Biography: writers

This fascinating text contains the memoirs of Ford Madox Ford, originally published in 1911, and dedicated to his young children.

This is the second and final volume of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's 1957 biography of Charlotte "e;Bronte, Charlotte Bronte - A Monograph"e;.

Longtime fans of Richs writing will welcome this engaging and thoughtful biography of her life.

"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.

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

Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?

Margaret Mitchell was as complex and compelling as her legendary heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, and her story is as dramatic as anything out of her own imaginationindeed, it is the basis for the legend she created.

"e;An Experiment in Autobiography"e; was first published in 1934.

Mark Twain, the American comic genius who portrayed, named, and in part exemplified Americas Gilded Age, comes alive in Justin Kaplans extraordinary biography.

American Walt Whitman formed a close friendship with English writer Anne Gilchrist.

A darkly funny memoir about family reckonings (O, The Oprah Magazine)the story of a young man who, by handling the dead, makes peace with the living.

'I think the world should read it' LISA TADDEO, AUTHOR OF THREE WOMENA Guardian Book of the YearAfter the unexpected death of her partner, Carolina Setterwall found herself bereft and rudderless at thirty-six, faced with the seemingly impossible task of raising her son alone.

Peter Janos had recently turned eighteen when he heard rumours that a demonstration was going to take place that day in Budapest.

There is no better introduction to the world of Marco Vassi than his autobiography,The Stoned Apocalypse, a stirring and sensual work that is both unflinchingly honest and erotically charged.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

This volume contains a short autobiography of the seminal English poet and author, Rudyard Kipling.

"e;How I Became a Socialist"e; is a 1903 essay by Jack London.

A collection of writings by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker'His work has a symphonic quality unique in fiction' THE TIMES'The autobiography of one of the most distinct and profound writers we have'GUARDIANIn this rich collection of writings, spanning more than twenty years, Alan Garner, the Booker shortlisted author of Treacle Walker, explores his interest in a dazzling range of subjects; from archaeology, myth and language, to education, literature, film, music and philosophy, as well as mental health and our most profound quest for the spiritual.

Victoria Woodhull, Mary Wollstonecraft, Aimee Semple McPherson, Edwina Mountbatten, Margaret Argyll and Chanel were all women who dared.

This volume contains a collection of passages taken from Nathaniel Hawthorne's French and Italian note-books.

John Buchan 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, had a remarkable life and here is his wonderfully written and fascinating memoir.

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

"e;Things Near and Far"e; was is the second part of Arthur Machen's autobiography.

In this captivating memoir, novelist Anne Roiphe shows us what it was really like to grow up rich and Jewish in New York in the 1940s and 1950s.

The first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood.

Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulxs piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there.

"e;Remembering Keats"e; is a brand-new collection of poetry and essays by various authors dedicated to English Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821).

Published posthumously, this wise and entertaining family history and memoir offers keen insight into the origins of Rebecca West and her work  Working on Family Memories for over twenty years, West set out to narrate the story of her mother’s, father’s and husband’s unique and talented families.

Hailed as one of the greatest western novelists of all time, French author Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) first became famous for his debut novel "e;Madame Bovary"e; (1857), a seminal work of literary realism that resulted in Flaubert being put on trail for obscenity.

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This is the first volume of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's 1957 biography of Charlotte Bronte, "e;Charlotte Bronte - A Monograph"e;.

This antiquarian book contains an account of Jack London's time spent in the underworld of London in the late nineteenth-century.

Elusive Isabel (1909) is a spy novel by Jacques Futrelle.

It seems there is no genre of writing Marie NDiaye will not make her own.

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An unleashed love song to her late grandmother, Nickole Browns collection brings her brassy, bawdy, tough-as-new-rope grandmother to life.