PROSE Award for Excellence in Biography and Autobiography Finalist 2020 One is not born a woman, but becomes one , Simone de BeauvoirA symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation.
Inspired Traveller's Guides: Literary Places takes you on an enlightening journey through the key locations of literature's best and brightest authors, movements and moments brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork.
This passionate and monumental biography reassesses the life and legacy of one of the most significant cultural figures of the twentieth century Unevenly respected, easily hated, almost always suspected of being inferior to his reputation, Jean Cocteau has often been thought of as a jack-of-all-trades, master of none.
Born of illustrious New England stock, Rachel Field was a National Book Award–winning novelist, a Newbery Medal–winning children’s writer, a poet, playwright, and rising Hollywood success in the early twentieth century.
From the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a ';vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic' (The New York Times) memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs.
Showcases nineteen nationally known writers who have roots in Alabama In The Remembered Gate, nationally prominent fiction writers, essayists, and poets recall how their formative years in Alabama shaped them as people and as writers.
The book will focus upon the growth of a Hindi Dalit literary culture at its formative stage in the 1920s and the 1930s, and the significant role played by Swami Acchutanand and Chandrikaprasad Jigyasu, in this process.
A “mesmerizing” biography of the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Sophie’s Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Darkness Visible (Entertainment Weekly).
Herbert Leibowitz's "e;Something Urgent I Have to Say to You"e; provides a new perspective on the life and poetry of the doctor poet William Carlos Williams, a key American writer who led one of the more eventful literary lives of the twentieth century.
Writing and composing with honesty and humanism, Lucille Clifton is known for her themes of the body, family, community, politics, womanhood, and the spirit.
A revelatory, intimate, and sympathetic study of Philip Larkin, an iconic poet and a much misunderstood man, offering fresh understanding of the interplay of his life and work.
An illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the artsHorace Walpole (1717-1797) was a collector, printer, novelist, arbiter of taste, and renowned writer of letters.
The definitive biography of Wilkie Collins: the Victorian novelist, playwright, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White, who lived a life of sensation.
Jack Kerouac was one of Americas great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship and disillusion.
Drawing on the works of Shakespeare and American screenwriter Joss Whedon, this study in narrative ethics contends that Whedon is the Shakespeare of our time.
Eine faszinierende Zeitreise auf den Spuren berühmter SchriftstellerinnenRegine Ahrem lädt ein zu einer faszinierenden Zeitreise auf den Spuren von sieben außergewöhnlichen Frauen: Vicki Baum, Marieluise Fleißer, Mascha Kaléko, Irmgard Keun, Erika Mann, Ruth Landshoff und Gabriele Tergit.
This authoritative one-stop resource helps readers understand the problem of sexual assault in the United States, including societal factors, notorious cases, laws and practices, victim advocacy and reform efforts, and keys to recovery.
Gottfried Benn hielt sie für die größte Lyrikerin, die Deutschland je hatte, Karl Kraus bekannte, für eines ihrer Gedichte den ganzen Heine herzugeben.
Born into an educated free black family in Portland, Maine, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) was a pioneering playwright, journalist, novelist, feminist, and public intellectual, best known for her 1900 novel Contending Forces: A Romance of Negro Life North and South.
Having written books in practically every genre, George Bowering is often introduced as someone who adores baseball, yet ironically he did not begin this book about the game until he was appointed Canada's first Poet Laureate for 2002-04.
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayFinalist for the Southern Book PrizeANew York Times Critics Best Books of the YearAn NPR Best Book of the Year A NYLON BestNonfiction Book of the Year A Buzzfeed BestNonfiction Book of the YearAn Entrophy Magazine Best Non-Fiction Book of the YearA Brooklyn Rail Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year A Baltimore Beat BestBook of the YearAParisReview Staff Pick A Chicago Tribune Exciting Book for 2017A Rolling StoneCulture Index ReccomendationA BuzzfeedMost ExcitingBook for 2017 A The Millions Great 2017 Book Preview Pick A Huffington Post2017 Preview PickANYLON Best 10 BooksoftheMonthA Lit Hub 15 Books to Read This Month A Poets Writers New and Noteworth Selection A PW Top 10 SpringPickin Essays Literary Criticism An Emma Straub Reccomendation on PBSOne of the themes of Sunshine State, Sarah Gerards striking book of essays, is how Florida can unmoor you and make you reach for shoddy, off-the-shelf solutions to your psychic unease.
The dismantlement of the British Empire had a profound impact on many celebrated white Anglophone writers of the twentieth century, particularly those who were raised in former British colonial territories and returned to the metropole after the Second World War.
For the first time, novelist Iris Murdoch's life in her own words, from girlhood to her last yearsIris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and groundbreaking philosopher whose life reflected her unconventional beliefs and values.
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.
A close look at the genesis of one of America's great modern writersRobert Emmet Long presents a full account of Truman Capote's early life, making use of Capote's unpublished papers.
