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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
One writer's beginnings	Eudora Welty	In a "continuous thread of revelation" Eudora Welty sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writi…	OL113976W
Fifty days of solitude	Doris Grumbach	Faced with a rare opportunity to experiment with solitude, Doris Grumbach decided to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to anyone for fifty days. The result is a beautiful meditation abo…	OL114069W
Extra Innings	Doris Grumbach	Extra Innings continues the intense, sometimes funny, sometimes tart, and sometimes very moving account of a closely examined life begun by Doris Grumbach in her widely praised day book Coming into t…	OL114073W
Turn, magic wheel	Dawn Powell	Dennis Orphen, in writing a novel, has stolen the life story of his friend, Effie Callingham, the former wife of a famous, Hemingway-like novelist, Andrew Callingham. Orphen’s betrayal is not the onl…	OL11951W
With Hemingway	Arnold Samuelson	Presents a portrait of Hemingway as seen through the eyes of a Midwestern farm boy living with the family and fishing, talking, and writing with Hemingway.	OL122623W
Bugles and a tiger	John Masters	John Masters whose military career in the Indian Army spanned two decades has written a thrilling account of the last days of the British Raj. Amidst the tensions of the civil disobedience movement …	OL123581W
Willa Cather in person	Willa Cather	A collection of the American author's public speeches, interviews and letters.	OL12808W
The alphabet of grace	Frederick Buechner	With characteristic eloquence and insight, Buechner presents a three-part series of reflections that probe, through the course of one day, the innermost mysteries of life. Blending an artist's eye fo…	OL12936W
Goddess of the market	Jennifer Burns	Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets s…	OL13771777W
A Broom of One's Own	Nancy Peacock	For the twice-published novelist, reading an article about herself in the National Enquirer—under the headline "Here's One for the Books: Cleaning Lady Is an Acclaimed Author"—was more than a shock. …	OL14849672W
A New England love story	LouAnn Bigge Gaeddert	Relates the love story of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody based on their letters and journals.	OL14864136W
Animal magnetism	Rita Mae Brown	Rita Mae Brown's earliest memory is of the soothing purr of Mickey, her family's long-haired tiger cat, who curled up and claimed a spot in her crib. From there, a steady parade of cats, dogs, horses…	OL14935927W
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel	Jane Smiley	Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist Jane Smiley celebrates the novel--and takes us on an exhilarating tour through one hundred of them--in this seductive and immensely rewarding literary t…	OL14957389W
Hemingway : an annotated chronology	Michael S. Reynolds	155 p. ; 19 cm	OL15339586W
Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club	Barbara Kramer	Explores the life and career of author Amy Tan, from her childhood in Oakland, California, through her struggle to accept her Chinese heritage, to her career as a writer.	OL15834509W
The passion of Ayn Rand	Barbara Branden	The bestselling biography of one of the 20th century's most remarkable and controversial writers. Author Barbara Branden, who knew Rand for nineteen years, provides a matchless portrait of this fierc…	OL15844490W
A Hostage to Fortune	Ernest K. Gann	The author of Fate Is the Hunter and The High and the Mighty unrolls his adventures in the air, in Hollywood, in far-flung exotic places with irony, heart, and unsparing honesty. The stars of his lif…	OL16051210W
Butterfly in the typewriter	Cory MacLauchlin	"The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. After writing A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole corresponded with Robert Gottlieb of Simon & Schuster for two…	OL16489763W
Gothic to multicultural	A. Robert Lee	"Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction, twenty-three essays each carefully revised from the past four decades, explores both range and individual register. The col…	OL16988781W
Sky of stone	Homer H. Hickam	"In the summer of '61, Homer "Sonny" Hickam, a year of college behind him, was dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny could reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother was sp…	OL17043W