Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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- Sontag, her life and work, Benjamin Moser
- Under magnolia, a Southern memoir, Frances Mayes
- The art of vanishing, a memoir of wanderlust, Laura Smith
- Dust tracks on a road, by Zora Neale Hurston
- Falling, a daughter, a father, and a journey back, Elisha Cooper
- Isaac Asimov, a life of the grand master of science fiction, Michael White
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake, Anna Quindlen
- Norman Mailer, a double life, J. Michael Lennon
- Screening room, family pictures, Alan Lightman
- The chicken chronicles, sitting with the angels who have returned with my memories : Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe : a memoir, Alice Walker
- Black boy, (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth, Richard Wright ; foreword by John Edgar Wideman ; afterword by Malcolm Wright
- The talented Miss Highsmith, the secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith, Joan Schenkar
- Author, the JT LeRoy story., Amazon Studios, A&E IndieFilms, RatPac Documentary Films in association with Complex Corporation present a Vice production ; written and directed by Jeff Feuerzeig ; produced by Jeff Feuerzeig, Jim Czarnecki, Danny Gabai ; produced by Molly Thompson ; produced by Brett Ratner, Widescreen
- American rhapsody, writers, musicians, movie stars, and one great building, Claudia Roth Pierpont
- I know why the caged bird sings
- Thornton Wilder, a life, Penelope Niven ; with a foreword by Edward Albee
- Shirley Jackson, a rather haunted life, Ruth Franklin
- Seducing the demon, writing for my life, Erica Jong
- Pilgrimage on a steelride, a memoir about men and motorcycles, Gary Paulsen
- Dr Seuss, the cat behind the hat, [the art of Dr Suess], written by Caroline M. Smith ; images compiled and edited by William W. Dreyer ... [and others]
- The mockingbird next door, life with Harper Lee, Marja Mills
- My Venice and other essays, Donna Leon
- Perfectly miserable, guilt, God and real estate in a small town, Sarah Payne Stuart
- Jack Kerouac's American journey, the real-life odyssey of On the road, Paul Maher, Jr
- Maya's song, written by Renée Watson ; illustrated by Bryan Collier
- Capote, a biography, Gerald Clarke. --
- My foreign cities, a memoir, Elizabeth Scarboro
- Gone to the woods, surviving a lost childhood, by Gary Paulsen ; pictures by Anna and Varvara Kendel
- A widow's story, a memoir, Joyce Carol Oates
- The book of separation, a memoir, Tova Mirvis
- The lost landscape, a writer's coming of age, Joyce Carol Oates
- Philip Roth, the biography, Blake Bailey
- The discomfort zone, a personal history, Jonathan Franzen
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider, the story of E.B. White, Barbara Herkert ; illustrated by Lauren Castillo
- Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian years, Brian Boyd
- Flannery, a life of Flannery O'Connor, Brad Gooch
- The princess diarist, Carrie Fisher
- Bill Peet, an autobiography, Bill Peet
- Sempre Susan, a memoir of Susan Sontag, Sigrid Nunez
- Here if you need me, a true story, Kate Braestrup
- I know why the caged bird sings, Maya Angelou
- You don't have to say you love me, a memoir, Sherman Alexie
- Rolling pennies in the dark, a memoir with a message, Douglas MacKinnon
- All tomorrow's parties, a memoir, Rob Spillman
- Marriage and other acts of charity, Kate Braestrup
- Sometimes you have to lie, the life and times of Louise Fitzhugh, renegade author of Harriet the spy, Leslie Brody
- Stories I tell myself, growing up with Hunter S. Thompson, Juan F. Thompson
- Jack's book, an oral biography of Jack Kerouac, by Barry Gifford & Lawrence Lee
- What's not to love?, the adventures of a mildly perverted young writer, Jonathan Ames
- Little matches, a memoir of grief and light, Maryanne O'Hara
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