: The Flight of Pony Baker, Boy Life, A Boy's Town & Years of My Youth (Illustrated)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

'It is always a bore being ahead of one's time.

"e;This magnum opus confirms David Trinidad's place in the poetic firmament: he is simply the best we have.

In the foreword to Li-Young Lee's first book, Rose (BOA Editions, 1986), Gerald Stern wrote, ';What characterizes Li-Young Lee's poetry is a certain kind of humility, a kind of cunning, a love of plain speech, a search for wisdom and understanding.