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Chaucer: A European Life

By Marion Turner

What W. H. Auden Can Do for You (Writers on Writers): 5

By McCall Smith, Alexander

The Character of the Poet: Wordsworth in "The Prelude" (Princeton Legacy Library)

By Onorato, Richard J.

'Tis: A Memoir (Frank McCourt Memoirs)

By McCourt, Frank

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

By McCourt, Frank

The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult

By Walker, Alice

W. Somerset Maugham and His World

By Raphael, Frederick

Letters from London (Vintage International)

By Barnes, Julian

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

By Malcolm, J., Ms Janet

The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (Vintage International)

By Roth, Philip

Girl, Interrupted

By Kaysen, Susanna

Albert Camus: A Life

By Todd, Olivier, Todd, Clivier, Avry, Benjamin, Ivry

For Freedom's Battle

By Byron, George Gordon

Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky

By Safran, Gabriella

Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

The Cat Who Came in from the Cold

By Longden, Deric

Writing Home

By Bennett, Alan, Bennett, Alan, Bennett, Alan

In Parenthesis (Poets of the Great War)

By Jones, David

Places I've Taken My Body

By McCully Brown, Molly

The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall

By Du Maurier, Daphne

A Preface to Spenser (Preface Books)

By Shire, Helena Mennie

Moments of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical Writings

By Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Schulkind

The World of Charles Dickens (Panther S.)

By Wilson, Angus

Samuel Pepys: The Man in the Making v. 1 (Panther Books)

By Bryant, Arthur

The life of William Blake

By Wilson, Mona

Betjeman Country

By Delaney, Frank, Ravilious, James, Ison, Leonora

Aldous Huxley: The Apparent Stability, 1894-1939 v. 1 (Paladin Books)

By Bedford, Sybille

Aldous Huxley: The Turning Points, 1939-63 v. 2 (Paladin Books)

By Bedford, Sybille

Necessary Secrets: The First Volume of Elizabeth Smart's Journals

By Elizabeth Smart, Alice van Wart

The Greatest: Muhammad Ali

By Myers, Walter Dean