Biography: writers

MIRACLE IN THE EVENING is the autobiography of one of the most brilliant stage and industrial designers of our time.

This Book is about the nature of the Philosophy of Existentialism and its originator, Kierkegaard.

When Robert Benchley died in 1945, his obituaries read like love-letters from the world.

'Darkly angelic prose.

'Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists.

Whether on the seashore or on the trails between clumps of Haworth heather, let us walk with Anne Bronte and listen to her discussing the kind of truth "e;that always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

Across the span of more than forty years, Raphael Dorman OLeary, a professor of English rhetoric and English literature, taught his students at the University of Kansas to think straight, to put sinew into their sentences, and to embrace the magnificent literary treasures of their mother tongue.

Named Most Anticipated by: Bustle Popsugar Goodreads Zibby Magazine SheReads Book RiotAnd featured in Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire*Nominated for the 2023 Goodreads Best Debut Novel award and longlisted for the Book of the Year award through Book of the Month*'Achingly beautiful, and heartbreakingly relatable.

Sensible, Entertaining Answers To Everyone's Problems-Including YoursA fresh new look at:* The common-sense approach to marriage* Getting older* The importance of sex in marriage* The battle of the bottle* Teenagers and sex* And much more.

On a narrow cobbled street in a northern mill town young Harry Bernstein and his family face a daily struggle to make ends meet.

Discover Amos Oz s most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation*OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE* A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant Simon SchamaAmos Oz's remarkable, moving story takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s and into a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many.

Following on from her successful 1949 memoir "e;With a Feather on My Nose,"e; here we have a further biography, first published in 1959, from famous Broadway and early silent film actress Billie Burke, best known as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in The Wizard of Oz and widow of Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld of Ziegfeld Follies fame.

Everyone who has ever thought about writing or working in Hollywood will want to read this book.

Most mothers in 1963 didn't set out on a journey with their daughters through an impoverished section of France with little knowledge of the language.

From Barnardo boy to original virgin soldier; from apprentice journalist in London's Fleet Street to famous novelist.

'I love it!

Adoquines de ensueo, pasin y lagrimas.

Over the span of forty years, Professor Raphael Dorman OLeary labored tirelessly to make his students understand the importance of originality and of apt expression in English composition.

Tony Narducci fell in love with Tennessee Williamss poetry when he was fourteen years old.

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.

Edgar Allan Poe, the original master of the macabre and dark Romantic writer of Gothic novels, detective stories, poetry, short stories and satires is synonymous with themes of premature burial, death, madness and mysticism.

A joyful, playful celebration of Lewis Carroll's love of language combined with an introduction to his life and the origin of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, exquisitely illustrated by Julia Sarda.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft had a short life, and he died of cancer in 1936 at the age of 46.

My Spirit Is Like the Eagle begins with a poem sharing its title with the book.

Flamboyant and witty, Oscar Wilde was famous for being famous.

The present volume is the biography of Oscar Tschirky (1866-1943), known throughout the world as Oscar of the Waldorf, who worked as maitre d'hotel of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City from 1893 to 1943.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, is one of the most famous writers in American (and world) literature.

By the late 1930s Warsaw, Poland, was a vibrant city.

The life of Richard Alan Langhinrichs is a remarkable journeyin his own words as he struggles with his personal demonsand in the words and remembrances of his family, friends and colleagues.

Who Can I Turn to Now, tells the story of my life.

I have been reading some excellent writings by you.

Jane Hamils life has been a journey of self-discovery, after she learned early in life that her vision of who she was and how she saw the world was different from her family.

Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.

For the only son of the famous preacher and author Norman Vincent Peale, life was not without its challenges.

Christy Brown was severely disabled with cerebral palsy, unable to use any part of his body other than his left foot.

Katherine Mansfield is the celebrated biography be bestselling author Claire Tomalin'One of the best biographies I have ever read: a perfect match of author and subject.

From her father, Danielle Trussoni learned the importance of rock and roll, how to avoid the cops and never to shy away from a fight.