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A Life Drawing

By Hughes, Shirley

Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling

By Gilmour, David

Poets in Their Youth

By Simpson, Eileen

Young Eliot: From St. Louis to the Waste Land

By Crawford, Professor of Modern Scottish Literature Robert

One Art: Letters

By Bishop, Elizabeth

Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara: A Memoir

By Lesueur, Joe

Fierce Attachments: A Memoir (FSG Classics)

By Gornick, Vivian

Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography

By James, P. D.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A Hearthbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

By Eggers, Dave

You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir

By Soyinka, Wole

Laura: the Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder

By Zochert, Donald

The Kiss

By Harrison, Kathryn

The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words

By Chandler, Raymond

Stevie Smith : A Biography

By Frances Spalding

Mood Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties (Paper )

By Mood, Jjl

Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation

By Meyers, Jeffrey

Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History

By Safire, WILLIAM

The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden

By Kunitz, Stanley, Lentine, Genine, Samuelson, Marnie Crawford

The Hemingway Women

By Kert, Bernice

Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet

By Feinstein, Elaine

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir

By Flynn, Nick

The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden

By Kunitz, Stanley, Samuelson, Marnie Crawford, Lentine, Genine

Townie: A Memoir

By Andre Dubus Iii

Blake's Poetry and Designs: 0 (Norton Critical Editions)

By Blake, WILLIAM, Grant, John E., Johnson, Mary Lynn

Letters to a Young Poet (Vintage): An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography

By Rilke, Rainer Maria, Mitchell, Stephen, Mitchell, Stephen

Edmund Wilson: A Biography

By Meyers, Jeffrey

Orton Diaries

By Orton, Joe, Lahr, John

Timebends: A Life

By Miller, Arthur

World Away: Memoir of Mervyn Peake

By Gilmore, Maeve

Letters, vol.1: 1926 to 1951

By John Betjeman, Candida Lycett Green