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- "Where did you go?" "Out." "What did you do?" "Nothing."
- --where love begins
- A Hemingway odyssey : special places in his life
- A William Maxwell portrait : memories and appreciations
- A backward glance
- A bridge of childhood : Truman Capote's southern years
- A chance meeting : intertwined lives of American writers and artists, 1854-1967
- A community of writers : Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers' Workshop
- A daring young man : a biography of William Saroyan
- A devil in paradise
- A drinking life : a memoir
- A fragment of autobiography; : the fun of writing the inside books
- A great and glorious romance : the story of Carl Sandburg and Lilian Steichen
- A house in Chicago
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A house on the heights
- A humming under my feet : a book of travail
- A kind of magic
- A little original sin : the life and work of Jane Bowles
- A lowcountry heart : reflections on a writing life
- A man without a country
- A mysterious something in the light : the life of Raymond Chandler
- A nation within a nation : Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black power politics
- A place in the country
- A private history of awe
- A private life of Henry James : two women and his art
- A short autobiography
- A small boy and others
- A son of the middle border
- A song flung up to heaven
- A splendid intelligence : the life of Elizabeth Hardwick
- A step from death : a memoir
- A three dog life
- A tragic honesty : the life and work of Richard Yates
- A voice from old New York : a memoir of my youth
- A welcoming life : the M.F.K. Fisher scrapbook
- A wider giving : women writing after a long silence
- About Alice
- Abuela in shadow, abuela in light
- Acid Christ : Ken Kesey, LSD and the politics of ecstasy
- Across Spoon River; : an autobiography
- Adrift among geniuses; : Robert McAlmon, writer and publisher of the twenties
- African silences
- After Kathy Acker : a literary biography
- After the good gay times; : Asheville, summer of '35, a season with F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Age and guile, beat youth, innocence, and a bad haircut : twenty-five years of P.J. O'Rourke
- Agnes Smedley, the life and times of an American radical
- Albums of early life
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Algren : a life
- Alice Walker
- Alice Walker : a life
- Alice Walker : a woman for our times
- All God's children need traveling shoes
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- All tomorrow's parties : a memoir
- Allen Tate
- Almost a family : a memoir
- Along with youth : Hemingway, the early years
- Always merry and bright : the life of Henry Miller : an unauthorized biography
- Ambrose Bierce : the making of a misanthrope
- America is in the heart : a personal history
- American Oz
- American diaries, 1902-1926
- American hunger
- American prose writers of World War I : a documentary volume
- American rhapsody : writers, musicians, movie stars, and one great building
- American rose : a nation laid bare : the life and times of Gypsy Rose Lee
- Among friends
- An American childhood
- An American childhood
- An American odyssey : Elia Kazan and American culture
- An extravagant hunger : the passionate years of M.F.K. Fisher
- An invisible spectator : a biography of Paul Bowles
- An involuntary genius in America's shoes (and what happened afterwards)
- Anais : the erotic life of Anais Nin
- Anaïs Nin : a biography
- And I worked at the writer's trade : chapters of literary history, 1918-1978
- And did you once see Sidney plain? : a random memoir of S.J. Perelman
- And everything is going fine
- Angelheaded hipster : a life of Jack Kerouac
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh : first lady of the air
- Another life : a memoir of other people
- Anzia Yezierska : a writer's life
- Apprenticed to Venus : my secret life with Anaïs Nin
- Ardent spirits : leaving home, coming back
- At the end of Ridge Road
- At the end of the road : Jack Kerouac in Mexico
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Author and agent : Eudora Welty and Diarmuid Russell
- Autobiography of my hungers
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Ayn Rand : in her own words
- B & me : a true story of literary arousal
- Backing into forward : a memoir
- Bad kid : a memoir
- Baldwin's Harlem : a biography of James Baldwin
- Because I was flesh; : the autobiography of Edward Dahlberg
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Ray Bradbury
- Before I forget
- Ben Hecht : fighting words, moving pictures
- Ben Hecht : the man behind the legend
- Best of Prairie schooner : personal essays
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Between worlds : the autobiography of Leo Lionni
- Black folk could fly : selected writings
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- Bobbed hair and bathtub gin : [writers running wild in the Twenties]
- Bobbed hair and bathtub gin : writers running wild in the Twenties
- Body
- Body geographic
- Bog-trotter : an autobiography with lyrics
- Borrowed finery : a memoir
- Boston boy
- Bradbury : an illustrated life : a journey to far metaphor
- Breath : a lifetime in the rhythm of an iron lung : a memoir
- Bu ceng zou guo zen hui dong de : Lots of candles, plenty of cake
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- Burning the days : recollection
- Burroughs
- Bygones; : the recollections of Louis Untermeyer
- Call it experience; : the years of learning how to write
- Capote : a biography
- Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era
- Cet ete-la a Paris : [roman]
- Chaplin and Agee : the untold story of the tramp, the writer, and the lost screenplay
- Charles Bukowski
- Charles Bukowski
- Charmed circle: Gertrude Stein & company
- Cheever : a life
- Child of light : a biography of Robert Stone
- Chong fan Chaling shi zi jie 84 hao : The Duchess of Bloomsbury street
- Chosen forever : [a memoir]
- City boy : my life in New York during the 1960s and '70s
- City kid : a writer's memoir of ghetto life and post-soul success
- Claude McKay : a black poet's struggle for identity
- Claude McKay : rebel sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance : a biography
- Climb : leaving safe and finding strength on 100 summits in Japan
- Close to the bone : memoirs of hurt, rage, and desire
- Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration
- Colonial affairs : Bowles, Burroughs, and Chester write Tangier
- Come back in September : a literary education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
- Congo solo : misadventures two degrees north
- Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier
- Conversations with Eudora Welty
- Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter, refugee from Indian Creek
- Conversations with Nelson Algren,
- Cooked seed : a memoir
- Cool, calm & contentious
- Cornell Woolrich--first you dream, then you die
- Cousins
- Criminals : my family's life on both sides of the law
- Cross Creek,
- Dad's maybe book
- Dalton Trumbo
- Damon Runyon
- Dangerous intimacy : the untold story of Mark Twain's final years
- Dangerous intimacy : the untold story of Mark Twain's final years
- Dashiell Hammett
- Dashiell Hammett : a daughter remembers
- Dashiell Hammett : man of mystery
- Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country
- Desert solitaire
- Desolate angel : Jack Kerouac, the Beat generation, and America
- Devils, lusts and strange desires : the life of Patricia Highsmith
- Diary
- Diary of a pigeon watcher
- Dictionary of literary biography yearbook
- Distant obligations : modern American writers and foreign causes
- Divine invasions : a life of Philip K. Dick
- Do-over! : in which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments
- Don't quit your day job : acclaimed authors and the day jobs they quit
- Don't tell the girls : a family memoir
- Donald Barthelme : the genesis of a cool sound
- Dorothy Parker
- Dorothy Parker : what fresh hell is this?
- Dorothy Parker in her own words
- Dorothy West's paradise : a biography of class and color
- Down and in : life in the underground
- Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel : a biography
- Dr. Seuss, the cat behind the hat
- Dreadful : the short life and gay times of John Horne Burns
- Dreamer of Dune : the biography of Frank Herbert
- Dust tracks on a road : an autobiography
- E.B. White : a biography
- Ecstasy of the beats : on the road to understanding
- Edgar Lee Masters : a biography
- Edith Wharton : an extraordinary life
- Edith Wharton's inner circle
- Edmund Wilson : a biography
- Edmund Wilson : a life in literature
- Edmund Wilson, our neighbor from Talcottville
- Edna Ferber : a biographical sketch with a bibliography
- Ekaterinoslav : one family's passage to America, a memoir in verse
- Elinor Wylie : a life apart : a biography
- Eliot's early years
- Emily Post : daughter of the Gilded Age, mistress of American manners
- Emily Post : daughter of the Gilded Age, mistress of American manners
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Epitaph for a desert anarchist : the life and legacy of Edward Abbey
- Erle Stanley Gardner : the case of the real Perry Mason
- Ernest
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Hemingway : a concise biography
- Ernest Hemingway : a documentary volume
- Ernest Hemingway : a literary life
- Ernest Hemingway : a new life
- Ernest Hemingway : grace under pressure
- Ernest Hemingway : wrestling with life
- Ernest Hemingway and his world
- Ernest Hemingway rediscovered
- Ernesto : the untold story of Hemingway in revolutionary Cuba
- Eudora Welty : a biography
- Ever the winds of chance
- Every day by the sun : a memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi
- Everybody's autobiography
- Everybody's autobiography
- Everything's bigger in Texas : the life and times of Kinky Friedman
- Ex-friends : falling out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel & Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer
- Exile's return; : a literary odyssey of the 1920s
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- F. Scott Fitzgerald : a literary life
- F. Scott Fitzgerald : under the influence
- F. Scott Fitzgerald in his own time: : a miscellany.
- Falling : a daughter, a father, and a journey back
- Fame became of him : Hemingway as public writer
- Familiar spirits : a memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson
- February house
- Feed the hungry : a memoir, with recipes
- Ferber, a biography
- Ferlinghetti, a biography
- Ferlinghetti, the artist in his time
- Finding Iris Chang : [friendship, ambition, and the loss of an extraordinary mind]
- Finding Iris Chang : friendship, ambition, and the loss of an extraordinary mind
- Finding Oz : how L. Frank Baum discovered the great American story
- Fish out of water : a search for the meaning of life : a memoir
- Fitzgerald and Hemingway : a dangerous friendship
- Flannery
- Flannery : a life of Flannery O'Connor
- Flannery O'Connor : a life
- Fly girl : a memoir
- Francis Hodgson Burnett
- French connections : Hemingway and Fitzgerald abroad
- Friends in the world : the education of a writer : a memoir
- From our house : a memoir
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Garrison Keillor : the man on the radio in the red shoes
- Gathering a life : a journal of recovery
- Genesis angels : the saga of Lew Welch and the beat generation
- Geniuses together : American writers in Paris in the 1920s
- Gentleman in a dustcoat : a biography of John Crowe Ransom
- George, being George : George Plimpton's life as told, admired, deplored, and envied by 200 friends, relatives, lovers, acquaintances, rivals, and a few unappreciative observers
- Gertrude Stein
- Gertrude Stein has arrived : the homecoming of a literary legend
- Gertrude and Alice
- Going to see the elephant : pieces of a writing life
- Gonzo : the life and work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- Good dog. Stay
- Good dog. Stay
- Goodbye darkness : a memoir of the Pacific War
- Goodbye, darkness : a memoir of the Pacific War
- Gore Vidal : a biography
- Gore Vidal : the United States of amnesia
- Goyen : autobiographical essays, notebooks, evocations, interviews
- Grace Paley's life stories : a literary biography
- Grandfather stories
- Granville Hicks : the intellectual in mass society
- Green hills of Africa
- Green hills of Africa
- Green hills of Africa.
- Gusty's child
- Gut feelings : a writer's truths and minute inventions
- H. Beam Piper : a biography
- H.L. Mencken : a documentary volume
- Hallelujah! the welcome table : a lifetime of memories with recipes
- Hand to mouth : a chronicle of early failure
- Harold and me : my life, love, and hard times with Harold Robbins
- Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison! : it seemed like a good idea at the time
- Hawai`i one summer
- Heathen days, 1890-1936
- Hellman and Hammett : the legendary passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett
- Helping me help myself : one skeptic, ten self-help Gurus, and a year on the brink of the comfort zone
- Hemingway
- Hemingway : the 1930s
- Hemingway : the final years
- Hemingway at eighteen : the pivotal year that launched an American legend
- Hemingway at war : Ernest Hemingway's adventures as a World War II correspondent
- Hemingway in 90 minutes
- Hemingway in Africa : the last safari
- Hemingway in Cuba
- Hemingway in Italy
- Hemingway in Toronto : a post-modern tribute
- Hemingway in love : his own story : a memoir
- Hemingway on the China front : his WWII spy mission with Martha Gellhorn
- Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald : the rise and fall of a literary friendship
- Hemingway's Havana : a reflection of the writer's life in Cuba
- Hemingway's boat : everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961
- Hemingway's boat : everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961
- Hemingway's widow : the life and legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway
- Hemingway, life and works
- Hemingway, the Paris years
- Henry James : man and author
- Henry James : the imagination of genius : a biography
- Henry James : the mature master
- Henry James, American writer, 1843-1916
- Henry James, a literary life
- Henry Miller
- Henry Miller : a life
- Henry Miller, happy rock
- Henry Miller, the Paris years
- Here comes, there goes, you know who
- Here if you need me : a true story
- Here if you need me : a true story
- Here if you need me : a true story
- Herman Melville
- Hiding man : a biography of Donald Barthelme
- Hispanic writers : a selection of sketches from Contemporary authors
- Hole in my life
- Homegrown Democrat : a few plain thoughts from the heart of America
- Hoop roots : [basketball, race, and love]
- House lessons : renovating a life
- House of prayer no. 2 : a writer's journey home
- House on the river : a summer journey
- How I grew
- How I wrote Jubilee and other essays on life and literature
- How did I get here? : making peace with the road not taken, a memoir
- How do we know when it's God? : a spiritual memoir
- How precious was that while : an autobiography
- Howard Fast : life and literature in the left lane
- Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing
- Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing
- Huo xia qu de li you : Reasons to stay alive
- I and eye : pictures of my generation
- I can give you anything but love
- I can hear the cowbells ring
- I got mine : confessions of a midlist writer
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I love a broad margin to my life
- I love you, Miss Huddleston, and other inappropriate longings of my Indiana childhood
- I tell you now : autobiographical essays by native American writers
- I wonder as I wander; : an autobiographical journey
- I. Asimov : a memoir
- Idella : Marjorie Rawlings' "perfect maid"
- Imagining Paris : exile, writing, and American identity
- Improbable fiction : the life of Mary Roberts Rinehart
- In Capra's shadow : the life and career of screenwriter Robert Riskin
- In bed with Gore Vidal : hustlers, Hollywood, and the private world of an American master
- In defense of Marion : the love of Marion Bloom & H.L. Mencken
- In extremis : the life of Laura Riding
- In search of J.D. Salinger
- In search of Willie Morris : the mercurial life of a legendary writer and editor
- In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose
- In the body of the world : [a memoir]
- In the body of the world : a memoir
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- In the shadow of memory
- In the unlikely event of a water landing : a geography of grief
- Influencing Hemingway : people and places that shaped his life and work
- Inside a pearl : my years in Paris
- Intellectual memoirs : New York, 1936-1938
- Intimate lies : F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham : her son's story
- Invented lives : F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
- Inventing paradise : the Greek journey, 1937-47
- Iris Chang : the rape of Nanking
- Irwin Shaw : a biography
- Isaac Asimov : a life of the grand master of science fiction
- Isaac Asimov, the foundations of science fiction
- It calls you back : an odyssey through love, addiction, revolutions, and healing
- It's all a kind of magic : the young Ken Kesey
- It's all material
- It's been a good life
- It's hard not to hate you
- J. D. Salinger : a life
- J. D. Salinger : a life
- J. P. Marquand, Esquire, : a portrait in the form of a novel
- J.D. Salinger
- J.D. Salinger : a life
- J.D. Salinger : the escape artist
- Jack Kerouac
- Jack Kerouac : a biography
- Jack Kerouac : king of the beats
- Jack Kerouac, king of the Beats : a portrait
- Jack London : a life
- Jack London : a writer's fight for a better America
- Jack London : an American life
- Jack London : the man, the writer, the rebel
- Jack London and his daughters
- Jack London, adventures, ideas, and fiction
- Jack London--an American radical?
- Jack and Norman : a state-raised convict and the legacy of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song
- Jack's book : an oral biography of Jack Kerouac
- Jacks or better : a narrative
- James A. Michener, a biography
- James Agee : a life
- James Baldwin : artist on fire : a portrait
- James Baldwin : living in fire
- James Baldwin : the legacy
- James Dickey : the world as a lie
- James Jones : a friendship
- James Thurber
- James Tiptree, Jr. : the double life of Alice B. Sheldon
- Jean Stafford
- Jean Stafford : a biography
- Jean Stafford : the savage heart
- Joey : a loving portrait of Alfred Perles together with some bizarre episodes relating to the opposite sex
- John Dickson Carr : the man who explained miracles
- John Steinbeck
- Jonathan Franzen : the comedy of rage
- Josephine Herbst
- Journal of the fictive life
- Journey around my room : the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic
- Julian Hawthorne : the life of a prodigal son
- Just as I thought
- Kate Douglas Wiggin as her sister knew her,
- Katharine and E.B. White : an affectionate memoir
- Katherine Anne Porter : a life
- Katherine Anne Porter : the life of an artist
- Katherine Anne Porter and Mexico : the illusion of Eden
- Kay Boyle, artist and activist
- Kay Thompson : from Funny face to Eloise
- Keepers : a memoir
- Keeping literary company : working with writers since the sixties
- Kerouac : the definitive biography
- Kerouac and friends : a beat generation album
- Kerouac at the "Wild Boar" & other skirmishes
- Kerouac's town
- Kerouac; : a biography
- Kinfolks : falling off the family tree : the search for my Melungeon ancestors
- Kingdom of fear : loathsome secrets of a star-crossed child in the final days of the American century
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Kurt Vonnegut : unstuck in time
- Last house : reflections, dreams, and observations 1943-1991
- Last rites : the death of William Saroyan
- Late returns : a memoir of Ted Berrigan
- Leaving home : a Hollywood blacklisted writer's years abroad
- Left on Tenth : a second chance at life : a memoir
- Leon Uris : life of a best seller
- Les heures furieuses : sur les traces du manuscrit perdu de Harper Lee
- Less than a treason : Hemingway in Paris
- Letter to my daughter
- Letter to my daughter
- Libertarians on the prairie : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the making of the Little House books
- Life among the savages
- Life and letters of Stuart P. Sherman
- Listening below the noise : a meditation on the practice of silence
- Listening for Madeleine : a portrait of Madeleine L'Engle in many voices
- Little house in the Ozarks : the rediscovered writings
- Little matches : a memoir of grief and light
- Logical family : a memoir
- Logical family : a memoir
- Logical family : a memoir
- Lonelyhearts : the screwball world of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
- Looking back : a book of memories
- Lord of a visible world : an autobiography in letters
- Losing everything : a memoir
- Loss of Eden : a biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Lost friendships : a memoir of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and others
- Lost in place : growing up absurd in suburbia
- Lost in the meritocracy : the undereducation of an overachiever
- Lost names; : scenes from a Korean boyhood
- Lost property : memoirs and confessions of a bad boy
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake
- Louis Auchincloss : a writer's life
- Louis Bromfield at Malabar : writings on farming and country life
- Love & terror on the howling plains of nowhere : a memoir
- Love in America : 1919-1922
- Love, laughter, and tears : my Hollywood story
- Lovesong : becoming a Jew
- Loving Mailer