Henry Carter Hull

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.

Contains autobiographical essays by American critic and cultural commentator Terry Castle, and features a short memoir in which she recalls her graduate school relationship with a female professor.

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

Explores the life and achievements of Zora Neale Hurston, discussing how she dealt with ill health and funded her projects and exploring her relationships with family members and friends, her influence during the Harlem Renaissance, and more.

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.

Named one of the Best Books of the Century by New York MagazineTwo-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a black man in the rural South.“We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to...

Margaret Robison chronicles her life, discussing her tortured childhood in the South, her abusive marriage, her battles with mental illness, the stroke that nearly destroyed her, and her eventual redemption.

Text and a few photographs examine the many facets of Wharton's life, and her relationships with publishers. Also explores her charitable work during World War I, and the financial distress that contributed to her death.

A biography of Sarah Winnemucca, Paiute Indian and Native American civil rights activists, discussing her childhood, her work as an advocate for all Native Americans, and the appeals to white America to treat her people with dignity.