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Ayn Rand And The World She Made

Love As Always, Kurt : Vonnegut As I Knew Him

  • Love As Always, Kurt : Vonnegut As I Knew Him
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    Loree Rackstraw
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    Book, Da Capo Press, 2009
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    A loving, intimate memoir from a lifelong friend of Kurt Vonnegut, including photos and never-before-published correspondence When Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Rackstraw distills four decades of memories and Vonnegut?s letters to her into an affectionate memoir that crackles with the creative energy of one of America?s most beloved writers. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3572.O5 Z798 2009  AVAILABLE

On The Divide : The Many Lives Of Willa Cather

  • On The Divide : The Many Lives Of Willa Cather
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    David Porter
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    Book, University of Nebraska Press, 2008
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    Extending from Cather?s early stories to her final novel, Porter?s book documents the degree to which Cather?s understanding of her own different and often conflicting sides, and of her penchant for playing diverse roles, enabled her as a novelist to create characters so torn, so complex, and so profoundly human. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3505.A87 Z77 2008  AVAILABLE

Coffee With Hemingway

Haunted Heart : The Life And Times Of Stephen King

  • Haunted Heart : The Life And Times Of Stephen King
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    Lisa Rogak
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    Book, 1st ed, Thomas Dunne Books, 2009
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    One of the most prolific and popular authors in the world today, Stephen King has become part of pop culture history. Despite his dark and disturbing work, Stephen King has become revered by critics and his countless fans as an all-American voice more akin to Mark Twain than H. Stephen King on Stephen King: ?I?m afraid of everything.? ?I am always interested in this idea that a lot of fiction writers write for their fathers because their fathers are gone.? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3561.I483 Z85 2009  AVAILABLE

Truman Capote, Enfant Terrible

  • Truman Capote, Enfant Terrible
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    Robert Emmet Long
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    Book, Continuum, 2008
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    Written like a New Yorker profile, this book, by the author of the definitive volume on the films of Merchant Ivory, who also has had access to Capote’s unpublished papers, studies Truman Capote in a new way: through his early years and works. Truman Capote, Enfant Terrible, is a grand overview of a complex and fascinating author: one who remained a child in appearance and behaviour; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3505.A59 Z685 2008  AVAILABLE

Books : A Memoir

Critical Companion To Ernest Hemingway : A Literary Reference To His Life And Work

Bernard Malamud : A Writer’s Life

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William Faulkner

  • William Faulkner
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    Carolyn Porter
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    Book, Oxford University Press, 2007
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    In this newest volume in Oxford’s Lives and Legacies series, Carolyn Porter, a leading authority on William Faulkner, offers an insightful account of Faulkner’s life and work, with special focus on the breathtaking twelve-year period when he wrote some of the finest novels in American literature. Porter illuminates the importance of Faulkner’s legacy not only for American literature, but also for world literature, and reveals how Faulkner lives on so powerfully, both in the works of his literary heirs and in the lives of readers today. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3511.A86 Z946387 2007  AVAILABLE

Ralph Ellison : A Biography

  • Ralph Ellison : A Biography
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    Arnold Rampersad
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    Book, 1st ed, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007
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    The definitive biography of one of the most important American writers and cultural intellectuals of the twentieth century?Ralph Ellison, author of the masterpiece Invisible Man. The second half of his long life brought both widespread critical acclaim and bitter disputes with many opponents, including black cultural nationalists outraged by what they saw as his elitism and misguided pride in his American citizenship. a man both admired and reviled, whose life and art were shaped mainly by his unyielding desire to produce magnificent art and by his resilient faith in the moral and cultural strength of America. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3555.L625 Z8725 2007  AVAILABLE

Writing In An Age Of Silence

Thomas Wolfe : An Illustrated Biography

Yeh Yeh’s House : A Memoir