american novelists

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american novelists

Like shaking hands with God

a conversation about writing
1999
Writers Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer discuss humanity, writing, salvation, art, and the challenge of living.

Eastern sun, winter moon

an autobiographical odyssey
1993
Author chronicles his boyhood in the United States and the Philippines during World War II.

Chapters

my growth as a writer
1982
The author recounts the experiences from her childhood, adolescence, and marriage which have been incorporated into her fictional stories and poems.

The man behind the Da Vinci code

the unauthorized biography of Dan Brown
2005
Chronicles the life of author Dan Brown, discussing his childhood, schooling, efforts to avoid the public eye, acclaimed novels, impact on the literary world, and other related topics.

Self-consciousness

memoirs
1990
Author John Updike describes his life until the age of fifty-five.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

2002
A biography of author F. Scott Fitzgerald that features more than one hundred photos and discusses such topics as his marriage to Zelda, his screenwriting years, and his later financial straits.

Girls of tender age

a memoir
2006
Mary-Ann Tirone Smith chronicles her French-Italian family's struggle to survive in a housing project in Hartford, Connecticut, in the years following World War II.

Hawthorne

a life
2003
Examines the life and career of American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, discussing his childhood and schooling, his marriage and friendships, his political loyalties, the conflicts in his personality, and the influences on his work.

Gentleman junkie

the life and legacy of William S. Burroughs
1998

Margaret Mitchell

1990
A combined biographical and critical study of Margaret Mitchell and her writing.

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