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Green hills of Africa (Scribner classics)
Par Ernest Hemingway. 1998
Presents Wright's complete autobiography for the first time, combining his childhood in the South (Black Boy) with his life as…
an adult in the North (American Hunger). Also contains his 1953 novel (The Outsider), a literary chronology, and extensive notes. Sequel to Richard Wright: Early Works (DB 41552, BR 10299). Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sexTravels with Charley: in search of America
Par John Steinbeck. 1962
Feeling that as an American writer he has lost touch with his country, the author sets out on a swing…
around the United States to see what it is really like. He travels in a trailer with "an old French gentleman poodle." Here is the leisurely account of what he saw, whom he talked with, and his conclusions, hopeful and otherwiseGrumbles from the grave
Par Robert Heinlein. 1989
It was Heinlein's wish to have his letters published after his death. Virginia, his wife of forty years, has collected…
the letter, begun in 1939, to Heinlein's editors and to his longtime friend and agent Lurton Blassingame. The letters give us an insight into the psyche of the popular science fiction author. They show his thoughts on publishers, fan mail, writing material, travel, work habits, and even house buildingBio of an ogre: the autobiography of Piers Anthony to age 50
Par Piers Anthony. 1988
Fantasy writer Piers Anthony has, by his own admission, written a highly selective and subjective account of his first fifty…
years, attempting to write not only the "what" of his life but also the "why." Each of the five sections covers a decade of his lifeEducation of a wandering man
Par Louis L'Amour. 1989
A personal reflection by the prolific and beloved writer of westerns. At fifteen Louis L'Amour left school, trusting his education…
to his own curiosity and the world's vastness. Armed with books, he roamed the world, cow-punching, working as a circus roustabout, mining, prize-fighting, hoboing, and serving as a merchant seaman. He shares the richness and variety of his education with the readerFyodor Dostoyevsky, a writer's life
Par Geir Kjetsaa. 1987
A leading Norwegian scholar quotes extensively from Dostoyevsky's notebooks and from his letters to wives and lovers. Kjetsaa chronicles the…
great Russian novelist's personal life and development as a writer and provides a stirring portrait of a driven man