Literary biographies

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The Family Idiot 4: Gustave Flaubert 1821-57
The Family Idiot 4: Gustave Flaubert 1821-57 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Written Lives
Written Lives 3.81 avg rating — 1,210 ratings
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An Autobiography
An Autobiography 3.83 avg rating — 548 ratings
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Journal of a Solitude
Journal of a Solitude 4.14 avg rating — 5,895 ratings
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Genet
Genet 4.21 avg rating — 701 ratings
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Byron: Life and Legend
Byron: Life and Legend 4.19 avg rating — 616 ratings
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John le Carré: The Biography
John le Carré: The Biography 3.95 avg rating — 987 ratings
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Goodbye Christopher Robin: A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh 3.41 avg rating — 722 ratings
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Mrs. Hemingway
Mrs. Hemingway 3.83 avg rating — 9,988 ratings
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Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975
Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 3.64 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew 4.34 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood 3.97 avg rating — 56,659 ratings
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The world of Charles Dickens
The world of Charles Dickens 3.55 avg rating — 40 ratings
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John Steinbeck: A Biography
John Steinbeck: A Biography 4.04 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature
Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature 3.85 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? 3.98 avg rating — 4,160 ratings
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The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert 1821-1857 - Volume 5
The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert 1821-1857 - Volume 5 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Jack Kerouac's American Journey: The Real-Life Odyssey of "On the Road"
Jack Kerouac's American Journey: The Real-Life Odyssey of "On the Road" 3.51 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Life of Katherine Mansfield
The Life of Katherine Mansfield 3.78 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Sam Shepard: A Life
Sam Shepard: A Life 3.81 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage
Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage 3.95 avg rating — 408 ratings
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In Search Of Mary Shelley
In Search Of Mary Shelley 3.63 avg rating — 850 ratings
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death 3.99 avg rating — 49,913 ratings
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Cheever: A Life
Cheever: A Life 4.18 avg rating — 729 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 3.87 avg rating — 34,488 ratings
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Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life
Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life 4.32 avg rating — 900 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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The Paris Wife
The Paris Wife 3.82 avg rating — 302,774 ratings
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The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune 1915-1964
The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune 1915-1964 4.17 avg rating — 95 ratings
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From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker
From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Passionate Minds
Passionate Minds 4.10 avg rating — 1,124 ratings
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Shakespeare: For All Time
Shakespeare: For All Time 4.14 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Where I Was From: A Memoir
Where I Was From: A Memoir 3.86 avg rating — 6,197 ratings
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Alison Uttley
Alison Uttley 3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Colette, a Passion for Life
Colette, a Passion for Life 4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Young Shakespeare
Young Shakespeare 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World 4.13 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Eudora: A Writer's Life
Eudora: A Writer's Life 3.76 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005
The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005 4.27 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Who Was Dracula?: Bram Stoker's Trail of Blood
Who Was Dracula?: Bram Stoker's Trail of Blood 3.38 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Ferber: Edna Ferber and Her Circle: Biography of Edna Ferber and Her Circle (Applause Books)
Ferber: Edna Ferber and Her Circle: Biography of Edna Ferber and Her Circle (Applause Books) 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Dawn Powell: A Biography
Dawn Powell: A Biography
by: Tim Page
4.20 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Creating Colette: From Baroness to Woman of Letters, 1912-1954
Creating Colette: From Baroness to Woman of Letters, 1912-1954 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Shakespeare: The Later Years
Shakespeare: The Later Years liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers 3.95 avg rating — 460 ratings
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Faulkner: A Biography (Volume 1 of 2)
Faulkner: A Biography (Volume 1 of 2) 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley
A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley 3.89 avg rating — 95 ratings
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William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life
William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life 4.28 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf's Last Years
The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf's Last Years 4.07 avg rating — 58 ratings
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A Legacy (New York Review Books Classics)
A Legacy (New York Review Books Classics) 3.65 avg rating — 919 ratings
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Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing 4.21 avg rating — 3,250 ratings
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Faulkner: A Biography (Volume 2 of 2)
Faulkner: A Biography (Volume 2 of 2) 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Rough Magic
Rough Magic 3.91 avg rating — 1,744 ratings
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Wild Mary: The Life of Mary Wesley
Wild Mary: The Life of Mary Wesley 3.73 avg rating — 342 ratings
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O'Neill: Life with Monte Cristo
O'Neill: Life with Monte Cristo 4.36 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life
Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life 3.97 avg rating — 357 ratings
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Faulkner: A Biography
Faulkner: A Biography 4.19 avg rating — 134 ratings
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A Thinking Reed
A Thinking Reed 4.10 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens 4.22 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val d'Orcia
Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val d'Orcia 3.96 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World
Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World 4.02 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh 3.91 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the 'Cornfield Journalist': The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris
Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the 'Cornfield Journalist': The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Shakespeare: A Life
Shakespeare: A Life 3.75 avg rating — 179 ratings
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FIGHT AND KICK AND BITE: LIFE AND WORK OF DENNIS POTTER
FIGHT AND KICK AND BITE: LIFE AND WORK OF DENNIS POTTER 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings
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All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2) 4.35 avg rating — 155,371 ratings
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Joel Chandler Harris: A Biography and Critical Study (Brown Thrasher Books)
Joel Chandler Harris: A Biography and Critical Study (Brown Thrasher Books) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Fence Around The Cuckoo and Fishing in the Styx
A Fence Around The Cuckoo and Fishing in the Styx
by: Ruth Park
4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Elizabeth of the German Garden: A Literary Journey
Elizabeth of the German Garden: A Literary Journey 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Goethe: The Poet and the Age, Volume 2: Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803
Goethe: The Poet and the Age, Volume 2: Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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A Writer's House in Wales
A Writer's House in Wales 3.80 avg rating — 335 ratings
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Sisters by a River
Sisters by a River 3.80 avg rating — 765 ratings
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Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic
Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic 4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Leonard Woolf: A Biography
Leonard Woolf: A Biography 4.12 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography
Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography 4.10 avg rating — 1,255 ratings
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Conundrum
Conundrum 3.90 avg rating — 2,167 ratings
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You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker 3.87 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets
Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets 3.81 avg rating — 67 ratings
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A Life in Letters
A Life in Letters 4.34 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Mug Shots, a Memoir
Mug Shots, a Memoir 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Trollope
Trollope 4.11 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Mortality
Mortality 4.12 avg rating — 29,012 ratings
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Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett 4.28 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM
Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM 3.95 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Raising Demons
Raising Demons 4.15 avg rating — 2,962 ratings
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Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography
Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography 4.14 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John
Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John 3.35 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie
Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie 3.62 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Nancy Cunard: A Biography
Nancy Cunard: A Biography 3.98 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Masters of Mystery: The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini
Masters of Mystery: The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini 3.46 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Byron: The Flawed Angel
Byron: The Flawed Angel 3.95 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit
Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Wheels Within Wheels
Wheels Within Wheels 4.22 avg rating — 540 ratings
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Shakespeare's Ideas: More Things in Heaven and Earth
Shakespeare's Ideas: More Things in Heaven and Earth 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1934-1939
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1934-1939 4.22 avg rating — 2,898 ratings
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Two Under the Indian Sun
Two Under the Indian Sun 4.02 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Evelyn Waugh: A Biography
Evelyn Waugh: A Biography 4.02 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Zora Neale Hurston's Final Decade
Zora Neale Hurston's Final Decade 3.76 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? 4.04 avg rating — 1,772 ratings
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A Sort of Life
A Sort of Life 3.68 avg rating — 862 ratings
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