Biography: writers

Although much is known about the mature Truman Capote--his literary genius and flamboyant life-style--details of his childhood years spent in Monroeville, Alabama, have remained a mystery.

This play, which contains biographical information relating to Herman Melville, is fundamentally an exploration of the ways in which these two things take place.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war period.

From the 1920s through the 1950s Maxwell Anderson was one of the most important playwrights in America.

At the time of his death at the age of 95, Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was the most famous historian in the world.

She tipped her head sideways, her lips offering themselves to his.

Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first critical biography of one of today's most important novelists.

Nicaragua es la patria de los escritores de Centroamérica, desde Rubén Darío hasta el padre Ernesto Cardenal, desde Salomón de la Selva hasta José Coronel Urtecho, desde Claribel Alegría y Daisy Zamora hasta Gioconda Belli, desde Ernesto Mejía Sánchez (quien vivió entre nosotros muchos años y fue miembro de El Colegio de México, entonces dirigido por don Alfonso Reyes) hasta Sergio Ramírez, autor de Margarita, está linda la mar, título de una de sus novelas, tomado de un poema del padre del modernismo, Rubén Darío, el que cubrió de "Azul…" a la literatura del futuro de América Latina.

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Sommerfrische in Bayern, 1918.

John Milton (1608-1674) is best known as the author of the masterful epic retelling of fall of man, Paradise Lost.

Eine intellektuelle Biographie über Fremdheit und Ortlosigkeit, im Schreiben wie im Leben.

'Government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of original mind' - William GodwinWilliam Godwin was the first major anarchist thinker in the Anglophone world, who rocked the establishment at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

This is a penetrating reinterpretation and defense of Hegel's social theory as an alternative to reigning liberal notions of social justice.

Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's name is recognized the world over, for decades the man himself has been overshadowed by his better understood creation, Sherlock Holmes, who has become one of literature's most enduring characters.

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

Anna Jameson is best known for her 1838 publication, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, the product of her brief visit to the country in 1836-7.

"e;[A] moving, funny, hauntingly brilliant memoir about marriage.

Charlotte Bronte: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Bronte's life and work.

'A wonderful book Holmes sublimely illuminates Sylvia's extraordinary life' The Times'A masterpiece' Vanessa Redgrave _______________Born into one of Britain's most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel.

Hansjoachim Kienes »Porträt einer Frau in ihrer Welt« macht den Leser nicht nur mit dem Leben von Schillers Lotte bekannt, sondern bezieht auch Schiller als eigentliche Hauptperson gebührend mit ein; und es vermittelt ein detailliertes Bild von der damaligen Epoche, insbesondere vom Weimar der klassischen Zeit.

After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the culture of ideas.

In February 1910, the young woman who would become Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history.

Arthur Schnitzlers »Jugend in Wien« ist nicht nur eine der bedeutendsten Autobiographien des 20.

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From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure featuring ';your favorite author's favorite authors' (Today)the women who inspired Jane Austenthat's ';a meditation on reading and writing, on honesty and self-discoveryand on what books can teach us, if we let them' (The Washington Post).

'A beautifully clear account of a richly complex life, an account which is also fascinatingly vivid on the political and social background of the time.

Radclyffe Hall was born in 1880 in Bournemouth in a house inappropriately named 'Sunny Lawn'.

An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century.

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From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major worksJoseph Frank (1918-2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer, scholar, and critic of his time.

One of the twentieth century's most intriguing and complicated literary friendships was that between Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

The first biography to examine Mailer's life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of America from the end of World War II to the election of Barack Obama.

Anne Thackeray Ritchie, daughter of the author of Vanity Fair and step-aunt of Virginia Woolf, was also a fine writer.

John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him.

This is the first book-length examination of the fiction written by Richard Ford, who gained critical acclaim for The Sportswriter, the story of suburbanite Frank Bascombe's struggle to survive loneliness and great loss.

Feminism's Empire investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and demonstrates the challenge of conceptualizing "e;pro-imperialist"e; and "e;anti-imperialist"e; as binary positions.

Soldier, courtier, author, entertainer, and amateur spy, Thomas Churchyard (c.

BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA INTRODUCED BY ALISON LIGHT'The genuine, thoughtful voice of a woman whose works have been loved by millions' NEW YORK TIMES'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Du Maurier created a scale by which modern women can measure their feelings' STEPHEN KING The Rebecca Notebook provides an unparalleled insight into the mastery of a writer's craft and the inner vision that made du Maurier a household name.

Fills my heart with so much joy' Niall Harbison, bestselling author of Tina'In a dark time, a daily dose of hope Jojo MoyesHow do you welcome someone new into your heart and home?

Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751), Gottseibeiuns der französischen Frühaufklärung, lebte als Arzt, Sozialreformer und klandestiner Autor und Philosoph gleich mehrere Leben, ehe er – von Diderot, Voltaire und dem halben intellektuellen Europa gehasst – in Potsdam seinen berühmten Pastetentod starb.