Biography: writers

Now known worldwide for his horror creations in best-selling books and popular film adaptations, Stephen King spent years in obscurity trying to find his voice and his audience.

Mehr als märchenhaft: Wer war die Familie Grimm?

A critical biography of a modern Japanese literary giant, whose brilliant career ended in a spectacular ritual suicide.

The Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature.

The Encyclopedia of Archival Writers, 1515-2015, is a reference work that includes the profiles of authors of literature about records and archives in the Western world who have shaped the records and archives field over a span of 500 years.

An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style.

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A New York Times notable book of 2023 | A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography | Winner of the 2024 George Washington Prize"e;[An] erudite, enlightening new biography .

James McCarroll (1814-1892) was a talented Irish poet, journalist, humorist, musician, and arts critic who left his mark on nineteenth-century Canada by seemingly engaging with anything topical in every medium.

Through the eyes of a creative genius, Journey into Barbary is both an inimitable portrait of Morocco and one of the first truly modern accounts of a country that had for so long remained an enigma to generations of travellers.

This long overdue reevaluation of Jack Kerouac gives fresh perspectives on his unique literary output, his vexed relation to issues of race, class, and gender, as well as his continuing cultural afterlife.

"e;[A] raw, painful and yet occasionally comic memoir of the year and a half following the sudden death of [Roiphe's] husband.

Werner Bergengruen (1892-1964) war ein Dichter zwischen Grenzen und Zeiten.

From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Ad le Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love and the writer who chased after her more than 150 years later.

The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group.

In this first biography of Griboyedov in English, Laurence Kelly paints a vivid picture of his remarkable literary and diplomatic gifts which were nevertheless overshadowed by ill-fortune and tragedy.

Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years writing for Hollywood, but by 1945 he had all but ceased to write fiction and even abandoned his habit of keeping a diary.

Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist examines Ralph Ellison's body of work as an extended and ever-evolving expression of the author's philosophy of temporality-a philosophy synthesized from the writings of Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche that anticipates the work of Gilles Deleuze.

This portrait of a major Victorian intellectual was an important addition to scholarship on nineteenth-century British culture.

**WINNER OF A PALESTINE BOOK AWARD 2021**Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places of Mind is the first comprehensive biography of Said, one of the most controversial and celebrated intellectuals of the 20th century.

In this biography, chronological chapters follow Zora Neale Hurston's family, upbringing, education, influences, and major works, placing these experiences within the context of American history.

A towering figure on the American cultural landscape, H.

First published between 1860-1861, "e;The Uncommercial Traveller"e; is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens.

This book contains the complete texts of all known correspondence between Samuel L.

In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world's greatest writers, tells the story of the formative years which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism.

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

The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature.

In August 1937 a small group of Edith Wharton’s intimate friends gathered to pay their last respects at her funeral in France.

Conversations with Gish Jen is the first collection of interviews with the renowned contemporary American author Gish Jen (b.

“A fine, invaluable book.

A candid and surprising memoir of the early life of one of England’s most acclaimed and enduring post-WWII writers.

Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time-and placed in biographical and literary contextOn October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment.

One of science fiction's undisputed grandmasters, Frederik Pohl built an astonishing career that spanned more than seven decades.

Donald Halls remarkable life in poetry a career capped by his appointment as U.

This long overdue reevaluation of Jack Kerouac gives fresh perspectives on his unique literary output, his vexed relation to issues of race, class, and gender, as well as his continuing cultural afterlife.

Dies ist das neue Buch von Meistererzaäehler David Lodge über das Leben & Lieben des H.

From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down.

A fascinating, evocative account of 19th-century London, so well-known from Charles Dickens’ much-loved novels.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for BiographyFrom an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New England’s intellectual elite.

By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers.

A photographer's intimate view of writers' personal and creative journeysIn 1989 Susan Johann was hired to photograph Christopher Durang for a magazine article about his play Naomi in Her Living Room.

Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values.

In The Complex Image, Joseph Fichtelberg takes a twofold approach to the role of revision in significant American autobiographies.

Bert Coombes settled in south Wales in 1909, where he worked as a miner for more than forty years.

Die legendäre Karl-May-Biographie von Hans Wollschläger - ein Klassiker des Genres.

THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA TIMES Top Ten Best True Crime book: 'Groundbreaking.