Literary Bios
7. 
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
by:
Melanie Rehak
3.76 avg rating — 3,232 ratings 7. 
In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
by:
Amy Gary
3.61 avg rating — 2,329 ratings 
11. 
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
by:
Sarah Bakewell
4.02 avg rating — 10,620 ratings 
13. 
The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America
by:
Arnold Rampersad
4.49 avg rating — 215 ratings 13. 
The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five (Books About Books)
by:
Tom Roston
3.69 avg rating — 299 ratings 
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 3.67 avg rating — 1,798 ratings
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
by:
Charlotte Gordon
4.22 avg rating — 7,201 ratings 21. 
The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling
by:
Ann McCutchan
4.05 avg rating — 191 ratings 23. 
Ben Robertson: South Carolina Journalist and Author
by:
Jodie Peeler
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 24. 
A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time
by:
Sarah Arthur
4.10 avg rating — 883 ratings 25. 
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring
by:
William Souder
3.91 avg rating — 933 ratings 
27. 
Peter Orlovsky, a Life in Words: Intimate Chronicles of a Beat Writer
by:
Peter Orlovsky
3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings 
29. 
Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
by:
Blake Bailey
4.12 avg rating — 84 ratings 
31. 
Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
by:
Alice Kaplan
4.12 avg rating — 310 ratings 32. 
The Lady with the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire
by:
Laura Claridge
3.59 avg rating — 142 ratings 33. 
The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature
by:
Ben Tarnoff
3.82 avg rating — 754 ratings 34. 
Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs
by:
Ted Morgan
4.16 avg rating — 1,896 ratings 35. 
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Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature
by:
Philip Nel
3.76 avg rating — 86 ratings 37. 
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Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the 'Cornfield Journalist': The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris
by:
Walter M. Brasch
4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings 
41. 
Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces
by:
Cory MacLauchlin
3.82 avg rating — 577 ratings 
45. 
Writing Gatsby The Real Story behind the Writing of the Greatest American Novel. 3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
46. 
Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
by:
Suzanne Slade
4.38 avg rating — 1,034 ratings 47. 
Nearer the Heart's Desire: Poets of the Rubaiyat: A Dual Biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald 3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings
48. 
The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound
by:
Daniel Swift
3.66 avg rating — 149 ratings 
53. 
Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet
by:
Daisy Dunn
3.71 avg rating — 286 ratings 54. 
Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet
by:
Philip Freeman
3.92 avg rating — 448 ratings 55. 
For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey Through a Chinese Prison
by:
Liao Yiwu
4.01 avg rating — 423 ratings 56. 
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Crowded by Beauty: The Life and Zen of Poet Philip Whalen
by:
David Schneider
4.09 avg rating — 45 ratings 
59. 
Tennessee: Cry of the Heart: An Intimate Memoir of Tennessee Williams
by:
Dotson Rader
3.38 avg rating — 63 ratings 
62. 
A Mysterious Something in the Light: The Life of Raymond Chandler
by:
Tom Williams
4.08 avg rating — 170 ratings 
64. 
The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends 3.94 avg rating — 3,721 ratings
66. 
Once Upon A Time in Atlanta - The Chattahoochee Review (Volume XVIII, Number 2)
by:
Raymond Andrews
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
68. 
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature
by:
Suzanne W. Jones
4.06 avg rating — 86 ratings 
70. 
Finding Ireland: A Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture liked it 3.00 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Robert Penn Warren and the American Imagination
by:
Hugh Ruppersburg
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
74. 
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
by:
Imani Perry
4.27 avg rating — 1,502 ratings 
