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This biography of the legendary author focuses on the obstacles of class and gender she faced on the road to becoming a successful modern working woman, despite depicting herself as an ordinary Edwardian housewife. Illustrations.
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Wrapped in rainbows : the life of Zora Neale Hurston
by Valerie Boyd
Traces previously unexplored aspects of the career of the influential African-American writer, citing the historical backdrop of her life and work while considering her relationships with and influences on top literary, intellectual, and artistic figures. 60,000 first printing.
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Memorial days
by Geraldine Brooks
Having no time to grieve when her husband suddenly died, the author after three years flew to a remote Australian island and stayed in a shack on a pristine coast, going days without seeing another person, and pondered the ways cultures grieve and what rituals might help her rebuild her life.
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Shakespeare : the world as stage
by Bill Bryson
A portrait of the bard is presented in the style of a travelogue based on interviews with actors, the curator of Shakespeare's Birthplace, and academics, in an account that also shares the author's whimsical recollections of his own adventures in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Dorothy Parker in Hollywood
by Gail Crowther
"The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as never before in this biography of Dorothy Parker--from leaving New York City to work on numerous classic screenplays such as the 1937 'A Star Is Born' to the devastation of alcoholism, a miscarriage, and her husband's suicide. Parker's involvement with anti-fascist and anti-racist groups, which led to her ultimate blacklisting, and her early work in the civil rights movement that inspired her to leave her entire estate to the NAACP are also explored as never before"
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Odyssey of a wandering mind : the strange tale of Sara Mayfield, author
by Jennifer Horne
Horne spotlights an Alabama author often regarded as a supporting player to her more famous friends, Sara Haardt Mencken, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and Tallulah Bankhead. Actually, Sara Mayfield was by turns a novelist, playwright, journalist, and inventor. But she was first and foremost a survivor who led a remarkable life throughout a near century of cultural upheaval.
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Knife : meditations after an attempted murder
by Salman Rushdie
The internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner speaks out for the first time about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, when an attempt was made on his life, in this deeply personal meditation on violence, art, loss, love and finding the strength to stand up again.
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Mad at the world : a life of John Steinbeck
by William Souder
The Pulitzer Prize-finalist author of Under a Wild Sky explores how John Steinbeck's complicated persona and firsthand struggles through the depths of the Great Depression gave him deeply empathic perspectives that shaped his politics and his evocative characters and themes. Illustrations.
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The mystery of Charles Dickens
by A. N. Wilson
"A lively and insightful biographical celebration of the imaginative genius of Charles Dickens, published in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his death"
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