Writers' Lives (nonfiction)

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On Writing for Children & Other People
On Writing for Children & Other People 4.20 avg rating — 40 ratings
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W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 4.13 avg rating — 559 ratings
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The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume 1: 1888-1912
The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume 1: 1888-1912 4.31 avg rating — 629 ratings
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Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography 4.66 avg rating — 4,221 ratings
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The Grand Tour: Letters and Photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922
The Grand Tour: Letters and Photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922 3.79 avg rating — 849 ratings
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Shakespeare: The World as Stage 3.82 avg rating — 48,086 ratings
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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country 4.12 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
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A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life 4.36 avg rating — 2,184 ratings
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The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America
The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America 4.49 avg rating — 215 ratings
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The Question of Things Happening: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume 2: 1912-1922
The Question of Things Happening: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume 2: 1912-1922 4.34 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life
Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life 3.92 avg rating — 2,564 ratings
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The Celestine Sibley Sampler: Writings & Photographs With Tributes to the Beloved Author and Journalist
The Celestine Sibley Sampler: Writings & Photographs With Tributes to the Beloved Author and Journalist 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Aké: The Years of Childhood
Aké: The Years of Childhood 3.86 avg rating — 1,978 ratings
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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe 4.29 avg rating — 3,223 ratings
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A Change of Perspective: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume 3: 1923-1928
A Change of Perspective: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume 3: 1923-1928 4.45 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock 3.84 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Piecework: Writings on Men & Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was
Piecework: Writings on Men & Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was 4.06 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804
Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 4.45 avg rating — 405 ratings
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Ìsarà: A Voyage Around Essay
Ìsarà: A Voyage Around Essay 3.61 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Collected Works of Jim Morrison
The Collected Works of Jim Morrison 4.27 avg rating — 526 ratings
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A Reflection of the Other Person: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume 4: 1929-1931
A Reflection of the Other Person: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume 4: 1929-1931 4.40 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx
The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx 3.83 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 4.49 avg rating — 227 ratings
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Sleeping with Cats: A Memoir
Sleeping with Cats: A Memoir 3.94 avg rating — 549 ratings
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The Sickle Side of the Moon: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1932-1935
The Sickle Side of the Moon: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1932-1935 4.43 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Vita & Virginia: A Double Life
Vita & Virginia: A Double Life 4.17 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Bylines: Writings from the American South, 1963-1997
Bylines: Writings from the American South, 1963-1997 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Leave the Letters Till We're Dead: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume 6: 1936-1941
Leave the Letters Till We're Dead: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume 6: 1936-1941 4.50 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Gabriela Mistral's Letters to Doris Dana
Gabriela Mistral's Letters to Doris Dana 4.12 avg rating — 100 ratings
129.
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life 4.11 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination 4.20 avg rating — 1,678 ratings
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The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War 4.31 avg rating — 380 ratings
132.
Meanwhile...: A Biography of Milton Caniff
Meanwhile...: A Biography of Milton Caniff 4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings
132.
Tolstoy: A Biography
Tolstoy: A Biography 4.02 avg rating — 422 ratings
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What Killed Jane Austen?
What Killed Jane Austen? 3.41 avg rating — 159 ratings
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The Price of my Soul
The Price of my Soul 4.25 avg rating — 402 ratings
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Ik heb geen talent voor ondergeschiktheid
Ik heb geen talent voor ondergeschiktheid 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel: A Biography
Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel: A Biography 4.12 avg rating — 1,343 ratings
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My Own Words
My Own Words 4.03 avg rating — 26,532 ratings
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Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education 4.10 avg rating — 546 ratings
141.
Chuck Berry : The Autobiography
Chuck Berry : The Autobiography 3.65 avg rating — 390 ratings
141.
Victor Hugo: A Biography
Victor Hugo: A Biography 3.96 avg rating — 218 ratings
141.
The Soul of a Woman
The Soul of a Woman 4.03 avg rating — 32,736 ratings
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The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner 4.07 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Death of a Rebel: A Biography of Phil Ochs
Death of a Rebel: A Biography of Phil Ochs 4.16 avg rating — 144 ratings
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D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage
D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage 4.09 avg rating — 76 ratings
145.
Live From Death Row
Live From Death Row 4.24 avg rating — 2,556 ratings
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 4.27 avg rating — 25,463 ratings
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Trotsky: A Graphic Biography
Trotsky: A Graphic Biography 3.57 avg rating — 486 ratings
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T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot 3.92 avg rating — 264 ratings
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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes 4.05 avg rating — 3,164 ratings
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American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar 3.99 avg rating — 390 ratings
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Good Morning, Mr Mandela
Good Morning, Mr Mandela 3.80 avg rating — 1,425 ratings
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath 4.57 avg rating — 4,352 ratings
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Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life
Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life 4.35 avg rating — 1,091 ratings
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Ibsen
Ibsen 4.18 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James and the Shondells
Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James and the Shondells 3.90 avg rating — 1,114 ratings
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The truth about and author
The truth about and author 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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John Stanley: Giving Life To Little Lulu
John Stanley: Giving Life To Little Lulu 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
160.
A.A. Milne. His life
A.A. Milne. His life 3.93 avg rating — 98 ratings
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W.E.B. Du Bois Speaks: Speeches and Addresses 1920-1963
W.E.B. Du Bois Speaks: Speeches and Addresses 1920-1963 4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Memories Of My Life: Being My Personal, Professional And Social Recollections As Woman And Artist
Memories Of My Life: Being My Personal, Professional And Social Recollections As Woman And Artist really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 132,010 ratings
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Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor 3.97 avg rating — 1,638 ratings
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Orwell
Orwell 3.96 avg rating — 247 ratings
164.
Praeterita: souvenirs de jeunesse
Praeterita: souvenirs de jeunesse 3.83 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark (John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University)
Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark (John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University) 4.43 avg rating — 581 ratings
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Trollope
Trollope 4.11 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela
Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela 4.02 avg rating — 681 ratings
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Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr
Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr 4.14 avg rating — 528 ratings
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Black Boy
Black Boy 4.09 avg rating — 55,310 ratings
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Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope 3.60 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela 4.06 avg rating — 453 ratings
172.
A Book about Myself
A Book about Myself 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Will Eisner: A Spirited Life
Will Eisner: A Spirited Life 3.76 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Alexandre Dumas: Genius of Life
Alexandre Dumas: Genius of Life 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Billy Joel
Billy Joel 3.91 avg rating — 2,105 ratings
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Early memories; some chapters of autobiography
Early memories; some chapters of autobiography it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Writer's Diary 1873-1881
A Writer's Diary 1873-1881 3.72 avg rating — 1,477 ratings
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon 4.02 avg rating — 3,527 ratings
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My memoirs
My memoirs 4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Un Jeune Officier Pauvre
Un Jeune Officier Pauvre really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Brother, I'm Dying
Brother, I'm Dying 4.16 avg rating — 7,576 ratings
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Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus
Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus 4.28 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year
Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year 3.90 avg rating — 41 ratings
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven
A Song Flung Up to Heaven 4.25 avg rating — 4,406 ratings
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A Writer's Diary
A Writer's Diary 4.16 avg rating — 6,459 ratings
188.
Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, And Redemption Of Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, And Redemption Of Jelly Roll Morton 4.18 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Chere Maitre: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert and George Sand
Chere Maitre: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert and George Sand it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Modern Nature
Modern Nature 4.33 avg rating — 1,775 ratings
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream 4.07 avg rating — 370,622 ratings
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No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan
No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan 4.11 avg rating — 2,245 ratings
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Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet : Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse
Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet : Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse 4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol 2: 1956-1963
The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol 2: 1956-1963 4.50 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000 4.21 avg rating — 429 ratings
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Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley
Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley 4.09 avg rating — 3,069 ratings
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Letters, 1925-1975
Letters, 1925-1975 3.93 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Une saison en Enfer
Une saison en Enfer 4.07 avg rating — 6,659 ratings
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The Education of Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams 3.63 avg rating — 4,868 ratings
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