Henry Carter Hull

"From the author of A Three Dog Life, ... a memoir about aging, family, creativity, tragedy, friendship, and the richness of life"--Amazon.com.

A memoir in which the author, barely out of college, discusses the unrelated deaths of his parents within months of one another, and tells how he came to take responsibility for his eight-year-old brother, while also working to create the satirical magazine "Might."

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.

Andre Dubus III recounts life after his father, the prominent author, left his mother for a younger woman, describes how he used physical violence to defend his family from acts of physical violence in the Massachusetts mill town where they lived, and discusses how his interest in writing helped him reconnect with his father.

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

Biography of American author Edith Wharton discussing her life and writing career as well as the many-faceted woman behind the writer.

Algren is the definitive biography of one of the best-known writers of mid-20th-century America. Chicago journalist Mary Wisniewski interviewed dozens of Algren's inner circle, including photographer Art Shay and the late Studs Terkel, and examined Algren's unpublished writing and correspondence, including hundreds of letters he received from lover Simone de Beauvoir, to craft an account as entertaining as it is meticulously researched. Algren reveals...