novelists, american

Jennifer Boylan discusses how she spent the first forty years of life knowing she was a woman trapped in a man's body and explores how her physical, emotional, and spiritual life was changed after a sex-change operation.

A biography of the influential writer David Foster Wallace, describing his anguished and often triumphant battle to succeed as a novelist, his battle with depression and addiction, and his untimely death by suicide in 2008.

A biography of Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist, discussing his childhood in Indiana, his family, and his career.

Contains over thirty interviews conducted with American author Joseph Heller which appeared in a wide range of publications from 1962 to 1991.

Presents the life of Joan Didion, American author, journalist, and screenwriter from her early days at "Vogue" to the death of her husband and daughter.

A memoir which focuses on the author's romantic and literary relationship with John Gardner, author of Grendel and October Light.

Sketches of the author's early life in Paris in the twenties provide nostalgic reminiscences of his first marriage and the discipline of developing his own literary craft.

Presents short biographies of nine influential African American novelists, including Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Alex Haley, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Harriet Adams Wilson, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright and Ernest Gaines.