Told in her own words, A Girl from Yamhill is Newbery Medal–winning author Beverly Cleary’s heartfelt and relatable memoir — now with a beautifully redesigned cover
A memoir. — New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. — 448 p. — ISBN: 0-679-76205-1. The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy , James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother. In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer...
A memoir. — New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-59432-7. The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir — as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels — about his obsessive search for “atonement in women.” The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son,...
Dial Press Trade, 2007 Literary legend James A. Michener was a Renaissance man, adventurous, inquisitive, unpretentious and unassuming, with an encyclopedic mind and a generous heart (The New York Times Book Review). In this exceptional memoir, the man himself tells the story of his remarkable life and describes the people, events, and ideas that shaped it.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. — 640 p. — ISBN10: 0374521042; ISBN13: 978-0374521042. Edited Sally Fitzgerald. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award. "I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters...There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own...
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