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Raymond Carver : A Writer’s Life

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by Carol Sklenicka
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Book, 1st Scribner hardcover ed, Scribner, 2009
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Carver, Raymond · Authors, American · 20th century · Biography · Sklenicka, Carol, 1948-
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Stitches : A Memoir –

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David Small
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Book, W.W. Norton & Co, 2009
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The prize-winning children?s author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir. Recalling Running with Scissors with its ability to evoke the trauma of a childhood lost, Stitches will transform adolescent and adult readers alike with its deeply liberating vision. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Small, David, · 1945- · Comic books, strips, etc · Authors, American · 20th century · Biography · Comic books, strips, etc · Artists · United States · Comic books, strips, etc · Children’s stories · Illustrations · Authorship · Small, David, 1945-
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Ardent Spirits : Leaving Home, Coming Back

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Reynolds Price
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Book, 1st Scribner hardcover ed, Scribner, 2009
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Price, Reynolds, · 1933- · University of Oxford · Students · Biography · Duke University · Faculty · Authors, American · 20th century · English teachers · United States · Price, Reynolds, 1933-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3566.R54 Z46 2009 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3566.R54 Z46 2009	AVAILABLE

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A Whole New Life : An Illness And A Healing

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Reynolds Price
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Book, 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed, Scribner, 2003
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Price, Reynolds, · 1933- · Health · Spine · Cancer · Patients · United States · Biography · Authors, American · 20th century · Price, Reynolds, 1933-
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(UPPER LEVEL) RC280.S72 P75 2003 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	RC280.S72 P75 2003	AVAILABLE

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Harper Lee : A Twentieth-century Life

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by Kerry Madden
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Book, Viking, 2009
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Kerry Madden conducted extensive research for this Up Close biography, which reveals Lee to be a down-to-earth Southern woman who enjoys baseball games and playing golf?and whose one and only published book happened to win the Pulitzer Prize. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Lee, Harper · Juvenile literature · Authors, American · 20th century · Biography · Juvenile literature · Madden, Kerry
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CHILD LIT (LOWER) 920 L478m 2009 AVAILABLE

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George, Being George : George Plimpton’s Life As Told, Admired, Deplored, And Envied By 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals, And A Few Unappreciative Observers

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edited by Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr
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Book, 1st ed, Random House, 2008
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Norman Mailer said that George Plimpton was the best-loved man in New York. This book is the party that was George?s life?and it?s a big one?attended by scores of people, including Peter Matthiessen, Robert Silvers, Jean Stein, William Styron, Maggie Paley, Gay Talese, Calvin Trillin, and Gore Vidal, as well as lesser-known intimates and acquaintances, each with candid and compelling stories to tell about George Plimpton and childhood rebellion, adult indiscretions, literary tastes, ego trips, loyalties and jealousies, riches and drugs, and embracing life no matter the consequences. In George, Being George people feel free to say what guests say at parties when the subject of the conversation isn?t around anymore. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Plimpton, George · Authors, American · 20th century · Biography · Editors · United States · Journalists · Aldrich, Nelson W
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BROWSING (MAIN) PS3566.L5 Z68 2008 AVAILABLE

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BROWSING (MAIN)	PS3566.L5 Z68 2008	AVAILABLE

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Hiding Man : A Biography Of Donald Barthelme

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Tracy Daugherty
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Book, 1st ed, St. Martin’s Press, 2009
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In the 1960s Donald Barthelme came to prominence as the leader of the Postmodern movement.He was a fixture at the New Yorker, publishing more than 100 short stories, includingsuch masterpieces as”Me and Miss Mandible,” the tale of a thirty-five-year-old sent to elementary school by clerical error, and “A Shower of Gold,”in which a sculptor agrees to appear on the existentialist game show Who Am I? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Barthelme, Donald · Authors, American · 20th century · Biography · Postmodernism (Literature) · United States · Daugherty, Tracy
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3552.A76 Z66 2009 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3552.A76 Z66 2009	AVAILABLE

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An Everglades Providence : Marjory Stoneman Douglas And The American Environmental Century

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Jack E. Davis
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Book, University of Georgia Press, 2009
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No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country’s most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. Reconstructing this larger picture, Davis recounts the shifts in Douglas’s own life and her instrumental role in four important developments that contributed to Everglades protection: the making of a positive wetland image, the creation of a national park, the expanding influence of ecological science, and the rise of the modern environmental movement. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Douglas, Marjory Stoneman · Conservationists · Florida · Biography · Feminists · United States · Authors, American · 20th century · Nature conservation · Everglades · History · Environmental degradation · Wetland conservation · Environmental policy · Davis, Jack E., 1956-
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BROWSING (MAIN) QH31.D645 D38 2009 AVAILABLE

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BROWSING (MAIN)	QH31.D645 D38 2009	AVAILABLE

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I Love You, Miss Huddleston, And Other Inappropriate Longings Of My Indiana Childhood

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Philip Gulley
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Book, 1st ed, HarperOne, 2009
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In I Love You, Miss Huddleston we are transported to 1970’s Danville, Indiana, the everyone-knows-your-business town where Gulley still lives today, to witness the uproarious story of Gulley’s young life, including his infatuation with his comely sixth-grade teacher, his dalliance with sin?eating meat on Friday and inappropriate activities with a mannequin named Ginger?and his checkered start with organized religion. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Gulley, Philip · Childhood and youth · Homes and haunts · Indiana · Authors, American · 20th century · Biography · Danville (Ind.) · Social life and customs · Gulley, Philip
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BROWSING (MAIN) PS3557.U449 Z46 2009 AVAILABLE

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BROWSING (MAIN)	PS3557.U449 Z46 2009	AVAILABLE

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Mary Austin And The American West

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Susan Goodman, Carl Dawson
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Book, University of California Press, 2008
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Mary Austin (1868-1934)–eccentric, independent, and unstoppable–was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. By focusing on one extraordinary woman’s life, Mary Austin and the American West tells the larger story of the emerging importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Austin, Mary Hunter, · 1868-1934 · Authors, American · 20th century · Biography · Women and literature · West (U.S.) · History · Western stories · History and criticism · In literature · Goodman, Susan, 1951- · Dawson, Carl
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3501.U8 Z596 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3501.U8 Z596 2008	AVAILABLE

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Flannery : A Life Of Flannery O’Connor

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Brad Gooch
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Book, 1st ed, Little, Brown, 2009
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The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O’Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Hester was famously known as “A” in O’Connor’s collected letters, The Habit of Being, and a large cache of correspondence to her from O’Connor was made available to scholars, including Brad Gooch, in 2006. PRAISE FOR FLANNERY “Flannery O’Connor, one of the best American writers of short fiction, has found her ideal biographer in Brad Gooch. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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O’Connor, Flannery · Authors, American · 20th century · Biography · Milledgeville (Ga.) · Gooch, Brad, 1952-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3565.C57 Z6795 2009 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3565.C57 Z6795 2009	AVAILABLE

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Ashley Bryan : Words To My Life’s Song

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by Ashley Bryan
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Book, 1st ed, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009
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Ashley’s autobiography is full of art, photographs, and the poignant never-say-never tale of his rich life, a life that has always included drawing and painting. Even as a talented, visionary art student who was accepted and then turned away from college upon arrival, the school telling Ashley that to give a scholarship to an African American student would be a waste, he painted — continuing to create art when he could have been discouraged, continuing to polish his talents when his spirit should have been beaten. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Bryan, Ashley · Juvenile literature · Authors, American · 20th century · Biography · Juvenile literature · African American authors · Children’s stories · Authorship · African American illustrators · African American artists · Bryan, Ashley
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CHILD LIT (LOWER) 818.54 B915w AVAILABLE

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Talking Animals And Others : The Life And Work Of Walter R. Brooks, Creator Of Freddy The Pig

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Michael Cart
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Book, 1st ed, Overlook Press, 2009
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Author and librarian Michael Cart (himself a lifelong fan of Freddy the Pig of Bean Farm) gracefully combines archival research, firsthand accounts from Brooks’s personal files, and interviews with his second wife to present the first complete biography of the man behind the pig. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Brooks, Walter R., · 1886-1958 · 1886-1958. · Freddy the pig series · Authors, American · 20th century · Biography · Children’s literature · Authorship · Freddy (Fictitious character : Brooks) · Cart, Michael
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3503.R733 Z53 2009 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3503.R733 Z53 2009	AVAILABLE

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Cheever : A Life

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by Blake Bailey
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Book, 1st ed, Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
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From the acclaimed author of A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates comes the unforgettable life of John Cheever (1912?1982), a man who spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. We see a man who concealed his anxieties behind the mask of a genial Westchester squire?a paterfamilias in Brooks Brothers clothes whose world was peopled by legendary writers and beautiful women (Malcolm Cowley, Saul Bellow, William Maxwell, Hope Lange, and John Updike, among them); (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Cheever, John · Authors, American · 20th century · Biography · Bailey, Blake
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3505.H6428 Z53 2009 AVAILABLE

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The Tulip And The Pope

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Deborah Larsen
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Book, Vintage Books, 2006
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The story of novelist and poet Deborah Larsen’s young womanhood, The Tulip and the Pope is both an exquisitely crafted spiritual memoir and a beautifully nuanced view of life in the convent. In the same artful prose that distinguished her novel The White, Larsen’s memoir lets us into the hushed life of the convent. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Larsen, Deborah · Authors, American · 20th century · Biography · Catholics · United States · Ex-nuns · Larsen, Deborah
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3562.A729 Z476 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3562.A729 Z476 2005	AVAILABLE

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