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Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
An intimate memoir of Anne Rice's Catholic girlhood, her unmaking as a devout believer, and her return to the Church--what she calls a decision of the heart. Moving from her New Orleans childhood in the 1940s and '50s, with all its religious devotions, through how she slowly lost her belief in God, the book recounts Anne's years in radical Berkeley, where she wrote Interview with the Vampire (a lament for her lost faith) and where she came to admire...
83) The lineup: the world's greatest crime writers tell the inside story of their greatest detectives
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 406 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Shares the stories behind the creations of many of the mystery genre's most popular characters, revealing the inspirations for such examples as Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch and Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explore the rollercoaster life of America's most controversial and bestselling author of the 20th century. Propelled by his tremendous ego and contrarian spirit, Mailer's ceaseless visibility in the public eye lasted six decades, during which he had six tumultuous marriages, nine beloved children, 11 bestsellers, three arrests, and two Pulitzer Prizes. Prophet, hedonist, violent criminal, literary outlaw, and social provocateur, Mailer's ideas about...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
21 audio discs (26.5 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In The last love song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New York Times Notable book) and Just one catch, delves deep into the life of distinguished American author and journalist Joan Didion in this, the first printed biography published about her life. Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City while...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Andrew Offutt's writing career began as a strategy to pay for his son's orthodontic needs and peaked during the 1970s when the commercial popularity of the erotic novel reached its height. After his death, his son inherited 400 novels of pornography written by his father. As Chris began to examine his father's manuscripts and memorabilia, he realized he finally had an opportunity to gain insight into the difficult, mercurial, sometimes cruel man he'd...
89) South and West
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 audio discs (2 hr., 51 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles--and here is one such draft that traces a road trip she took with her husband, John Gregory...
92) A Moveable Feast
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9789355462589,Pharos Books,A Moveable Feast,Ernest Hemingway
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut"--
In the late 1940s. Kurt Vonnegut is home after surviving the firebombing of Dresden. He has ambitions to be a novelist but dares to share them only with his new wife. Kurt struggles to complete college and write while working nights at a newspaper. Soon there's a child on the way. Anxious about supporting his family, Kurt quits school and...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
369 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted something, "to jump at de sun", because even though you might not land quite that high, at least you'd get off the ground. So Zora jumped from place to place, from the porch of the general store where she listened to folktales, to Howard University, to Harlem. And everywhere she jumped, she shined sunlight on the tales most people hadn't been...
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