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- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
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- A moveable feast
- A private history of awe
- A splendid intelligence : the life of Elizabeth Hardwick
- A three dog life
- A three dog life
- Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticisms
- Algren : a life
- Alice McDermott
- Alice Walker
- All God's children need traveling shoes
- All the way to America : the story of a big Italian family and a little shovel
- All tomorrow's parties : a memoir
- American Rose : a nation laid bare : the life and times of Gypsy Rose Lee
- Amy Tan : unintended memoir
- An American childhood
- An American childhood
- An autobiography of Jack London
- Anchor & flares : a memoir of motherhood, hope, and service
- And you know you should be glad : a true story of lifelong friendship
- Andrew Weil
- Ann M. Martin
- Ann Rinaldi
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh : first lady of the air
- Arthur Agatston
- As I knew him : my dad, Rod Serling
- At the end of the road : Jack Kerouac in Mexico
- Atticus Finch, the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Author, the JT LeRoy story
- Autobiography of my hungers
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Bad kid : a memoir
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Ray Bradbury
- Ben Hecht : the man behind the legend
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beverly Cleary
- Bill Peet : an autobiography
- Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth
- Blind man's bluff
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- Bradbury beyond Apollo
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the sixties
- Burro genius : a memoir
- Burroughs : the movie
- Butterfly boy : memories of a Chicano mariposa
- Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era
- Caroline Kennedy
- Carrie Fisher
- Caught by the sea : my life on boats
- Charlaine Harris
- Charles Bukowski
- Charles Bukowski : locked in the arms of a crazy life
- Christmas remembered
- City boy : my life in New York during the 1960s and '70s
- Claude McKay
- Cool, calm & contentious
- Cross Creek
- Dad's maybe book
- Dalton Trumbo
- Dalton Trumbo
- Daniel Handler
- Daniel Silva
- Dashiell Hammett
- Dashiell Hammett : man of mystery
- Dave Barry
- Dave Eggers
- David Foster Wallace
- Dean Koontz
- Deepak Chopra
- Della : a memoir of my daughter
- Dinesh D'Souza
- Don't tell the girls : a family memoir
- Donna Tartt
- Dorothy Parker
- Down a sunny dirt road : an autobiography
- Dr. Seuss
- Dr. Seuss, the cat behind the hat
- Drinking with Bukowski : recollections of the poet laureate of Skid Row
- E. B. White
- E.B. White
- Early works
- Edith Wharton
- Elia Kazan
- Elia Kazan : a life
- Emily Post : daughter of the Gilded Age, mistress of American manners
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Eric Carle
- Erica Jong
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Hemingway : a new life
- Ernesto : the untold story of Hemingway in revolutionary Cuba
- Eudora Welty
- Eudora Welty : a biography
- Eve Bunting
- Everybody behaves badly : the true story behind Hemingway's masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Farther & wilder : the lost weekends and literary dreams of Charles Jackson
- Fascination : memoirs : Bedrooms have windows, Bachelors get lonely, Triangles in the sand
- Ferlinghetti : a rebirth of wonder
- Ferlinghetti : a rebirth of wonder
- Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016
- Finding Iris Chang : friendship, ambition, and the loss of an extraordinary mind
- Five pages a day : a writer's journey
- Flight risk : memoirs of a New Orleans bad boy
- For the duration
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Frank Herbert
- Frank McCourt
- Garrison Keillor
- Garrison Keillor : the man on the radio in the red shoes
- Gary Paulsen
- Genri Miller
- George R. R. Martin
- Gertrude Stein
- Gertrude Stein has arrived : the homecoming of a literary legend
- Ghost songs : a memoir
- Going for infinity : a literary journey
- Gonzo : the life and work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- Good dog. Stay
- Goodbye, I love you
- Goodbye, darkness : a memoir of the Pacific War
- Gore Vidal
- Grace Lee Boggs
- Grace Paley
- Green hills of Africa
- Growing up
- Guts : the true stories behind Hatchet and the Brian books
- H. A. Rey
- H. P. Lovecraft
- H.L. Mencken
- Harper Lee
- Hemingway
- Hemingway at eighteen : the pivotal year that launched an American legend
- Hemingway at war : Ernest Hemingway's adventures as a World War II correspondent
- Hemingway in love : his own story
- Henry Miller (American writer)
- Henry Miller : prophet of desire
- Here if you need me
- Here we all are
- Herman Wouk
- Highsmith : a romance of the 1950's : a memoir
- Homegrown Democrat : a few plain thoughts from the heart of America
- Horizon
- House lessons : renovating a life
- How I accidentally joined the vast right-wing conspiracy (and found inner peace)
- How do we know when it's God? : a spiritual memoir
- Hungry heart
- Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I love you, Miss Huddleston, and other inappropriate longings of my Indiana childhood
- Iceberg Slim : portrait of a pimp
- In bed with Gore Vidal : hustlers, Hollywood, and the private world of an American master
- In the body of the world : a memoir
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- Influencing Hemingway : people and places that shaped his life and work
- Inside a pearl : my years in Paris
- Invitations to the world : teaching and writing for young
- Isaac Asimov
- Ishmael Reed
- It's all a kind of magic : the young Ken Kesey
- It's been a good life
- J. D. Salinger
- J.D. Salinger : the escape artist
- Jack Kerouac
- Jack Kerouac's American journey : the real-life odyssey of On the road
- Jack Kerouac, king of the Beats : a portrait
- Jack London
- Jack London : a life
- Jack London : an American life
- Jack and Norman : a state-raised convict and the legacy of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song
- James Agee
- James Baldwin : a biography
- James Baldwin : living in fire
- James Dashner
- James Weldon Johnson
- Jane Yolen
- Jean Toomer
- Jerry Spinelli
- Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Jill Abramson
- Jim Harbaugh
- John Cheever
- Joseph Bruchac : an author kids love
- Judith (Stahl) Viorst
- Judy Blume
- Junot Diaz
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Katherine Anne Porter remembered
- Katherine Paterson
- Kay Thompson : from Funny face to Eloise
- Keeping secrets
- Ken Kesey
- Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly
- Knots in my yo-yo string : the autobiography of a kid
- L. Frank Baum
- L. Frank Baum, creator of Oz
- L. Ron Hubbard
- Larry Kramer
- Larry Kramer : in love & anger
- Later works
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Laura Ingalls Wilder : a storybook life
- Laura Ingalls Wilder : pioneer woman
- Laurence Yep
- Laurie Halse Anderson
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Leslie Silko
- Libertarians on the prairie : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the making of the Little House Books
- Lies my mother never told me : a memoir
- Little house in the Ozarks : a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings
- Little house in the Ozarks : a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings
- Logical family : a memoir
- Lois Lenski : storycatcher
- Lois Lowry
- Looking for Betty MacDonald : the egg, the plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake : [a memoir]
- Louis Sachar
- Louis Sachar
- Madeleine L'Engle
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings : writing in rural Florida
- Mark Twain's other woman : the hidden story of his final years
- Marshfield dreams : when I was a kid
- Matthew Quick
- Maurice Sendak
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou, and still I rise
- Maya Angelou, and still I rise
- Meg Cabot
- Mentors, muses & monsters : 30 writers on the people who changed their lives
- Michael Chabon
- Mickey Spillane
- Mildred D. Taylor
- Mockingbird : a portrait of Harper Lee
- Mockingbird : a portrait of Harper Lee
- Mom & me & mom
- Money, murder, and Dominick Dunne : a life in several acts
- Monkey business : the adventures of Curious George's creators
- Monkey business : the adventures of Curious George's creators
- Mozart and Leadbelly : stories and essays
- Mr. CSI : how a Vegas dreamer made a killing in Hollywood, one body at a time
- My Amish childhood : [a true story of faith, family, and the simple life]
- My Venice and other essays
- My depression : (the up and down and up of it)
- My depression : The up and down and up of it
- My dog Skip
- My exaggerated life
- My journey with Maya
- My life as a villainess : essays
- My life as a villainess : essays
- My life in dog years
- My reading life
- My young life : a memoir : 1944-1964 the Bronx, Manhattan, Mexico, Syracuse, Alphabet City
- N. Scott Momaday
- N. Scott Momaday : words from a bear
- Nabokov in America : on the road to Lolita
- Nella Larsen
- Never a lovely so real : the life and work of Nelson Algren
- No more words : a journal of my mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Nobody's son : notes from an American life
- Norman Mailer : a double life
- Not dead yet: : a feisty bohemian explores the art of growing old
- Now beacon, now sea : a son's memoir
- O.J. in the morning, G&T at night : spirited dispatches on aging with joie de vivre
- Octavia E. Butler
- Off the road : my years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg
- On my way
- On writing : a memoir of the craft
- One of these things first : a memoir
- Onions in the stew
- Orson Scott Card
- Otto Binder : the life and work of a comic book and science fiction visionary
- Parisian lives : Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir
- Paul Bowles : the cage door is always open
- Paul Goodman changed my life
- Paul Zindel
- Paul and me : fifty-three years of adventures and misadventures with my pal Paul Newman
- Peninsula of lies : a true story of mysterious birth and taboo love
- Perfectly miserable : guilt, God and real estate in a small town
- Philip K. Dick
- Philip Roth : the biography
- Pink triangle : the feuds and private lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and members of their entourages
- Piri Thomas
- Pisatelʹ, mori︠a︡k, soldat, shpion : taĭnai︠a︡ zhiznʹ Ėrnesta Kheminguėi︠a︡, 1935-1961 gg.
- Planting stories : the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpré
- Portrait of a novel : Henry James and the making of an American masterpiece
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Prairie girl : the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- R. L. Stine
- Raising demons
- Ray Bradbury
- Ray Bradbury unbound
- Raymond Carver
- Raymond Chandler
- Revertigo : an off-kilter memoir
- Richard Scarry
- Richard Wright
- Richard Wright : from Black boy to world citizen
- Rick Riordan
- Riding the bus with my sister
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Robert A. Heinlein : in dialogue with his century
- Robert Kirkman
- Robert Ludlum
- Rod Serling : his life, work, and imagination
- Rudolfo Alfonso Anaya
- Running with the bulls : my years with the Hemingways
- Running with the bulls : my years with the Hemingways
- S.E. Hinton
- Sailor and fiddler : reflections of a 100-year-old author
- Salinger
- Screening room : family pictures
- Secret historian : the life and times of Samuel Steward, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade
- Self-help messiah : Dale Carnegie and success in modern America
- Sempre Susan : a memoir of Susan Sontag
- Senior moments : looking back, looking ahead
- Shel Silverstein
- Sherman Alexie
- Sherwood Anderson
- Shirley Jackson : a rather haunted life
- Shirley Jackson : a rather haunted life
- Shockaholic
- Shockaholic
- Sometimes you have to lie : the life and times of Louise Fitzhugh, renegade author of Harriet the spy
- Sontag : her life and work
- Speak, memory : an autobiography revisited
- Stephen King goes to the movies
- Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson
- Stories of my life
- Studs Terkel
- Studs Terkel : listening to America
- Subterranean Kerouac : the hidden life of Jack Kerouac
- Sue Monk Kidd
- Susan Sontag : the making of an icon
- Suzanne Collins
- Sympathy for the devil : four decades of friendship with Gore Vidal
- Tales from a free-range childhood
- Talking to myself : a memoir of my times
- Tell me a story : my life with Pat Conroy
- Tell them anything you want : a portrait of Maurice Sendak
- Tell them anything you want : a portrait of Maurice Sendak
- Thanks for waiting : the joy (& weirdness) of being a late bloomer
- The Bradbury chronicles : the life of Ray Bradbury
- The Christmas box miracle : my spiritual journey of destiny, healing, and hope
- The Princess diarist
- The art of vanishing : a memoir of wanderlust
- The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- The awakener : a memoir of Kerouac and the fifties
- The best of us : a memoir
- The best of us : a memoir
- The breaking point : Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the murder of Jos? Robles
- The bridge across forever : a lovestory
- The cat who came for Christmas
- The chicken chronicles
- The chicken chronicles : sitting with the angels who have returned with my memories : Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe : a memoir
- The compleat memoirrhoids : 137.N
- The cooked seed : a memoir
- The draw : a memoir
- The genius of language : fifteen writers reflect on their mother tongues
- The ghost in the little house : a life of Rose Wilder Lane
- The golden willow : the story of a lifetime of love
- The heart of a woman
- The hue and cry at our house : a year remembered
- The inevitable : contemporary writers confront death
- The invisible wall : a love story that broke barriers
- The late interiors : a life under construction
- The life of Saul Bellow, To fame and fortune, 1915-1964
- The life of William Faulkner, Volume 1, The past is never dead, 1897-1934
- The long accomplishment : a memoir of hope and struggle in matrimony
- The lost detective : becoming Dashiell Hammett
- The lost landscape : a writer's coming of age
- The lost landscape : a writer's coming of age
- The lost prince : a search for Pat Conroy
- The making of a writer
- The mockingbird next door : life with Harper Lee
- The mockingbird next door : life with Harper Lee
- The most famous writer who ever lived : a true story of my family
- The narrow door : a memoir of friendship
- The notorious Ben Hecht : iconoclastic writer and militant Zionist
- The plague and I
- The princess diarist
- The princess diarist
- The princess diarist
- The real Wizard of Oz : the life and times of L. Frank Baum
- The red letters : my father's enchanted period
- The road
- The secret history of Vladimir Nabokov
- The selected letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The skeptic : a life of H.L. Mencken
- The snow leopard
- The story of Charlotte's Web : E.B. White's eccentric life in nature and the birth of an American classic
- The talented Miss Highsmith : the secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith
- The tastemaker : Carl Van Vechten and the birth of modern America
- The traveling feast : on the road and at the table with my heroes
- The tulip and the Pope : [a nun's story]
- The turquoise ledge : [a memoir]
- The untold journey : the life of Diana Trilling
- The world of Laura Ingalls Wilder : the frontier landscapes that inspired the Little House books
- The writing life
- The writing life
- The writing life
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
- These precious days : [essays]
- These precious days : essays
- Things will never be the same
- This boy's life : a memoir
- This is the story of a happy marriage
- This is the story of a happy marriage
- This is the story of a happy marriage
- This is the story of a happy marriage
- This is where we came in
- This old man : all in pieces
- Thomas Eisner
- Thornton Wilder : a life
- Three weeks with my brother
- Three weeks with my brother
- Tom Wolfe
- Tomie dePaola
- Tomie dePaola : his art & his stories
- Toni Morrison : the pieces I am
- Touch and go : a memoir
- Travels with Charley : in search of America
- Truman Capote
- Truman Capote : in which various friends, enemies, acquaintances, and detractors recall his turbulent career
- Trumbo
- Two lives : Gertrude and Alice
- Tyler Perry
- Tyler Perry
- Una casa propia : : historias de mi vida
- Unbelievable happiness and final sorrow : the Hemingway-Pfeiffer marriage
- Under magnolia : a Southern memoir
- Under magnolia : a Southern memoir
- Updike
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Visible man : the life of Henry Dumas
- Visions and revisions : coming of age in the age of AIDS
- Walter Dean Myers
- Walter Dean Myers
- Wayne Dyer
- Wayne LaPierre
- What a year
- What comes next and how to like it : a memoir
- What comes next and how to like it : a memoir
- What drowns the flowers in your mouth : a memoir of brotherhood
- What happened to Kerouac?
- When I was your age : original stories about growing up, Volume 2
- When all the world was young : a memoir
- When everybody wore a hat
- When we were the Kennedys : a memoir from Mexico, Maine
- Where the light fell : a memoir
- Who was Maurice Sendak?
- William Joyce
- William S. Burroughs : a Man Within
- Winter dreams, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Wishful drinking
- Words and worlds : from autobiography to zippers
- Working : researching, interviewing, writing
- Writer, sailor, soldier, spy : Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures, 1935-1961
- Writer, sailor, soldier, spy : Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures, 1935-1961
- You don't have to say you love me : a memoir
- You don't have to say you love me : a memoir
- You'll be okay : my life with Jack Kerouac
- Zane Grey
- Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald : an American woman's life
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Zora Neale Hurston : a biography of the spirit
- Zvezdy i nemnogo nervno : memuarnye vinʹetki
- Życie na trzy psy
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