Biography: writers

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.

A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography, beginning with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer.

Provides a reader based approach to study of genre fiction specifically focused on Aboriginal Australian chick lit author Anita Heiss.

Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire.

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An Instant New York Times BestsellerANew York TimesNotable BookOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: TheWashington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Esquire, Electric Literature, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and InStyleA chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedyAt age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother.

William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention.

Modern biographies of William Shakespeare abound; however, close scrutiny of the surviving records clearly show that there is insufficient material for a cradle to grave account of his life, that most of what is written about him cannot be verified from primary sources, and that Shakespearean biography did not attain scholarly or academic respectability until long after Samuel Schoenbaum published William Shakespeare A Documentary Life in 1975.

Golo Mann neu entdecken!

Conversations with Michael McClure features twenty interviews from 1969 to 2015 that chronicle the capacious scope of McClure's creativity.

Celebrated by writers including Jonathan Franzen, who said that[t]his crazy, gorgeous family novel is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century, The Man Who Loved Children is a 1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead.

Based on solid research and clear explanations, this book provides a thorough and up-to-date analysis of 10 key facts and fictions regarding the life and works of William Shakespeare.

The ultimate meaning of the Russian Revolution which took place on March 7, 1917, can be best understood through the pages of the Journal of Leo Tolstoi which is here printed.

Mary MacLeod (Mairi nighean Alasdair Ruaidh) was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland.

'Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives.

'a genuinely interesting contribution to George Eliot scholarship by one of the leading postwar critics of Victorian fiction.

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARWhen everyday life becomes a state of emergency, how can yesterday s words suffice?

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

'I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination' - Keats, in a letter to his friend Benjamin Bailey in November 1817.

A diaristic exploration of procrastination, pregnancy, and artThe day before Cyrus Console and his pregnant wife leave for a monthlong visit to Romania, they receive troubling news-the fetus she's carrying is at elevated risk for Down syndrome.

Paul Auster nimmt den Leser mit auf eine lebhafte Reise durch die kurzen 29 Jahre von Stephen Cranes Leben.

Intimate Partner Sexual Violence (IPSV) is the most common type of sexual violence and a common component of domestic violence, yet most cases go unreported and service responses are often inadequate.

A wry, moving collection of letters from the late J.

Described in a recent New York Times Magazine profile as a "e;postcolonial Philip Roth,"e; Hanif Kureishi first captured the attention of audiences and critics in the 1980s with the award-winning novel The Buddha of Suburbia and the films My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid.

Celebrated author Ellen Gilchrist played many roles-writer and speaker, wife and lover, mother and grandmother.

In the summer of 1941, as the Germans invade Russia, newspaper reporter Vasily Grossman is swept to the frontlines, witnessing some of the most savage atrocities in Russian history.

A complete collection of Robert Lowell's autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life.

A fascinating retelling of Oskar Schindler's extraordinary story and how it came to the world's attention through Thomas Keneally's Booker Prize-winning novel and the subsequent multiple Oscar-winning film, Schindler's List*27th January 2019: 25th anniversary of the movie, which will be re-released in the UK and Australia*In 1980 Thomas Keneally walked into a shop in Beverley Hills to buy a briefcase, an impulse that was to change his life.

Celebrated and maligned with equal vigor, the Bloomsbury Group is the best-documented artistic coterie in twentieth-century literature.

An engaging, wickedly funny and splendidly anecdotal memoir of a career spent among writers, agents, publishers and bookmen and women of every stripe.

In this personal portrait of Edward Said written by a close friend, Dominique Edd, offers a fascinating and fresh presentation of his oeuvre from his earliest writings on Joseph Conrad to his most famous texts, Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism.

Gezeichnet wird ein detailliertes Porträt der Etappen von Hölderlins Denken und Dichten unter konsequentem Einbezug der Forschung.

Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light.

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The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the European 20th century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was an observer and chronicler of his times.

Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction.

'An outstanding revisionist portrait of an age' Telegraph'Targoff tells their stories with vim and vigour' i Paper'[A] fascinating excavation of four intellectual powerhouse women' Tina Brown, New York TimesA New Yorker Book of the YearDiscover the lives and work of four ambitious Renaissance women who, against all odds, made themselves heard-and read-in the time of ShakespeareIn an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare's England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid-16th century into the private lives of four women writers working at a time when women were legally the property of men.

The precipitous cliffs, rolling headlands, and rocky inlets of the California coast come alive in the poetry of John Robinson Jeffers, an icon of the environmental movement.

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The precipitous cliffs, rolling headlands, and rocky inlets of the California coast come alive in the poetry of John Robinson Jeffers, an icon of the environmental movement.

444 pages, 174 images, 64 contributorsThe Third Edition of Child Abuse Quick Reference is completely revised and expanded, with new and emerging science for the multidisciplinary response to child abuse.

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Greil Marcus once said to an interviewer, "e;There is an infinite amount of meaning about anything, and I free associate.

This updated and expanded edition provides comprehensive coverage of the theory and practice of counselling survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA).