Personal encounters with one of the most influential and iconic figures of the Beat Generation During the 1970s, William Burroughs, author of Junky and Naked Lunch, lived in a loft on the Bowery in New York City's Lower East Side....
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
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Author:L'Engle, MadeleineSummary:In the final memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, the author of A Wrinkle in Time paints an intimate portrait of her forty-year marriage.A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship....
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Author:McDowell, MartaSummary:A must-read companion to the Little House books The universal appeal of Laura Ingalls Wilde's books springs from a life lived in partnership with the land, on farms she and her family settled across the Northeast and Midwest. In...
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Author:L'Engle, MadeleineSummary:A poignant meditation on the bonds between mothers and daughters-and the inescapable effects of time-from the author of A Wrinkle in Time. In the second memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, Madeleine L'Engle chronicles a season of...
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Author:Armstrong, KarenSummary:As the work at the heart of Christianity, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world's most widely distributed book-it has been translated into over 2,000 languages-and the...
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Author:Hill, KathleenSummary:This memoir takes readers around the world, from New York to Nigeria, exploring a life illuminated by novels. As a child in music class, Kathleen Hill comes upon Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart, and the novel prepares her for a...
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Author:Clark, HeatherSummary:"Finally, the biography that Sylvia Plath deserves ... A spectacular achievement." —Ruth Franklin, author of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life The highly anticipated new biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her...
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Author:Maupin, ArmisteadSummary:Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Maupin reflects on the profound impact those closest to him have had on his life, sharing his candid search for his "logical family," the people...
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Author:Caldwell, ChloeSummary:Praise for Chloe Caldwell: "I read it a couple of months ago in one can't-put-it-down-even-though-it's-the-middle-of-the-night sitting. It's as intense and interesting and clear-hearted as they come."-Cheryl...
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Author:Manguel, AlbertoSummary:No one knows if there was a man named Homer, but there is little doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature. The Iliad and the Odyssey-with their incomparable tales of the Trojan War,...
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Author:Orner, PeterSummary:"Stories, both my own and those I've taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I've become," Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads-and writes-everywhere he...
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Author:L'Engle, MadeleineSummary:The beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time takes an introspective look at her life and muses on creativity in this memoir, the first of her Crosswicks Journals. Every so often I need OUT... . My special place is a small brook in a green...
