Biography: writers

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"e;Remembering Wordsworth"e; is a fantastic collection of essays and other assorted writings by various authors discussing the life and work of this seminal poet, not to be missed by lovers of poetry and those with an interest Wordsworth's life both public and private.

The Waste Land is the greatest poem of the age.

Here is a unique collection of fifty years of essays chosen to form an unconventional autobiography and capstone to his remarkable career as the conservative writer par excellence.

The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary historyA major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (18721906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation.

23 Glückwünsche an Uwe Timm.

"e;Threading the subtle seam between what lives and what remains, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause succeeds in conjuring the poetry of Marcel Marceau's performance as both a character on stage and in history.

Die Zeit der ersten Wiederentdeckung Walter Benjamins ist vorüber.

This collection of essays offers crucial and luminous insights into one of the best-known Czech authors, Milan Kundera, including his lesser known works.

Retracing my mother's footsteps in search of women's freedom1974.

An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of ParisIn this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and ultimately triumphant eras, Agnes Poirier unspools the stories of the poets, writers, painters, and philosophers whose lives collided to extraordinary effect between 1940 and 1950.

Der große portugiesische Dichter und Denker Fernando Pessoa gibt Einblick in seine schwer zu fassende komplexe Persönlichkeit.

Controversy surrounded Zola during his life-time, and controversy has followed him ever since.

Este libro ofrece una aproximación interdisciplinaria de la vida y obra literaria de la escritora ilustrada María Lorenza de los Ríos, marquesa de Fuerte-Híjar (1761-1821).

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year that Sir Ian McKellen called a shocking tale of heroes and villainsilluminating and upsetting in equal measure.

Die erste Biografie über den Bestsellerautor Johannes Mario SimmelIn dieser Biografie, die anlässlich Simmels 100.

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The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography in Letters is a narrative and epistolary biography drawn from the unpublished lifelong correspondence exchanged among four brothers: Charles Chauncy, Edward Bliss, Ralph Waldo, and William Emerson.

A beautiful biography, thoroughly researched from family records, this biography looks past the success of her books to see the real women.

The title of this book, Derivative Lives, alludes to the challenge of finding one's way within the contemporary market of virtually limitless information and claims to veracity.

A stunning new memoir from one of Australia's most highly acclaimed writersBeginning with the disastrous events of the night before her fortieth birthday, in Second Half First Drusilla Modjeska looks back on the experiences of the past thirty years that have shaped her writing, her reading and the way she has lived.

Henry Dumas (1934-1968) was a writer who did not live to see most of his fiction and poetry in print.

The story of a notorious New York eccentric and the journalist who chronicled his life: “A little masterpiece of observation and storytelling” (Ian McEwan).

«Novalis, escribió el filósofo Georg Lukács, es el único poeta auténtico de la escuela romántica.

A comprehensive biographical and critical reading of the works of American poet and memoirist Maya Angelou (1928-2014).

Andre Siegfried (1875-1959) was a leading figure in French academic and cultural life for over five decades.

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

SCHRIFTSTELLER IN DER RIEGE VON FRISCH, BACHMANN, BERNHARD, HANDKEAls einer der großen europäischen Autoren der deutschsprachigen Nachkriegsliteratur lebt Paul Nizon heute zurückgezogen in Paris.

Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anais Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be ';the One,' the lover who would satisfy her insatiable hunger for connection.

Paul Auster provides the first extended analysis of Auster's essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects.

This volume of correspondence, the last in a three-volume edition, spans a pivotal moment in American history: the mid-twentieth century, from the beginning of World War II, through the years of rebuilding and uneasy peace that followed, to the election of President John F.

This mesmerizing story of playwright and author Joe Orton’s brief and remarkable life was named book of the year by Truman Capote and Nobel Prize–winning novelist Patrick White Told with precision and extensive detail, Prick Up Your Ears is the engrossing biography of playwright and novelist Joe Orton.

This is the extraordinary story of Elisabeth Beresford, creator of The Wombles, the furry, fun-loving recyclers of rubbish which became a children's publishing and television sensation in the 1970s.

The beautifully written first biography of one of the world's finest twentieth-century poets Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) was one of the most celebrated American poets of the latter twentieth century, and his works have touched millions of lives around the world.

As seen in the new movie The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep, here is the captivating, inside story of the woman who piloted the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media.

The Birch Bark Books of Simon Pokagon is a collection of articles and legends written for and about the Potawatomi tribe by Simon Pokagon.

Original, bold and always funny, Hanif Kureishi is one of Britain's most popular, provocative and versatile writers.

A captivating biography that celebrates the audacious, inspiring life and works of John Milton, revealing how he speaks to our times.

A searing, inventive memoir that interrogates misogyny, heroism and women's power in an often-unsafe world through the lens of Vicky's Foster's own traumatic background.

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her.

MATTHE\V ARNOLD is undoubtedly in poetry, and I believe also in some of his prose, a classic.

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.

This groundbreaking volume explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens's writing and personal life.

The first ever history of autobiographical writing in Ireland, based on original scholarship, and structured around key subgenres, themes, texts, and writers.

A unique portrait of Vladimir Nabokov told through the lens of the years he spent in a land that enchanted him, America.