homes and haunts

Poet Maya Angelou chronicles her early life, focusing on her childhood in 1930s rural Arkansas, including her rape at the age of five, her subsequent years of muteness, and the strength she gained from her grandmother and Mrs. Bertha Flowers, a respected African-American woman in her town.

"Traces the birth of modern America as reflected by the writings of Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Charles Warrant Stoddard and Ina Coolbrith, placing their achievements and personal lives against a backdrop of the post-Gold Rush era in California"--Provided by OCLC.

The author relates the story of his relationship with his uncle Shanti Behari Seth, who was sent to Germany as a young man in the 1930s to study medicine and dentistry, and Shanti's wife, Helga Gerda Caro, a Jewish German.

Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi. He endured a difficult childhood in the Jim Crow South.

A collection of essays that explores the humor of the Old Southwest, drawing on tales, almanac entries, turf reports, historical sketches, and profiles of local characters that reflect the humor of the region from 1830 to 1860.

With photography and illustrations, At Home with Jane Austen explores Austen's world, her physical surroundings, and the journeys the popular author took during her lifetime.

Lin Arison blends memoir, travelogue, art history, and biography in an account of her journey throughout France with her teenage granddaughter in the summer of 2000, during which they rediscovered the impressionists, and made connections between the close-knit group of artists and their own lives. Includes photographs by Neil Folberg.

Recreates the daily lives of Carson McCullers, W.H. Auden, Benjamin Briteen, Jane and Paul Bowles, and Gypsy Rose Lee during the year they spent living together in 1940s Brooklyn.