George, Being George by -
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Category: Literary
Norman Mailer said that George Plimpton was the best-loved man in New York. For more than fifty years, his friends made a circle whose circumference was vast and whose center was a fashionable tenement on New York's East Seventy-second street. Taxi drivers, hearing his address, would ask, "Isn't that Ge ...Show more
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell by Elizabeth Bishop & Robert Lowell (ed Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton)
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Category: Literary
When first introduced to Robert Lowell in 1947, Elizabeth Bishop wrote that 'he was living in a basement room on Third Avenue ...and was rather untidy. He was wearing a rumpled dark blue suit ...I took to him at once.' Lowell was equally taken by Bishop, and thought she had 'more to offer, I think, than ...Show more
Apology for the Woman Writing by Jenny Diski
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Category: Literary
Marie de Gournay was eighteen when she read, and was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met Montaigne, she stabbed herself with a hairpin until the blood ran in order to show her devotion. He made her his adopted daughte ...Show more
Graham Greene: A Life In Letters by Richard Greene
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Category: Literary
One of the undisputed masters of English prose in the twentieth century, Graham Greene (1904-91) wrote tens of thousands of personal letters. This substantial volume presents a new and engrossing account of his life constructed out of his own words. Meticulously chosen and engagingly annotated, this sel ...Show more
The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas : The edge of love by Dylan Thomas
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Category: Literary
THE EDGE OF LOVE is a beautiful, heart-rending account of the point in Dylan Thomas's life that he was torn between two women. His letters to the many women in his life are among the most beautiful and lyrical he wrote. Provoked mostly by separations, they are cajoling, apologetic, uninhibited, tactical ...Show more
The Same Man : George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War by David Lebedoff
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Category: Literary
For literature buffs and history enthusiasts, this is the first biography to compare George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh, two of the greatest 20th century English writers. First published 2008.
Christina Stead by Hazel Rowley
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Category: Literary
A new edition of the bestselling biography on Christina Stead that won the 1993 National Book Award for Non Fiction, Australia's equivalent of the Pulitzer. In the United States, it was a 1994 "New York Times" Notable Book. Christina Stead, born in Australia in 1902, sailed to England at the age of twen ...Show more
The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships by Robert B. Silvers
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Category: Literary
"Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other. " Many of the illustrious contributors to "The New York Review of Books" have had deep and abiding relationships-both personal and intellectual-with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature ...Show more
Borges - A Life by Edwin Williamson
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Category: Literary
Edwin Williamson's major new biography is the first in any language to encompass the entire span of Jorge Luis Borges's life and work. Drawing upon previously unknown or unavailable sources, it brings out the human side of Borges: his roots in Argentina, the evolution of his political ideas, his relatio ...Show more
The Groucho Letters : Letters from and to Graucho Marx by Groucho Marx & others
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Category: Literary
THE GROUCHO LETTERS enjoys the very best of Groucho's correspondence with the greatest wits and minds of his day. Correspondents include James Thurber, T.S. Eliot, President Harry Truman, Edward R. Murrow, Jerry Lewis, Howard Hughes, Irving Berlin and of course, Chico, Harpo and Gummo. He writes to com ...Show more
Flaubert - A Life by Geoffrey Wall
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Category: Literary
A blond giant of a man with green eyes and a resonant actor's voice, Gustave Flaubert was perhaps the finest French writer of the nineteenth century. He lived quietly in the provinces with his widowed mother, composing his novels at the rate of five words an hour. He detested his respectable neighbors, ...Show more
Life Stories - Profiles from The New Yorker by David Remnick
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Category: Literary | Series: Modern Library
a Dazzling collection of biographical profiles of some of the most important and most captivating figures of our century.