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Blackbird
By Jennifer Lauck. 2000
To young Jenny, the house on Mary Street was home -- the place where she was loved, a blue-sky world…
of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kiss on the cheek. But when everything that Jenny had come to rely on begins to crumble, an odyssey of loss, loneliness, and a child's will to survive takes flight....Black Sun
By Geoffrey Wolff. 1976
Includes an afterword by the author. Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest…
Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of the senses in the pursuit of transcendent revelation: these were Crosby's pastimes until 1929, when he shot his girlfriend, the recent bride of another man, and then himself. Black Sun is novelist and master biographer Geoffrey Wolff's subtle and striking picture of a man who killed himself to make his life a work of art.The essential gesture: writing, politics and places
By Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Clingman. 1988
This personal history of 27 years, 1959 to 1986, of Afrikaner domination in South Africa charts the response of novelist…
Nadine Gordimer to the crisis of apartheid and the struggle of the blacks to free themselves. 1988.The doctor and the detective: a biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
By Martin Booth. 1997
Biography of the Scottish author best known for his fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes. Discusses various aspects of this Victorian gentleman's…
life and interests. Knighted for patriotism, Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a medical doctor, war correspondent, cricket player, political activist, family man, and a devout spiritualist. 2000, c1997.Stay me, oh comfort me: journals and stories, 1933-1941
By M. F. K Fisher. 1993
Shortly before her death in 1992, Fisher decided to publish a memoir about the end of her first marriage and…
her brief, tragic second marriage. She wanted a record of how she felt at the time instead of a version reinterpreted by her older self. Fisher put together unpublished letters, short stories, and excerpts from journals of that period to tell her story. Sequel to "Long Ago in France" .1993.Ranch of dreams: the heartwarming story of America's most unusual animal sanctuary
By Cleveland Amory. 1997
A noted animal lover recounts the childhood influences that formed his anticruelty outlook and led him to found the Black…
Beauty Ranch, a refuge for abused and abandoned animals. Tells the stories of the cats, dogs, goats, horses, and other creatures that have found sanctuary with the author. 1997.Press gang: post-war life in the world of Canadian newspapers
By James B Lamb. 1979
Lamb has worked as a reporter, editor and publisher for 26 years. While stories and anecdotes are included, this memoir…
comments on the disappearance of the small-town newspaper's individuality which results from the take-over by chain newspapers. 1979.Paul Scott: a life of the author of the Raj quartet
By Hilary Spurling. 1990
Scott, the author of the Raj Quartet series, actually had very little experience of India. He was a man with…
a lively imagination and a sense of history and place. Chronicles his youth in North London, his war years in India and the Far East, and the development of his craft as a writer. 1990.Old books, rare friends: two literary sleuths and their shared passion
By Leona Rostenberg, Madeleine B Stern. 1997
A joint autobiography of two lifelong friends and partners in the antiquarian book trade. Traces their lives from girlhood in…
the early 1900s, their careers as scholars and writers, and their fifty years in the rare book business. The authors recount their contributions to the literary world. 1997.Nora: the real life of Molly Bloom
By Brenda Maddox. 1988
In this detailed biography of Nora Barnacle, James Joyce's wife, the author's premise is that Joyce's obsession about Nora's previous…
affairs was the driving force behind his writing. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1988.Melville: a biography
By Laurie Robertson-Lorant. 1996
A portrait of the adventurous author of the 1851 American classic "Moby Dick." Draws upon family letters discovered in 1983…
to reveal insights into Melville's complex identity, family life, and personal beliefs about war, slavery, and social injustice. Violence. 1996.Life work
By Donald Hall. 1993
Hall's extended meditation on the importance of work examines the legacy of his forebears for clues to his devotion. He…
reflects on his love of being absorbed in what he does, which in his case is writing. For his father it was office work, and for his grandfather it was farming on the property where Hall and his poet wife Jane Kenyon live. Facing the prospect of a shortened life due to illness, Hall takes care to see that his work keeps him alive. 1993.Life of a poet: Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ralph Freedman. 1996
This biography of the notable European poet is divided into two "books": "The Young Poet" and "The Master." Freedman details…
the contradictions between the poet's inspired work and his heartless treatment of those around him. Rilke's great works and extensive travels are chronicled, as well as his numerous affairs and courting of wealthy benefactors. 1996.Mailer: a biography
By Mary V Dearborn. 1999
Portrait of the pugnacious celebrity writer Norman Mailer. Chronicles the trajectory of his career, from his 1948 bestseller "The naked…
and the dead" to the publication of his collected writings fifty years later, and relates his work to his colourful public life. Some strong language. 1999.Langston Hughes: Poet (Black Americans of achievement)
By Coretta Scott King, Jack Rummel. 1988
Langston Hughes spent much of his childhood alone. His father moved abroad before he was born, and his mother left…
him often in her search for work. In 1920, upon his graduation from high school, Hughes went to see his father in Mexico, where he had become quite wealthy. Hughes rejected his father's plan that he study engineering and determined to become a poet, writing his first published pieces that summer. Grades 5-8 and older. 1988.Landscapes of the heart: a memoir
By Elizabeth Spencer. 1998
Recollections of the twentieth-century southern writer known for her short stories and novels. Spencer describes her formative years in Carrollton,…
Mississippi. She explains how her education at Vanderbilt University expanded her world. Spencer also discusses her friendships with Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow, and John Cheever, among other authors. 1998.Kahlil Gibran, man and poet: a new biography
By Joe Jenkins, Suheil B Bushrui. 1998
Biography of the poet, artist, and mystic. Describes his relatively short life--he was born in a Lebanese village in 1883…
and died in New York in 1931. Discusses his writings and artistic temperament. Analyzes his fame in the Arab-speaking world and his popularity in the West. 1998.Jack London: a life
By Alex Kershaw. 1997
A portrait of the legendary author whose extraordinary life was as adventurous as his stories. Traces his deprived childhood, his…
years at rugged maritime labour, his bold expeditions, and his literary renown, which he regarded as phony and unsatisfying. 1997.In my own time: almost an autobiography
By Nina Bawden. 1994
Memoir of a novelist. Recounts her childhood evacuation from London in World War II; her years at Oxford, where she…
knew Richard Burton and Margaret Thatcher; and her later life. Relates stories of her family, including the struggles of her schizophrenic son, who committed suicide. Junior and senior high readers. 1994.Foreign correspondences: a traveler's tales
By Lesley Krueger. 2000
Weaving her own story of travel and living abroad around a patchwork of her grandmothers' stories, journalist Lesley Krueger explores…
concepts and themes that have reverberated through her life - expatriation, the nature of being foreign, the importance of place and community. She discovers that a family's mythologies can shape the decisions of its members in unexpected ways. 2000.