Henry Carter Hull

Mark Twain's account of his transformation into a Westerner when he joins his brother, a newly appointed federal official, in Nevada.

Contains essays in which Maya Angelou uses memories and poems to offer life lessons and inspirational wisdom to the "thousands of daughters" she considers her extended family.

"Known as the wittiest woman in America and a founder of the fabled Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was also one of the Jazz Age's most beloved poets. Her verbal dexterity and cynical humor were on full display in the many poems she published in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Life and collected in her first book in 1926. Now available as a stand-alone edition, the famous humorist's debut collection--a runaway bestseller in 1926--ranges from...

When Abby Chandlis writes a best selling novel under a fictitious name she convinces a former assassin to pose as the work's writer but the arrangement soon turns to terror as she cannot convince anyone that she is the true author.

"The first authorized biography of a great American novelist"--

When beautiful, reckless, seventeen-year-old Zelda Sayre meets Lieutenant Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald at a country club dance, he isn't rich or settled; no one knows his people; and he wants, of all things, to be a writer in New York. After Scott sells his first novel, Zelda defies her parents to marry him in the vestry of St. Patrick's Cathedral. It is the Jazz Age, and for Zelda and Scott the future will be grander and stranger than they could...

"More than 30 acclaimed writers--including diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni, David Omotosho Black, Natasha Trethewey, Barry Jenkins, Jacqueline Woodson, Tayari Jones, and Angela Flournoy--reflect on their experience and expertise in this unique book on the craft of writing that focuses on the Black creative spirit. How We Do It is an anthology curated by Black writers for the creation and proliferation of Black thought. While a creator's ethnicity...

Chronicles the life of writer Kahlil Gibran and discusses his childhood, his writings, his beliefs, and his ideas about spiritual fulfillment.

A memoir in which Anne Roiphe shares her experiences during the 1950s and 1960s when she sacrificed her own dreams and ambitions to her husband, a writer, and discusses the world of art, alcoholism, and abuse in which she lived before her divorce.