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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The autobiography of a super-tramp	W. H. Davies	“A young poet tramped across America, crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic as a cattleman, begged and peddled in England, developing meanwhile in the power to write with rare perception and beauty.” …	OL1092945W
The house in France	Gully Wells	"Set in Provence, London, and New York: a daughter's wonderfully evocative and witty memoir of her mother and stepfather--Dee Wells, the glamorous and rebellious American journalist, and A. J. Ayer, …	OL16014013W
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 boy kings of Texas	Domingo Martinez	"Domingo Martinez lays bare his interior and exterior worlds as he struggles to make sense of the violent and the ugly, along with the beautiful and the loving. Partly a reflection on the culture of …	OL16637669W
Sugarhouse	Matthew C. Batt	"'You're married, you're getting older, and your parents are looking more and more like the grandparents they are pestering you to make them. It's getting embarrassing. Your pathetic renter's mailbox…	OL16679844W
The Heming Way	Marty Beckerman	"More than fifty years have passed since the death of Ernest Hemingway, history's ultimate man, and young males today--obsessed with Facebook, Twitter, and Playstation--know nothing about his legenda…	OL17435816W
After visiting friends	Michael Hainey	"A decade in the writing, the haunting story of a son's quest to understand the mystery of his father's death--a universal memoir about the secrets families keep and the role they play in making us w…	OL17805676W
The blue box	Sallie Bingham	"This family history centered around three women from three generations spans the Civil War through the Jazz Age. Fans of Sallie Bingham's work will especially appreciate her parents Mary and Barry's…	OL17932908W
The fortunes of Francis Barber	Michael Bundock	"This compelling book chronicles a young boy's journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of London's literary world, and reveals the unlikely friendship that changed his life. Francis…	OL19663087W
The Tastemaker	Edward White	"A revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an era"--	OL19706536W
The shadow in the garden	James Atlas	"The biographer's autobiography: a funny, endearing tale of how writers' lives get documented, by the celebrated chronicler of Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz. The biographer--so often in the shadow…	OL19715311W
Take this man	Brando Skyhorse	"From PEN/Hemingway award winner Brando Skyhorse comes this stunning, heartfelt memoir in the vein of The Glass Castle or The Tender Bar, the true story of a boy's turbulent childhood growing up with…	OL19980152W
The Mockingbird next door	Marja Mills	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author has said almost nothing on the record. Journa…	OL19981950W
God'll cut you down	John Safran	"An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story about race, money, sex, and power in the modern American South"--	OL19987085W
Hans Christian Andersen	Paul Binding	"Rarely does an American or European child grow up without an introduction to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling," "The Princess and the Pea," or "Thumbelina." Andersen began publishing his…	OL19990816W
Publishing	Gail Godwin	"A personal story of a writer's hunger to be published, the pursuit of that goal, and then the long haul--for Gail Godwin, forty-five years of being a published writer and all that goes with it. A st…	OL19992388W
Letters to Véra	Vladimir Nabokov	"A collection of letters between Vladimir Nabokov and his wife, Vera"-- "The letters of the great writer to his wife--gathered here for the first time--chronicle a decades-long love story and docume…	OL20012494W
The Brothers Vonnegut	Ginger Gail Strand,Ginger Strand	"Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schen…	OL20012864W
The Liars' Club	Mary Karr	"For its twentieth anniversary, a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition of Mary Karr's pathbreaking, award-winning, mega-bestselling memoir, with a new foreword by Lena Dunham When it was first published t…	OL20022024W
Casanova	Laurence Bergreen	"The remarkable story of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), an impoverished abandoned boy who became the notorious libertine, famous writer, and correspondent with figures such as Voltaire, Louis XV, and …	OL20040244W