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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Formats
Description
An account of the 1963 death of the author's father describes how her mother, three sisters, and she were financially dependent on her father's wages and how their loss and Catholic faith resonated the experiences of the nation.
Publisher
Winstar Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A candid and comprehensive biographical portrait of the novelist, essayist, journalist and activist, Norman Mailer. Compiled from over 20 hours of exclusive interviews with the writer, this profile includes rare archival footage, photographs and original manuscripts from the Mailer archives. Both fascinated by and at odds with his country, Norman Mailer personally explores the tensions that exist between reality and fiction in this unprecedented film....
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Explores the life and literary career of Harper Lee, the woman behind the creation of "To Kill a Mockingbird," describing her struggle to create her famed novel, and her contributions to her lifelong friend Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood."
Series
Griffith masterworks volume 2
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The avenging angel (1914): A young man yearns to escape his overbearing, one-eyed uncle. After the nephew murders the ogre, he and his lover are wracked by guilt and tormented by nightmares, ghosts, and demonic entities that drive them to even more horrifying extremes.
Edgar Allen (sic) Poe: a biographical short on one of history's most haunting writers.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
William Burroughs: the Beats éminence grise, "literary outlaw," culture hero to generations of poets, musicians, artists, and filmmakers who had their minds blown by his 1959 classic, banned-in-America "Naked Lunch." This film covers his life in a straightforward manner, but the portrait drawn is at odds with the character who wrote in outlandish graphic detail about then-forbidden sexuality in the 1950s and '60s. Heir to a family that lost its money,...
50) Updike
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America, who dedicated himself to the task of transcribing "middleness with all its grits, bumps and anonymities. Updike explores the stages of the writer's pilgrim's progress: his beloved home turf of Berks County, Pennsylvania; his escape...
Author
Language
English
Description
Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth volume, The Heart of a Woman, her turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters the razzle-dazzle of fabulous New York City. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, her love for writing blazes anew. Her compassion and commitment lead her...
54) Cross Creek
Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
p2002.
Language
English
Description
After ten years as a frustrated newspaper reporter and unsuccessful author of fiction, Marjorie Rawlings turns her back on financial security and takes up residence in the Florida Everglades. In this remote and untamed portion of central Florida, Rawlings is inspired to create a gallery of unforgettable characters and to produce critically-acclaimed best sellers.
Author
Series
Crosswicks journal volume 1
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
This journal shares fruitful reflections on life and career prompted by the author's visit to her personal place of retreat near her country home.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local "powhitetrash." At eight years old and back at her mothers side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her ageand has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Famed author Sheridan Whiteside possesses a tongue dipped in venom and a brain that can crack The New York Times crossword in four minutes. On a lecture tour in Ohio, he slips on the ice and is confined to the home of a bourgeois couple. He proceeds to plunge the household into chaos, ruling the place like a czar and meddling in everyone's love life.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
As words and stories are increasingly disseminated through digital means, the significance of the book as object, whether pristine collectible or battered relic, is growing as well. This book spotlights the personal libraries of thirteen favorite novelists who share their collections with readers. Photographs provide full views of the libraries and close-ups of individual volumes: first editions, worn textbooks, pristine hardcovers, and childhood...
60) Sweet liberty
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
College history professor Michael Burgess has his life and town turned upside down when a film company arrives to make a movie out of his best-selling book on the American Revolution.
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