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Every love story is a ghost story: a life of David Foster Wallace
By D. T. Max. 2012
Biography of David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), author of Infinite Jest (DB 44028). Details Wallace's youth in Urbana, Illinois, and the…
development of his writing career. Discusses his personal relationships, drug addiction, and mental-health issues. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2012A difficult woman: the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman
By Alice Kessler-Harris. 2012
Columbia history professor places the life of playwright and memoirist Hellman (1905-1984) in the context of twentieth-century upheavals. Chronicles her…
Jewish family's southern background and Hellman's own New York upbringing, marriage, and affairs. Discusses her personality, friends, and political and social beliefs. 2012Phillis Wheatley: biography of a genius in bondage
By Vincent Carretta. 2011
Uses primary documents to chronicle the life of the African American poet (1753-1784). Discusses Wheatley's relationships with her Bostonian owners…
John and Susanna Wheatley, the fame she achieved in England, and her marriage to free black man John Peters. Includes previously unpublished work. 2011Cartas a un joven novelista
By Mario Vargas Llosa. 2011
De forma epistolar, el autor ganador del Premio Nobel ofrece su visión sobre la génesis de las novelas. Al considerar…
las obras de Hugo, Cervantes, Hemingway, y Faulkner, entre otros, Vargas Llosa examina el arte de narrar y la vocación de la ficciónLa casa verde (Punto de lectura #4/14)
By Mario Vargas Llosa. 2008
La segunda novela por el autor ganador del Premio Nobel que tiene lugar en el desierto y las selvas de…
Perú. Don Anselmo construye un burdel en las afueras de Piura; la novicia Bonifacia sigue su conciencia en la misión de Santa María de Nieva, con resultados sorprendentes. Publicado originalmente en 1966. Algunas descripciones de violencia y de índole sexualRedentores: ideas y poder en América Latina
By Enrique Krauze. 2012
Presenta perfiles de doce figuras seminales de la política, la filosofía, y la literatura latinoamericana que han dejado una marca…
indeleble en la región. Entre ellos José Martí, José Enrique Rodó, Octavio Paz, Eva Perón, Che Guevara, Gabriel García Márquez, y Samuel RuizBookmarked: teen essays on life and literature from Tolkien to Twilight
By Ann Ann Camacho, Ann Camacho. 2012
Fifty essays by young adults, grouped into five different themes. Contributors--such as immigrant Raymond Yeung, who learned about making life…
choices from the Harry Potter series--reflect on their connections to literary works. Includes sections for further discussions and a teaching guide. For senior high and older readers. 2012Lots of candles, plenty of cake
By Anna Quindlen. 2012
In a series of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and bestselling novelist reminisces about her life and the process of aging.…
Contemplates the feminist revolution, mortality, family, and the importance of girlfriends in a woman's life. Bestseller. 2012My dyslexia
By Philip Schultz. 2011
Memoir of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who was labeled a failure in school because of his undiagnosed dyslexia. Schultz describes his…
efforts to read and write, the way his brain works, and the effects of his disability on his social and emotional life. 2011The grey album: on the blackness of blackness
By Kevin Young. 2012
Poet explores the influence of storytelling on literature and music in African-American culture. Examines encoded spirituals in the time of…
slavery, works of the Harlem Renaissance, and rap and hip-hop of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. 2012Wolf: the lives of Jack London
By James L. Haley. 2011
Biography of adventurer Jack London (1876-1916), author of The Call of the Wild (DB 49486). Chronicles London's impoverished childhood as…
the illegitimate son of a spiritualist medium in San Francisco, his menial jobs and itinerant life, turn to socialism, and literary success. Spur Award. 2010Why be happy when you could be normal?
By Jeanette Winterson. 2012
Award-winning British author highlights her lifelong search for happiness and love. Adopted by an abusive religious woman, Winterson was forced…
out of the house at sixteen when her sexual orientation was discovered but still managed to obtain an Oxford education and literary success. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2011Arthur Miller: 1915-1962
By Christopher Bigsby, C. W. E Bigsby. 2009
Focuses on the early life of American playwright Arthur Miller (d. 2005), exploring the forces that shaped him and ideas…
he grappled with in his writing. Examines Miller's marriage to Marilyn Monroe and analyzes his principal works, including Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and the film The Misfits. 2009Hemingway's boat: everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961
By Paul Hendrickson. 2011
Explores the last twenty-seven years of the life of writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) and describes the solace that he found…
aboard his fishing boat Pilar, which he obtained in 1934. Discusses both Hemingway's literary career and his family, including his cross-dressing youngest son Gregory. Some strong language. 2011Why Orwell matters
By Christopher Hitchens. 2002
Essayist explores the life and work of George Orwell (1903-1950), best known as the author of 1984 and Animal Farm.…
Discusses Orwell's political beliefs and the ways they were shaped by the times in which he lived. Challenges Orwell's critics and argues that his ideas remain relevant. 2002The memory palace
By Mira Bartok, Mira Bartók. 2011
Children's book author/illustrator describes suffering from a brain injury received in a 1999 car accident when she was forty; reuniting…
with her mother, a homeless schizophrenic, in 2006 after a seventeen-year separation; and discovering a storage room filled with family memorabilia. Nat'l Book Critics Circle Award. 2011Out with it: gay and straight teens write about homosexuality
By Youth Communication, Al Desetta. 2009
Compilation of personal stories and essays written by teens--gay and straight--describes their conflicts with the homosexual identity, attempts to establish…
relationships, and struggles for acceptance. For senior high and older readers. 2009John Milton: a hero of our time
By David Hawkes. 2009
Scholar examines the life of John Milton (1608-1674), a noted English poet and the author of Paradise Lost (DB 31889).…
Explains Milton's perspectives on politics, religion, and social order and the relevance of his work to the modern reader. 2009Robert A. Heinlein: in dialogue with his century / Volume I, 1907-1948, Learning curve
By William H. Patterson. 2010
Portrait of award-winning science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988). This first volume of two focuses on Heinlein's earlier years,…
covering his time in the navy, political aspirations, three marriages, quirky nudist tendencies, and more. 2010The Mabinogion (Oxford World's Classics)
By Sioned Davies. 2007
Eleven medieval Welsh tales with themes of Celtic mythology and Arthurian romance, love and betrayal, shape-shifting and enchantment, conflict and…
retribution. Translation by Sioned Davies based on two manuscripts dated between 1382 and c. 1410, both rooted in the oral tradition of storytellers. 2007