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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
Lettres à Germaine Lucas-Championnière	John Dos Passos	Mademoiselle, S'il vous plait, qui est Darius Milhaud? Les jeunes gens se sont rencontrés en juin 1919 à un concert Koubitzky salle Gaveau. L'armistice conclu, Dos Passos est à Paris en attendant…	OL1217919W
The complete notebooks of Henry James	Henry James	"This book includes the nine scribbler-notebooks that were published by Oxford in 1947 ; these have been considerably updated and annotated to correct the identification of stories developed by James…	OL14860893W
Herman Melville	Elizabeth Hardwick	The complex author of the quintessential American masterpiece is demystified by a leading contemporary critic. Hardwick's novelistic flair reveals a former whaleship deck-hand whose voyages were the …	OL15836929W
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
The other side of me	Sidney Sheldon	Author of over a dozen bestsellers, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and creator of some of television's greatest hits, Sheldon has seen and done it all, and now in this candid memoir, he shares h…	OL15858171W
Willa Cather	Bernice Slote,Lucia Woods	Biographical account of her personal and literary career. Includes 3 Pictorial essays.	OL16071537W
Falling for me	Anna David	Using "Sex and the single girl" by Helen Gurley Brown as a lesson plan, Anna David ventured out of her comfort zone in the hope of overcoming fears and insecurities that had haunted her for years.	OL16358821W
Every love story is a ghost story	D. T. Max	"The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with…	OL16558246W
The Bohemian girl	Kenneth M. Cameron	When General Denton, the famous American author and expatriate in turn-of-the-century London, receives a letter from Mary Thomason saying she's in danger and needs his help, his search for the woman …	OL17906130W
The Stephen King story	George W. Beahm	Writer Stephen King's life and work. Includes a checklist of his works, a bibliography, and an index. ISBN: 0836279891 9780836279894 OCLC Number: 24378579 Description: 291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. …	OL1815047W
An exemplary citizen	Charles Waddell Chesnutt	"This book collects the letters written between 1906 and 1932 by novelist and civil rights activist Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932). Between 1885 and 1905, this pioneer in the African-American litera…	OL18230577W
Revere Beach elegy	Roland Merullo	"In Revere Beach Elegy, Roland Merullo returns to his childhood heaven of Revere, Massachusetts, to begin an intricate, impressionistic portrait of his rich and complex life. The tough codes of Rever…	OL1884207W
Willa Cather	Sara McIntosh Wooten	Describes the life, career, and writings of the Pulitzer Prize winner who immortalized the Great Plains and Nebraska countryside.	OL1917420W
The Geography of Love	Glenda Burgess	"If I had given it much thought, I might have hesitated to marry a man for whom at the age of 45 much of the past was too painful to consider--for either of us. Truthfully, thought had little to do w…	OL2259884W
Amy Tan	Charles J. Shields	Explores the life and career of Amy Tan, from her childhood in California, through her struggle to accept her Chinese heritage, to her career as a writer.	OL3033736W
Zora Neale Hurston	Deborah Cannarella	Profiles Zora Neale Hurston, whose childhood love of stories led her to a successful career as a folklorist and author of poems, novels, short stories, and plays.	OL34734W
Chosen country	John Dos Passos	Described as "Dos Passos' only retrospective novel," this book deals withe the Victorians, the Edwardians and the Lost Generation.	OL35001908W
Memory babe	Gerald Nicosia	A thoroughly researched portrait of Beat writer Jack Kerouac and his life, times, and work.	OL3943373W
Along with youth	Peter Griffin	This biography Includes five short stories by Ernest Hemingway.	OL4790569W