This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981)--author of the 1958 national best-seller Only in America--illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s.
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.
Blue Water tells the story of a young mans desire to serve his country, travel and find excitement beyond the confines of rural Lancaster County Pennsylvania.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY - The Woman Behind The Books: Autobiography & Private Letters (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy & The Blue Castle)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
A citizen in The Galacterian Alignment of Space Peoples and Planets, Thyron is an ExtraTerrestrial Titan with a highly evolved soul, but born with a duality disorder.
When Clare Stimpson turns-up in Modena, a beautiful city in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, to teach English, little does she know that she will fall in love with the country and its people, and stay there for the next four years.
On July 21, 1941, Tikva Cholomovitch was born in Kovno, Lithuania, to Yosef and Asya Cholomovitch, her birth against the direct orders of the Nazis, who had occupied Kovno just one month prior, forbidding the birth of Jewish children.
This extraordinary collection of correspondence by Paul Bowles spans eight decades and provides an evolving portrait of an artist renowned for his privacy.
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD"e;In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr.
A noted biographer and poet illuminates the unique woman who wrote the greatest American love poetry of the twentieth centuryWhat Lips My Lips Have Kissed is the story of a rare sort of American genius, who grew up in grinding poverty in Camden, Maine.
The Facts is a rigorously unfictionalized narrative that portrays Philip Roth unadorned--as young artist, as student, as son, as lover, as husband, as American, as Jew--and candidly examines how close the novels have been to, and how far from, autobiography.
A Lifetime of Letters from the Beloved Nobel Prize-Winning Author of Steppenwolf and SiddharthaThroughout his life, Soul of the Age author Hermann Hesse was a prolific and thoughtful letter writer.
I'll Tell Them I Remember You is New York Times bestselling author William Peter Blatty's memoir about being raised by his single Lebanese mother struggling to make ends meet in 1930s Manhattan.
The strange and varied lives of the ten children of the world's most beloved novelistCharles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created from Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield was also the father of ten children (and a possible eleventh).
In Ghost Milk, Iain Sinclair, "e;our greatest guide to London"e; (The Spectator), chronicles the transformation and disappearance of his beloved East London in the wake of the 2012 Olympics.
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.
El caso de Rulfo es el del escritor que tiene mucho que decir no tanto en extensin como en profundidad y que por condicionamientos de su misma biografa se ve obligado a expresarse a travs de personajes sumamente rsticos, gente que aparte de ignorante casi no habla.
