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Byron In Love

By O'Brien, Edna

Pour Me: A Life

By Gill, AA

My History: A Memoir of Growing Up

By Lady Antonia Fraser

Edmund Blunden: A Biography

By Webb, Barry

John Ruskin: The Early Years

By Timothy Hilton

Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian

By Honegger, Gitta

Charles Dickens

By Michael Slater

The Great Charles Dickens Scandal

By Michael Slater

John Evelyn: Living for Ingenuity

By Darley, Gillian

Strindberg - A Life

By Prideaux, Sue

One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

By Ashton, Rosemary

Life is a Four Letter Word, vol.2: Breaking Out

By Monsarrat, Nicholas

Getting To Know Him: A Biography Of Oscar Hammerstein II

By Fordin, Hugh

What I Talk about When I Talk about Running: A Memoir (Vintage International)

By Murakami, Haruki

Jack's Book

By Gifford, Barry

Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul

By Reynolds, Barbara

Wuthering Heights (Case Study in Contemporary Criticism)

By Bront E.

Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood

By Mezlekia, Nega

The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Biography

By Miller, Russell

Running with Scissors: A Memoir

By Burroughs, Augusten

The Paris Review Interviews, IV: 4

By The Paris Review

Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir

By Vidal, Gore

Flaubert: A Biography

By Brown, Frederick

Vigny Par Lui-meme

By Viallaneix, Paul

The Brontes

By Bentley, Phyllis

Kerouac: A Biography (Picador Books)

By Charters, Ann

Clive James: Unreliable Memoirs (Picador Edition)

By James, Clive, Clive James

Running in the Family (Picador Books)

By Ondaatje, Michael

Life of Dashiell Hammett (Picador Books)

By Johnson, Diane

Falling Towards England : Unreliable Memoirs II

By James, Clive