american novelists

A young woman raised on a commune in the Adirondack Mountains recalls her feelings and observations as she came of age during the 1960s in a community that was deliberating destroying convention and creating a new, "pagan" lifestyle to replace it.

Presents an account of the life of twentieth-century American novelist Willa Cather as recalled by her close friend and traveling companion Edith Lewis.

Alexandra Styron, the youngest child of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Sophie's Choice," William Styron, discusses growing up with her father's talent and troubles.

An autobiography of American novelist Jeanne Darst, detailing her childhood, her early years of writing and drinking, and her later years of finding herself.

The author shares the many lessons she has learned throughout her lifetime because of her association and appreciation of animals.

A series of interviews with noted author William S. Burroughs, where he tells of his drug addiction and cure, as well as his views on youth, sex, drugs, writing, politics, revolution, and other controversial topics.

A biography of twentieth-century American author Bernard Malamud, discussing his poverty-stricken childhood, his mother's probably suicide, his brother's schizophrenia, his working methods, and his use of his life experiences in his writing.

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 best-selling romance novelist Danielle Steel, drawing parallels between her life and those of the characters who inhabit her fictional worlds.