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Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Life
By Elizabeth K. Wallace, James D. Wallace. 2016
Open the pages of so many children’s classics—Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, Mister Dog, The Cricket in Times Square, The Rescuers,…
the Little House books—and you will see page after page of the artistry that brought those stories to life. And behind the illustrations sparking the imagination of generations was a man who had an extraordinary existence.Born in New York City in 1912, Williams was educated in England and trained on the continent. After enduring the Blitz in London, he returned to New York, where he encountered the vibrant art and cultural scene of the 1940s. He made his home first in New York, then Aspen, and finally Guanajuato, Mexico and was married four times. During his life he met people who shaped and exemplified the twentieth century: Winston Churchill, E. B. White and Ursula Nordstrom, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and countless more.This is a biography of Garth Williams as an artist and an illustrator. It is the story of how his journey led him from winning sculpture awards at the Royal College of Art in London, to capturing the essence of frontier life in the American West, to rendering the humanity of beloved animal characters. The biography also explores the historical context that affected Williams’ life and art, both in the old world and the new. Against the frenetic pace of post-war suburbanization, Williams’ illustrations nurtured a connection with the animal world and with a vanishing agrarian life. By tapping into American themes, Williams spoke to a postwar yearning for simplicity.Complete with more than 60 illustrations, this is the first full biography of Garth Williams written with the help and cooperation of his family.Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
By Casey Cep. 2019
As seen on CBS Sunday Morning In Furious Hours, Casey Cep unravels the mystery surrounding Harper Lee's first and only…
work of nonfiction, and the shocking true crimes at the center of it. Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell's murderer was acquitted--thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend. Sitting in the audience during the vigilante's trial was Harper Lee, who had traveled from New York City to her native Alabama with the idea of writing her own In Cold Blood, the true-crime classic she had helped her friend Truman Capote research seventeen years earlier. Lee spent a year in town reporting, and many more years working on her own version of the case. Now Casey Cep brings this story to life, from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South. At the same time, she offers a deeply moving portrait of one of the country's most beloved writers and her struggle with fame, success, and the mystery of artistic creativity. A New York Times Bestseller.Four Men Shaking: Searching for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer, and My Perfect Zen Teacher
By Lawrence Shainberg. 2019
From Pushcart Prize-winning author Lawrence Shainberg, a funny and powerful memoir about literary friendships, writing, and Zen practice.“Inexplicably good karma”—to…
this, author Lawrence Shainberg attributes a life filled with relationships with legendary writers and renowned Buddhist teachers. In Four Men Shaking he weaves together the narratives of three of those relationships: his literary friendships with Samuel Beckett and Norman Mailer, and his teacher-student relationship with the Japanese Zen master Kyudo Nakagawa Roshi. In Shainberg’s lifelong pursuit of both writing and Zen practice, each of these men represents an important aspect of his experience. The audacious, combative Mailer becomes a symbol in Shainberg’s mind for the Buddhist concept of “form,” while the elusive and self-deprecating Beckett seems to embody an awareness of “emptiness.” Through it all is Nakagawa, the earthy, direct Zen master challenging Shainberg to let go of his endless rumination and accept reality as it is. Browse InsideFour Men ShakingSearching for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer, and My Perfect Zen TeacherBy Lawrence Shainberg$16.95 - PaperbackOUT OF STOCK: Available for back-order.Qty:Shambhala Publications07/16/2019Pages: 144Size: 5 x 7ISBN: 9781611807295 0Related • Zen ConfidentialBy Shozan Jack Haubner$14.95 Paperback • Nothing Holy about ItBy Tim Burkett$17.95 Paperback • Let the Whole Thundering World Come HomeBy Natalie Goldberg$16.95 Paperback • Single White MonkBy Shozan Jack Haubner$14.95 PaperbackRelated TopicsBuddhist Biography/MemoirWritingDetails“Inexplicably good karma”—to this, author Lawrence Shainberg attributes a life filled with relationships with legendary writers and renowned Buddhist teachers. In Four Men Shaking he weaves together the narratives of three of those relationships: his literary friendships with Samuel Beckett and Norman Mailer, and his teacher-student relationship with the Japanese Zen master Kyudo Nakagawa Roshi. In Shainberg’s lifelong pursuit of both writing and Zen practice, each of these men represents an important aspect of his experience. The audacious, combative Mailer becomes a symbol in Shainberg’s mind for the Buddhist concept of “form,” while the elusive and self-deprecating Beckett seems to embody an awareness of “emptiness.” Through it all is Nakagawa, the earthy, direct Zen master challenging Shainberg to let go of his endless rumination and accept reality as it is.Formation: A Woman's Memoir of Stepping Out of Line
By Ryan Leigh Dostie. 2019
One of Bookriot's "Best Books of the Summer": Cheryl Strayed's Wild meets Anthony Swofford's Jarhead in this powerful literary memoir…
of a young Army recruit driven to prove herself in a man's world.Raised by powerful women in a restrictive, sheltered Christian community in New England, Ryan Dostie never imagined herself on the front lines of a war halfway around the world. But then a conversation with an Army recruiter in her high-school cafeteria changes the course of her life. Hired as a linguist, she quickly has to find a space for herself in the testosterone-filled world of the Army barracks, and has been holding her own until the unthinkable happens: she is raped by a fellow soldier.Struggling with PTSD and commanders who don't trust her story, Dostie finds herself fighting through the isolation of trauma amid the challenges of an unexpected war. What follows is a riveting story of one woman's extraordinary journey to prove her worth, physically and mentally, in a world where the odds are stacked against her. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times} span.s1 {font-kerning: none}Estampas de niña
By Camila Couve. 2018
Un libro autobiográfico sobre la infancia y los secretos familiares #La niñez es eso, la voz primera, la piel que…
se estira, los ojos de dulce mirada y, en mi pequeño recuerdo, la niña que un día fui y que se quedó bailando en medio de la sala más grande#. Cada uno de los 67 fragmentos que componen este relato sobre la infancia nos acercan al complejo tejido de la intimidad familiar, donde se asoman las verdades inconfesadas de los padres sobre el telón de fondo de un Santiago ensombrecido por la dictadura militar. Un debut literario sutil y brutalmente honesto que aborda la vulnerabilidad y a la vez la inteligencia infantil, capaz de percibir las amenazas incluso en los entornos más queridos.Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief (Library of Religious Biography (LRB))
By Roger Lundin. 1998
Garnering awards from Choice, Christianity Today, Books & Culture, and the Conference on Christianity and Literature when first published in…
1998, Roger Lundin's Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief has been widely recognized as one of the finest biographies of the great American poet Emily Dickinson. Paying special attention to her experience of faith, Lundin skillfully relates Dickinson's life -- as it can be charted through her poems and letters -- to nineteenth-century American political, social, religious, and intellectual history. This second edition of Lundin's superb work includes a standard bibliography, expanded notes, and a more extensive discussion of Dickinson's poetry than the first edition contained. Besides examining Dickinson's singular life and work in greater depth, Lundin has also keyed all poem citations to the recently updated standard edition of Dickinson's poetry. Already outstanding, Lundin's biography of Emily Dickinson is now even better than before., the volume begins with a look at early christology and covers the whole of the New Testament from the Gospels to Revelation.Diarios 1992-2006
By Abelardo Castillo. 2019
Segundo volumen de los Diarios de Abelardo Castillo, que abarcan el período 1992-2006, etapa consagratoria del autor como uno de…
los más importantes escritores argentinos del siglo XX. Los diarios personales de Abelardo Castillo publicados por primera vez. Este segundo volumen, que corresponde a los años 1992-2006, abarca la etapa más consagratoria del autor de las novelas El que tiene sed y Crónica de un iniciado, además de ensayos, obras de teatro y cinco volúmenes de cuentos. Castillo fundó y dirigió las legendarias revistas El Escarabajo de Oro, considerada por la crítica especializada como la más prestigiosa publicación literaria de los años sesenta, y El Ornitorrinco, la primera y más importante revista de la resistencia cultural durante los años de la dictadura. Novelista, cuentista, dramaturgo y ensayista, en sus Diarios podemos asomarnos al proceso creador de ideas que se transforman en cuentos o novelas, al maestro de escritores (que concurren a su legendario taller), al observador crítico de la política local e internacional, al pensador, al hombre con sus conflictos personales y, sobre todo, al enorme y fervoroso lector que fue durante toda su vida.The Devil's Grip: A true story of shame, sheep and shotguns
By Neal Drinnan. 2019
Seven shots ring out in the silence of Victoria’s rolling Barrabool Hills. As the final recoil echoes through the paddocks,…
a revered sheep-breeding dynasty comes to a bloody and inglorious end. No one could have anticipated the orgy of violence that wiped out three generations of the Wettenhall family, much less the lurid scandals about Darcy Wettenhall, the man behind the world famous Stanbury sheep stud, that would emerge from the aftermath. Almost three decades later, the web of secrets and lies that led to this bizarre and seemingly motiveless murder spree are unravelled with the help of Bob Perry, Darcy Wettenhall’s secret lover for a decade prior to his murder. From the bucolic majesty, privilege and snobbery of the Western District’s prized pastoral lands and dynasties to the bleak, loveless underworld of orphanages, rodeo stables and homeless shelters, The Devil’s Grip is a courageous and thought-provoking meditation on the fragility of reputation, the folly of deception and the power of shame.Praise for The Devil’s Grip ‘A remarkable piece of work. It is a strange, unusual and beautiful book with an incredibly unique setting. I don't think I've read anything quite like it. It is compulsive reading. True crime. Memoir. History. How do you live a life honestly and with dignity? It's difficult to categorise because it traverses so many genres. But it WORKS.’ Matthew Condon, author of the Three Crooked Kings trilogy ‘On its face this is the story of a family steeped in the pursuit of the perfect ram, but beneath the surface lies a riveting and ribald tale of lust, loss, manipulation, unbridled ambition and ultimately murder.’ Mark Tedeschi AM QC and author of Eugenia, Kidnapped and Murder at Myall Creek ‘An unforgettable, courageous and deeply tragic local story which manages to become a universal tale’ Gregory Day, author of Archipelago of Souls and A Sand Archive ‘It’s got it all: sex, domestic violence, ‘the land’ – such an important concept resonating in the Australian mind – land-holders and property, privilege, prejudice, skulduggery and murder!’ David Bradford, author of The Gunners’ Doctor and Tell Me I’m OkayDerek Walcott: Politics and Poetics
By Paula Burnett. 2017
?An important contribution to the study of Walcott?s poetry and plays.??Modernism/modernity ?Walcott, [Burnett] says, has assimilated western tradition to his…
own project, using it to create a new plural world of open-ended possibilities. . . . A book that should be of interest to any student of Walcott?s literature.??Times Higher Education Supplement ?This ambitious book takes in the full corpus of Walcott?plays, essays, interviews, etc., as well as the poetry?and argues the essential unity of his (humanistic) vision.??Wasafiri ?Burnett is very good on Walcott?s aesthetic and technical strategies, particularly the mythopoeic framework of his thought, and the epic form which he frequently employs.??New West Indian Guide ?Convincingly suggests that Walcott?s art radiates outward from St. Lucia to the West Indies, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Americas, becoming an art that honors and enlarges the English language and its multiple histories and usages.??World Literature TodayDalí joven, Dalí Genial
By Ian Gibson. 2004
¿Cómo llegó Dalí a ser Dalí? ¿Quién se escondía detrás de la máscara del Gran Exhibicionista posterior? Gibson nos descubre…
las raíces ampurdanesas de Dalí y su familia antes de llevarnos en un apasionante periplo a Barcelona, Madrid -con Lorca y Buñuel en primer plano- y París, trazando con mano magistral la trayectoria que, en diez años, lleva al figuerense desde el impresionismo hasta el surrealismo. El encuentro con Gala, y la compra al año siguiente de la barraca de pescadores al pie del cabo de Creus significan el inicio de una nueva etapa en la vida del pintor. En este libro el protagonista es el fabuloso Dalí joven cuya ambición es ser tan famoso -o más- que Picasso. «¡Dígales que yo fui surrealista antes de conocer a Gala!». Con solicitud tan imperiosa Salvador Dalí dio fin a la emotiva entrevista concedida a Ian Gibson en 1986, poco antes de su muerte. Reseña:«Un relato ágil y ameno, por supuesto bien documentado y esmaltado con análisis de los cuadros más importantes, que sigue los pasos de Dalí desde su infancia hasta su triunfo en el París de los surrealistas.»El CulturalCursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann
By Frederic Spotts. 2016
Son of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann’s…
comparatively short life was as artistically productive as it was devastatingly dislocated. Best-known today as the author of Mephisto, the literary enfant terrible of the Weimar era produced seven novels, a dozen plays, four biographies, and three autobiographies—among them the first works in Germany to tackle gay issues—amidst a prodigious artistic output. He was among the first to take up his pen against the Nazis, as a reward for which he was blacklisted and denounced as a dangerous half-Jew, his books burnt in public squares around Germany, and his citizenship revoked. Having served with the U.S. military in Italy, he was nevertheless undone by anti-Communist fanatics in Cold War-era America and Germany, dying in France (though not, as all other books contend, by his own hand) at age forty-two. Powerful, revealing, and compulsively readable, this first English-language biography of Klaus Mann charts the effects of reactionary politics on art and literature and tells the moving story of a supreme talent destroyed by personal circumstance and the seismic events of the twentieth century.The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana
By Todd Tietchen. 2010
Immediately after the Cuban Revolution, Havana fostered an important transnational intellectual and cultural scene. Later, Castro would strictly impose his…
vision of Cuban culture on the populace and the United States would bar its citizens from traveling to the island, but for these few fleeting years the Cuban capital was steeped in many liberal and revolutionary ideologies and influences.Some of the most prominent figures in the Beat Movement, including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Amiri Baraka, were attracted to the new Cuba as a place where people would be racially equal, sexually free, and politically enfranchised. What they experienced had resounding and lasting literary effects both on their work and on the many writers and artists they encountered and fostered.Todd Tietchen clearly documents the multiple ways in which the Beats engaged with the scene in Havana. He also demonstrates that even in these early years the Beat movement expounded a diverse but identifiable politics.Correr el tupido velo
By Pilar Donoso. 2019
Una extraordinaria, brutal y honesta investigación sobre la figura del padre El escritor José Donoso dejó en universidades de Estados…
Unidos más de sesenta y cuatro cuadernos, sus diarios, donde registró procesos creativos, pasiones, odios, inseguridades y contradicciones. En ellos #y en las memorias que publicó su madre# se sumerge Pilar Donoso, entrando en las profundidades más dolorosas y oscuras de su historia familiar. Con ese material, escribe uno de los más grandes textos sobre la figura del padre. ¿Se llega a conocer realmente a los padres alguna vez? Pilar Donoso intenta descubrir al suyo y construye una valiente y honesta biografía familiar. Inevitablemente, esto le significó pasar por el doloroso proceso de reevaluar su vida y su identidad.Imagined by Oscar Wilde's own grandson, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of the poet, playwright and gay martyr.Renowned…
for his endlessly quotable pronouncements, Oscar Wilde cut a dashing figure in late Victorian London ... until his tragic downfall resulting from an ill-judged libel action. We remember him not only for his famous trial and imprisonment, but also for a "devil's dictionary" of timeless aphorisms and for the enduring brilliance of plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde's life resembles his early short story, "The Remarkable Rocket", which, rising from nowhere in a shower of sparks, explodes and falls to earth, exclaiming as it goes out, "I knew I should create a great sensation." Merlin Holland expertly traces the arc of his illustrious ancestor's life, from his birth in Dublin in 1854 as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, to a brilliant career at Oxford University where his reputation for dandyish wit was first honed, through to his conquest of the drawing rooms and theatres of fashionable London, culminating in disgrace and imprisonment at the hands of the Marquess of Queensberry in the most notorious libel trial in English history. Wilde died in penury and obscurity in 1900, yet his reputation today has never been greater. This engaging and innovative short book features a concise biographical essay on Wilde's meteoric career, followed by a Q&A interview based on Wilde's own words and Merlin Holland's unrivalled knowledge of his grandfather's life, work and puckish observations. This sparkling biography does full justice to Oscar Wilde's writerly genius and irrepressible humanity. It offers readers a renewed appreciation for a man who at times scadalised his era as much as he delights our own.Imagined by one of the world's leading experts on Casanova, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of history's most…
famous lover.A quiet chat with Casanova turns into a catalogue of racy encounters set in 18th-century Venice and other cities ... and we can even ask questions! You'll find out just how he got himself both in and out of some extremely sticky situations, from debt and imprisonment, to confrontations with jealous husbands and even heartbreak. Renowned as a great lover and seducer, Casanova was far more than a bed hopping rake. He founded the world's first national lottery, discussed theories of taxation with Frederick the Great, debated the merits of the Gregorian calendar with Catherine the Great, talked theology with Pope Clement XIII, lectured on Horace and Homer, and gave a public recital of his own poem on the Passion of the Christ. He was also an accomplished swindler, an extraordinary wit, a brilliant philosopher, a formidable duellist, and a notable spy.The impressive scale of Casanova's many gifts - and vices - is brought brilliantly to life in this innovative biography. A concise biographical essay is followed by a scintillating dialogue that is as historically rigorous as it is entertaining. As Dita Von Teese says in her Foreword: "In my most amorous fantasies, I spend languid days and glittering nights with a true 'Casanova'-- a man with a heartfelt passion for life, a thirst for knowledge and adventure, and of course a lust for refined romance." Be seduced by this brilliant book.Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention
By Donna Freitas. 2018
"Consent is compelling and disturbing and a welcome expansion of our urgent conversation"--Rebecca Traister Donna Freitas has lived two lives.…
In one life, she is a well-published author and respected scholar who has traveled around the country speaking about Title IX, consent, religion, and sex on college campuses. In the other, she is a victim, a woman who suffered and suffers still because she was stalked by her graduate professor for more than two years. As a doctoral candidate, Freitas loved asking big questions, challenging established theories and sinking her teeth into sacred texts. She felt at home in the library, and safe in the book-lined offices of scholars whom she admired. But during her first year, one particular scholar became obsessed with Freitas' academic enthusiasm. He filled her student mailbox with letters and articles. He lurked on the sidewalk outside her apartment. He called daily and left nagging voicemails. He befriended her mother, and made himself comfortable in her family's home. He wouldn't go away. While his attraction was not overtly sexual, it was undeniably inappropriate, and most importantly--unwanted. In Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention, Donna Freitas delivers a forensic examination of the years she spent stalked by her professor, and uses her nightmarish experience to examine the ways in which we stigmatize, debate, and attempt to understand consent today.Chaucer: A European Life
By Marion Turner. 2019
A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant’s son became one of the most celebrated…
of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life—yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer’s adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination.Uncovering important new information about Chaucer’s travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer’s experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter’s nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer’s writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales.By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant’s son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales.Cambiar de idea (Caballo de Troya 2019, #Volumen 2)
By Aixa de la Cruz. 2019
Aixa de la Cruz firma una adictiva y brutal crónica en primera persona sobre su paso a la treintena. Cambiar…
de idea es un giro radical en la escritura de su autora, un punto de inflexión idóneo para reflexionar sobre el paso a la edad adulta. «He tardado diez años de lecturas, y fiestas, y conversaciones con las mejores mentes de mi época en entender que el avatar de hombre es el traje nuevo del emperador [...]. Mi propio y escasísimo caché como mujer que escribe se ha desmoronado desde que dejé de escribir como los chicos: con voces falsamente neutrales, con personajes que pasan de puntillas por su género y se hermanan desde lahiperviolencia y las parafilias. Eso es lo que los editores que no publican a mujeres quieren que escribamos las mujeres. Los editores que no publican a mujeres andan locos por publicar a mujeres que escriban de una determinada manera, para refrendar que la subjetividad masculina es la subjetividad universal. Sus autores pueden ser sentimentales e intimistas, pero sus autoras siempre estarán estancadas en la impostura de lo masculino.» A punto de cumplir los treinta, Aixa de la Cruz pone en marcha la escritura de unas memorias que recorren algunos de los momentos más significativos de su vida: desde el día en que una de sus mejores amigas sufre un fatídico accidente de coche hasta el divorcio de la autora; desde las consecuencias de escribir una tesis doctoral hasta sus relaciones sexuales con otras mujeres; desde una infancia en la que maduró sin un «biopadre» hasta su descubrimiento del feminismo. Cambiar de idea ofrece una escritura hipnótica que va mucho más allá de la simple exposición de la primera persona: el relato del yo sirve para vehicular agudas reflexiones sobre diferentes temas de calado social y para desplegar un estilo literario rico y combativo, que posiciona a Aixa de la Cruz no ya como una de las mejores narradoras de su generación, sino también -y sobre todo- como una pensadora brillante.Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
By Brian Jay Jones. 2019
The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work…
has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly, simple rhymes are a bottomless well of magic, his illustrations timeless favorites because, quite simply, he makes us laugh. The Grinch, the Cat in the Hat, Horton, and so many more, are his troupe of beloved, and uniquely Seussian, creations. Theodor Geisel, however, had a second, more radical side. It is there that the allure and fasciation of his Dr. Seuss alter ego begins. He had a successful career as an advertising man and then as a political cartoonist, his personal convictions appearing, not always subtly, throughout his books—remember the environmentalist of The Lorax? Geisel was a complicated man on an important mission. He introduced generations to the wonders of reading while teaching young people about empathy and how to treat others well. Agonizing over word choices and rhymes, touching up drawings sometimes for years, he upheld a rigorous standard of perfection for his work. Geisel took his responsibility as a writer for children seriously, talking down to no reader, no matter how small. And with classics like Green Eggs and Ham, and One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Geisel delighted them while they learned. Suddenly, reading became fun. Coming right of the heels off George Lucas and bestselling Jim Henson, Brian Jay Jones is quickly developing a reputation as a master biographer of the creative geniuses of our time.Autobiographical Writing by Early Modern Hispanic Women
By Elizabeth Teresa Howe. 2015
Women’s life writing in general has too often been ignored, dismissed, or relegated to a separate category in those few…
studies of the genre that include it. The present work addresses these issues and offers a countervailing argument that focuses on the contributions of women writers to the study of autobiography in Spanish during the early modern period. There are, indeed, examples of autobiographical writing by women in Spain and its New World empire, evident as early as the fourteenth-century Memorias penned by Doña Leonor López de Cordóba and continuing through the seventeenth-century Cartas of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. What sets these accounts apart, the author shows, are the variety of forms adopted by each woman to tell her life and the circumstances in which she adapts her narrative to satisfy the presence of male critics-whether ecclesiastic or political, actual or imagined-who would dismiss or even alter her life story. Analyzing how each of these women viewed her life and, conversely, how their contemporaries-both male and female-received and sometimes edited her account, Howe reveals the tension in the texts between telling a ’life’ and telling a ’lie’.