american novelists

Biography of nineteenth century author Herman Melville, drawing upon newly discovered family letters to present information on his life from childhood, to his sojourns at sea, to his inconsistent career as a writer.

A memoir in which the author, a writer of crime fiction, tells of his experiences after teaming up with a homicide detective in 1994 to finally unravel the mystery of his mother's murder in a Los Angeles suburb thirty-six years earlier.

Introduces young readers to the life of Zora Neale Hurston.

Provides a collection of letters from Margaret Mitchell, the woman who created Scarlett from the film "Gone with the Wind.".

"Traces the author's healing journey after a traumatizing sexual assault at infamous St. Paul's boarding school, describing how she helped police uncover proof of the school's institutionalized mandate of silence"--OCLC.

"For as long as Augusten Burroughs could remember, he knew things he shouldn't have known. He manifested things that shouldn't have come to pass. And he told exactly no one about this, save one person: his mother. His mother reassured him that it was all perfectly normal, that he was descended from a long line of witches, going back to the days of the early American colonies. And that this family tree was filled with witches. It was a bond that he and his mother shared - until the day she left him in the care of her psychiatrist to be raised in his family (but that's a whole other story). After that, Augusten was on his own"--Jacket flap.

Augusten Burroughs describes his experiences working in advertising in Manhattan and chronicles his battle with alcoholism.

A bestselling author is held captive in a wheelchair, made drug-dependent, and locked in his room by an angry nurse who demands he bring her favorite character back to life.

The author chronicles his life from age twelve to sixteen, living in the bizarre home of his mother's psychiatrist, where he was sexually abused by the doctor's thirty-three-year-old adopted son.