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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
How did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world?
On the morning he was born, he nearly died. His dad grew up in the Pogey– the Newburgh, New York, poorhouse. He worked at a mental hospital in Massachusetts, where he met the singer James Taylor and the poet Robert Lowell. While he toiled in advertising hell, James wrote the ad jingle line “I’m a Toys ‘R’ Us Kid.” He once watched James...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"You fall down. You get hurt. You get up again. You know Jennifer Weiner as many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and "an unlikely feminist enforcer" (The New Yorker). She's also a mom, a daughter, and a sister; a former rower and current runner; a best friend and a reality TV junkie. Here, in her first foray into nonfiction, she takes the raw stuff of her personal life and spins it into a collection of essays on womanhood as uproariously...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xiii, 182 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this irresistible memoir, Anna Quindlen, bestselling author, writes about her life and the lives of women today, looking back and ahead--and celebrating it all--as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all that stuff in our closets, and more.
Author
Publisher
South Dakota Historical Society Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wilder's never-before-published autobiography reveals the true stories of her pioneering life. Pioneer Girl re-introduces readers to the woman who defined the pioneer experience for millions of people around the world.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Meet the Woman Behind the Books:
In this collection of new and previously published essays, New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman offers her take on a woman's life across the decades. Her childhood and school years, her newspaper career, her experiences as a novelist; Lippman finds universal touchstones in an unusual life that has as many twists as her award-winning crime fiction.
Essays include:
· Men Explain The Wire to Me
·...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
448 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and theologically sophisticated woman who wrote them. Brad Gooch brings to life O'Connor's significant friendships--with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, Walker Percy, and James Dickey among others--and her...
Author
Publisher
J. B. Lippincott Company
Pub. Date
c1972
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 322 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Late John Marquand is an engrossing and well-studied literary biography of one of twentieth century America's finest writers of fiction, by the bestselling protégé who took up his mantle.
19) Rick Riordan
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
111 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Biography of Rick Riordan, successful author of the 39 Clues series, Kane Chronicles, and Heroes of Olympus.