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A Writer's Diary

by Virginia Woolf

An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, others...


Diary Of Anais Nin Volume 3 1939-1944: Vol. 3 (1939-1944)

by Anais Nin

Nin's years of struggle and final triumph as an author in America. "Transcending mere self-revelation... the diary examines human personality with a depth and understanding seldom surpassed since Proust...dream...


Diary Of Anais Nin Volume 2 1934-1939: Vol. 2 (1934-1939)

by Anais Nin

Beginning with Nin's arrival in New York, this volume is filled with the stories of her analytical patients. There is a shift in emphasis also as Nin becomes aware of the inevitable choice facing the artist...


The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)

by Anais Nin

This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther tuhlmann; Index.


South to a Very Old Place

Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry

by Donald Hall

Donald Hall's invaluable record of the making of a poet begins with his childhood in Depression-era suburban Connecticut, where as the doted-upon son of dramatically thwarted parents he first realized poetry...


The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon

by Donald Hall

A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald Hall

In an intimate record of his twenty-three-year marriage to poet Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall recounts...


A Voice from Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth

by Louis Auchincloss

At the time of his death, Louis Auchincloss—enemy of bores, self-pity, and gossip less than fresh—had just finished taking on a subject he had long avoided: himself. His memoir confirms that, despite the...


This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind

by Ivan Doig

This work introduced a major modern author to the reading public. Doig’s life was formed among the sheepherders and other denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches as he wandered beside his restless...


Heart Earth

by Ivan Doig

Ivan Doig grew up with only a vague memory of his mother, Berneta, who died on his sixth birthday. Then he discovered a cache of her letters--and through them, a spunky, passionate, can-do woman as at home in...


The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws

by Margaret Drabble

The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and...


The White Door: Four Novellas

by Stephen Chan

The White Door is a fictionalised account of growing up Chinese in New Zealand by a scholar, diplomat and martial artist.

“Stephen Chan’s novel is a magical masterpiece that fascinates and moves the reader...


Jane Austen

by Helen Lefroy

Jane Austen's reputation rests on the six novels she wrote in her short life - enduringly popular novels which have become part of the fabric of English life, and which have reached new audiences through recent...


The Shakespeare Diaries: A Fictional Autobiography

by J. P. P. Wearing

Blending fact with fiction and written in diary form, this unique biography of Shakespeare encapsulates his life like never before—from his views on daily events to vivid impressions of the Elizabethan era...


Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934-1938

by Anais Nin

In this “erotically charged”(Publishers Weekly) diary that picks up where Incest left off, Nin chronicles a restless search for fulfillment that leads her to New York City-”that brilliant giant toy”...


Seventy Years Young: Memoirs of Elizabeth, Countess of Fingall

by Pamela Hinkson

This book is one of the most remarkable and the most entertaining of its kind ever published about late Victorian and Edwardian Ireland.' - Peter Costello, Sunday Independent. 'A woman of considerable style...


Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

Costa Book Award for Biography 2002

by Claire Tomalin

For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin...


Cheever

National Book Critics Circle for Biography 2009

by Blake Bailey

John Cheever spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. Written with unprecedented access to essential sources—including...


Making an Elephant: Writing from Within

by Graham Swift

In his first-ever work of nonfiction, Graham Swift—Booker Prize-winning author of Waterland and Last Orders—gives us a highly personal book: a singular and open-spirited account of a writer’s life.

 

Here...


A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East

by Tiziano Terzani

Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for a whole year, Tiziano Terzani — a vastly experienced Asia correspondent — took what he called “the first step into an unknown world. . . . It...