correspondence

Written over a sixty-year period, the letters in this collection include the years Vonnegut experienced as a struggling writer, intimate rememberances penned to school classmates, fellow veterans, friends and family, and commiseration and encouragement to contemporaries such as Godwin and Malamud. His personal correspondence was always alive with the unique point of view that made him the heir to Mark Twain and the letters comprise the autobiography that Kurt Vonnegut never wrote.

More than 300 pieces of correspondence, taken from 7,000 that were gathered around the world, provide insight into Pulitzer Prize winning author Thornton Wilder's life and the people he connected with, including his family, Walt Disney, FDR, Elizabeth Taylor, Ernest Hemingway, Leonard Bernstein and more. The letters are presented chronologically and follow a brief biographical introduction to Mr. Wilder.

"A first publication of the ... writer's personal correspondences includes ... teenage reports of her 1880s Red Cloud life, letters written during her early journalism years and the 1940s exchanges penned in observation of World War II and her own struggles with aging"-- Publishers description.

Contains ten letters written by poet Rainer Maria Rilke between 1903 and 1908 to Franz Xaver Kappus, a student at a Vienna military academy who asked Rilke for criticism and advice about his own poetic efforts.

Life of Louisa May Alcott is revealed through with more than 260 annotated letters and over fifty photographs, many published for the first time.

Contains ten letters written by poet Rainer Maria Rilke between 1903 and 1908 to Franz Xaver Kappus, a student at a Vienna military academy who asked Rilke for criticism and advice about his own poetic efforts.

Explains the basic political and social beliefs of conservatives, discussing what it is like to be conservative in today's liberal political world.

Collection of letters from 1926 to 1981 from the philosopher and author Ayn Rand to a variety of famed authors, journalists, and politicians revealing key moments in her life while offering a look into her thoughts on writing, America, the Soviet Union, politics, and most of all, objectivism, a school of thought she created out of her life's experiences.