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Find out about Zora Neale Hurston, a pioneering writer and anthropologist, in this beautifully designed and engaging biography for young readers. Learn about her life and uncover how she used the power of her pen to tell stories about herself and the lives of...

From childhood, Ma Thida dreamed of helping others--caring for the sick, sharing information despite censorship, and standing up for people's rights. To stand against the oppression that had been stifling Myanmar's progress for decades, she joined Aung San Suu Kyi and the many other...

Find out about Maya Angelou, a talented poet, writer, teacher, and speaker, in this beautifully designed and engaging biography for young readers. Learn about her life and uncover how she used the power of her pen to tell stories about herself and the lives...

Find out about Alice Walker, a gifted writer and outspoken activist, in this beautifully designed and engaging biography for young readers. Learn about her life and uncover how she used the power of her pen to tell stories about herself and the lives of...

"Dave Moore's work on this collection is simply awesome.... It should become and remain the definitive reference book for Beat scholars forever." --Carolyn CassadyNeal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouac's muse and the basis for the character "Dean Moriarty" in Kerouac's classic...

Robert Cochran's Haunted Man's Report is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis (1933-2020), best known for the novel True Grit and its film adaptations. Hailed by one critic as "the author of classics on the order of...

Robert Cochran's Haunted Man's Report is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis (1933-2020), best known for the novel True Grit and its film adaptations. Hailed by one critic as "the author of classics on the order of...

Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world's best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twain's favorite and most memorable writings includes selected tales and sketches such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, How I...

Occurring in a time of primitive medicine and inconsistent record-keeping, Poe's death has become one of the enduring mysteries of American literature. David F. Gaylin's book marks the first attempt to offer a comprehensive and balanced study of this historical event. After chronicling the...

Deeply intimate encounters between the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral and the greatest writers and artists of the 20th century--from Primo Levi and Milan Kundera to Edna O'Brien and Philip Guston. "Roth manages to tease from his subjects the convictions that fuel...

One of America's most beloved authors and a master of the personal essay, Willie Morris (1934-1999) wrote nineteen books and hundreds of articles and reflections. To honor his memory on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth (November 29, 1934), My Two Oxfords is a...

Madeleine L'Engle is perhaps best recognized as the author of A Wrinkle in Time, the enduring milestone work of fantasy fiction that won the 1963 John Newbery Medal for excellence in children's literature and has enthralled millions of readers for the past fifty years....

"[A] civilized discourse between two cultivated and sophisticated men. . . . It's a pleasure to be in their company." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available...

From the acclaimed author of Foreskin's Lament, a memoir of the author's attempt to escape the biblical story he'd been raised on and his struggle to construct a new story for himself and his family Shalom Auslander was raised like a veal in a...

A single-volume edition of Diary, Gombrowicz's acclaimed masterpiece, now with previously unpublished pages restored Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in...

A Joyous Transformation marks the end of Anaïs Nin's 35,000-page diary, the publication of which began in 1966 with the heavily edited Diary of Anaïs Nin. It chronicles Nin's final years, which were spent in the glow of newfound fame and at battle with...

A grippingly honest account of how one man succeeded in filling the emptiness at the core of his soul. --RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People One of the most important memoirs of the spirit I've ever read....

From the acclaimed novelist ("A virtuoso"--Donna Seaman, Booklist), a deft, shocking memoir that asks whether we can judge past behavior by today's moral codes, as the author reevaluates her decades-long marriage to the forty-seven-year-old man she met when she was seventeen, revisiting a singular...

He was the most social of writers, and at the height of his career, he was the very nexus of the glamorous worlds of the arts, politics and society, a position best exemplified by his still legendary Black and White Ball. Truman truly knew...

Georgina Lzaro presents the life of Rubn Daro, father of Modernism, in this new addition to the award-winning series Cuando los grandes eran pequeos.Author: Georgina Laazaro LeaonPublisher: Lectorum PublicationsPublished: 02/15/2017Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 11.10h x 8.70w x 0.40dISBN: 9781632456410Language: SpanishAudience: Ages 9-12This title is...