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"Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself ... Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side...
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"1910: Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister in London and eager to prove himself, independent of his renowned detective father's influence. And the new case before him will be the test. When his client, arrogant biographer Russell Graves, is found guilty of murdering his wife, Daniel is dispatched by his superior to find the real killer before Graves faces the hangman's noose--in only twenty-one days. Could the violent death have...
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Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991, aged 85. William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart is his disjointed autobiography, a massive tome chronicling "my personal rollercoaster"--or rather, "not so much a rollercoaster", but a yo-yo, "a jerking spinning toy in the hands of a maladroit child." From his early childhood in Montevideo, son of an English corned beef executive and his Uraguayan secretary,...
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Tor
Pub. Date
c1996
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English
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A woman writer moves into a house she inherited from a poet in the hills of Arizona. The man died in mysterious circumstances and Maggie Black wants to find out why. So begins a terrifying introduction to the Indian spirits which roam the hills and feed on people's creative juices.
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Cece Caruso mystery volume 1
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Morrow
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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It started with a case of writers block. Pretty, vivacious Cece Caruso turned to a life of crime after her divorce. But shes neither breaking and entering nor running cons. Instead, shes writing biographies of famous crime novelists, and now its Erle Stanley Gardners turn under Ceces magnifying glass. While the creator of Perry Mason had an exciting life, including his own share of courtroom dramatics...
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Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
c1984.
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English
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English novelist Wilfred Barclay, who has known fame, success, and fortune, is in crisis. He faces a drinking problem slipping over the borderline into alcoholism, a dead marriage, and the incurable itch of middle age lust. But the final, unbearable irritation is American Professor of English Literature Rick L. Tucker, who is implacable in his determinition to become The Barclay Man: authorized biographer, editor of the posthumous papers and the recognized...
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University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c1999.
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English
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In this much-awaited biography, Newell G. Bringhurst portrays the life and career of Fawn McKay Brodie, author of some of the most widely read biographies of the twentieth century.Brodie's best-known work, Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History, was the first scholarly treatment of Jefferson's relationship with his slave Sally Hemings, with whom he allegedly fathered children. Recent publication of DNA studies substantiating Brodie's claim have drawn...
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Penguin
Pub. Date
1996.
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English
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On the surface Judith Gill, the protagonist, is a nobody, a middle-class housewife with two children living in a small town. But her job as a biographer has taught her it is the little things in life that count, and from that point of view her story is alive with action. By the author of The Stone Diaries, for which she won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Cece Caruso mystery volume 2
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Morrow
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Having idolized Nancy Drew throughout her childhood, mystery writer biographer Cece Caruso meets a collector of early edition Nancy Drew mysteries and attends a fan convention, but when a patron is discovered dead, she must identify the killer to keep from becoming the next victim.
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Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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Evelyn Hugo, el icono de Hollywood que se ha recluido a su edad madura, decide al fin contar la verdad sobre su vida llena de glamour y de escándalos. Pero cuando elige para ello a Monique Grant, una periodista desconocida, nadie se sorprende más que la misma Monique. ¿Por qué ella? ¿Por qué ahora?
"Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses...
13) Cakes and ale
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Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
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English
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For Alroy Kear the task is sample: write the authorized biography of the eminently respectable Victorian novelist Edward Driffield and make it a bestseller. What he doesn't reckon on is the truth.
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Iris Greenfeder is a 36-year-old barely published New York writer and teacher whose long-term boyfriend, an artist, sees her schedule as strict and therefore will not spend the night, because he likes to get up and paint first thing every morning. When one of Iris's stories about her mother is picked up by a small literary journal with a well-connected editor, things start to happen for her. She becomes convinced that a summer out of the city, working...
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Tor
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Jumping at an offer to write the biography of a silent-film star, film critic Simon investigates the actor's disappearance, only to witness bizarre occurrences, from the unusual appearances of a menacing clown to unnatural outbreaks of laughter wherever he goes.
16) Genuine lies
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She is the last of the movie goddesses, and the greatest: a smoky-voiced sex symbol who clawed her way up the ladder to two Oscars and a Tony, four husbands and a legion of lovers. Her beauty is staggering, her power awesome. There is no secret, no lie, no scandal she doesn't know. Now, still in the spotlight after fifty years, Eve Benedict has decided to write her memoirs--no holds barred.
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Twenty-First Century
Pub. Date
c1999.
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English
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Almost all poetry anthologies for young people contain selections from Carl Sandburg. This biography traces the everyday life of this most interesting man who worked as a farmhand, a dishwasher, a house painter, and as a soldier, among other non-literary jobs. This may explain why he communicates so clearly with common, while still being adulated by the literary elite.
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the pandemic sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. Obsessed by what his devotion to his art reveals about cost, worth, and debt, she delves into Melville's impulsive purchase of a Massachusetts farmhouse, his fevered revision of Moby-Dick there, his intense friendship with neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne, and his troubled and troubling marriage to Elizabeth...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Our American Friend is a propulsive Cold War era spy thriller crossed with a fictional biography of a First Lady. Spanning from the 1970s to the present day, traveling from Moscow and Paris to Washington and New York, Anna Pitoniak's novel is a gripping page-turner about power and complicity and how sometimes, the fate of the world is in the hands of the people you'd never expect"--
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