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- A circle of quiet
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- A good enough daughter : a memoir
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A man without a country
- A man without a country
- A mysterious something in the light : the life of Raymond Chandler
- A mysterious something in the light : the life of Raymond Chandler
- A pocket history of sex in the twentieth century : a memoir
- A prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A private history of awe
- A private life of Henry James : two women and his art
- A step from death : a memoir
- A three dog life : [a memoir]
- A ticket to the circus : a memoir
- A voice from old New York : a memoir of my youth
- A welcoming life : the M.F.K. Fisher scrapbook
- A whole new life : an illness and a healing
- A widow's story : a memoir
- A writer's life
- About Alice
- Acedia & me : a marriage, monks, and a writer's life
- Addicted : notes from the belly of the beast
- Addicted : notes from the belly of the beast
- African silences
- African silences
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- Against memoir : complaints confessions & criticisms
- Alice Walker : [comprehensive biography and critical analysis]
- Alice Walker : a life
- All God's children need traveling shoes
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- All tomorrow's parties : a memoir
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- American Rose : a nation laid bare : the life and times of Gypsy Rose Lee
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- American rose : [a nation laid bare : the life and times of Gypsy Rose Lee]
- American rose : a nation laid bare : the life and times of Gypsy Rose Lee
- An autobiography of Jack London
- Anais Nin : a biography
- Anais Nin : naked under the mask
- And God came in
- And everything is going fine
- And everything is going fine
- And you know you should be glad : a true story of lifelong friendship
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh : a gift for life
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh : her life
- Another life : a memoir of other people
- Apprenticed to Venus : my secret life with Anaïs Nin
- Ardent spirits : leaving home, coming back
- Atop an Underwood : early stories and other writings
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Autobiography of a wardrobe : [a memoir]
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- B & me : a true story of literary arousal
- Backing into forward : a memoir
- Bad kid : a memoir
- Bohemia : where art, angst, love, and strong coffee meet
- Brother, I'm dying
- Burro genius : a memoir
- Burroughs : the movie
- Chaplin and Agee : the untold story of the tramp, the writer, and the lost screenplay
- Cheever : a life
- Cheever : a life
- Child of light : a biography of Robert Stone
- China men
- Chosen forever : a memoir
- Chosen forever : a memoir
- City boy : my life in New York during the 1960s and '70s
- Comfort me with offal : Ruth Bourdain's guide to modern gastronomy
- Compass points : how I lived
- Contemporary authors : a bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general non-fiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. --
- Cooked seed : a memoir
- Cool, calm & contentious
- Create dangerously : the immigrant artist at work
- Dad's maybe book
- Dalton Trumbo : blacklisted Hollywood radical
- Death be not proud
- Do-over! : in which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments
- Downstream from troutfishing in America : a memoir of Richard Brautigan
- Dreadful : the short life and gay times of John Horne Burns
- Drinking the rain
- E.B. White : a biography
- Edith : the cat who ate an elm tree
- Edmund Wilson : a life in literature
- Ekaterinoslav : one family's passage to America : a memoir in verse
- Elia Kazan : a life
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernesto : the untold story of Hemingway in revolutionary Cuba
- Everybody into the pool : true tales
- Everybody's autobiography
- Falling : a daughter, a father, and a journey back
- Farther & wilder : the lost weekends and literary dreams of Charles Jackson
- Fear of fifty : a midlife memoir
- February house : [the story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, under one roof in wartime America]
- Feed the hungry : a memoir, with recipes
- Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016
- Finding Iris Chang : friendship, ambition, and the loss of an extraordinary mind
- Fitzgerald and Hemingway : a dangerous friendship
- Flannery : a life of Flannery O'Connor
- Floor sample : a creative memoir
- Flyover lives : a memoir
- Genesis angels : the saga of Lew Welch and the Beat generation
- Geniuses together : American writers in Paris in the 1920s
- George, being George : George Plimpton's life as told, admired, deplored, and envied by 200 friends, relatives, lovers, acquaintances, rivals-- and a few unappreciative observers
- Ghost songs : a memoir
- Good dog. Stay
- Good dog. Stay
- Gore Vidal : a biography
- Groundwork : autobiographical writings, 1979-2012
- Guts : the true stories behind Hatchet and the Brian books
- Hand to mouth : a chronicle of early failure
- Hannah and the mountain : notes toward a wilderness fatherhood
- Harold and me : my life, love, and hard times with Harold Robbins
- Helping me help myself : one skeptic, ten self-help gurus, and a year on the brink of the comfort zone
- Hemingway : the 1930s through the final years
- Hemingway at eighteen : the pivotal year that launched an American legend
- Hemingway in love : his own story : a memoir
- Hemingway's Havana : a reflection of the writer's life in Cuba
- Hemingway's Paris
- Hemingway's boat : everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961
- Henry James
- Henry James : the imagination of genius, a biography
- Here if you need me : a true story
- Here we are : my friendship with Philip Roth
- Hollywood : a third memoir
- House of happy endings : [a memoir]
- House of prayer no. 2 : a writer's journey home
- How I grew
- How do we know when it's God? : a spiritual memoir
- How reading changed my life
- Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing
- Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing
- Hunting with Hemingway : based on the stories of Leicester Hemingway
- I am Scout : a biography of Harper Lee
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I love a broad margin to my life
- I love you, Miss Huddleston : and other inappropriate longings of my Indiana childhood
- I remember Laura : Laura Ingalls Wilder
- I want to thank my brain for remembering me : a memoir
- I'll be damned if I'll die in Oakland : a sort of travel memoir
- I. Asimov : a memoir
- Iceberg Slim : portrait of a pimp
- In Pharaoh's army : memories of the lost war
- In search of Willie Morris : the mercurial life of a legendary writer and editor
- In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose
- In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose
- In the body of the world
- In the body of the world
- In the body of the world : [a memoir]
- In the shadow of memory
- In the shadow of memory
- In the shadow of the bridge : a memoir
- Indian Creek chronicles : a winter alone in the wilderness
- Inside a pearl : my years in Paris
- Isaac Asimov : a life of the grand master of science fiction
- Isaac B. Singer : a life
- It calls you back : an odyssey through love, addictions, revolution, and healing
- It's been a good life
- J. D. Salinger : a life
- J. D. Salinger : a life
- J.D. Salinger : a life
- J.D. Salinger : the escape artist
- Jack London : an American life
- Jack London, photographer
- Jack's book : an oral biography of Jack Kerouac
- James Baldwin : a biography
- Jonathan Franzen : the comedy of rage
- Just as I thought
- Kafka was the rage : a Greenwich Village memoir
- Kay Thompson : from Funny face to Eloise
- Kinfolks : falling off the family tree : the search for my Melungeon ancestors
- Kitchen confidential
- L. Frank Baum : creator of Oz
- La zone d'inconfort : une histoire personnelle
- Leon Uris : life of a best seller
- Lester Dent : the man, his craft, and his market
- Let's take the long way home : a memoir of friendship
- Letter to my daughter
- Letter to my daughter
- Libertarians on the prairie : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the making of the Little house books
- Life with father
- Life with sudden death : a tale of moral hazard and medical misadventure
- Listening for Madeleine : a portrait of Madeleine L'Engle in many voices
- Literary life : a second memoir
- Living the Braveheart life : finding the courage to follow your heart
- Logical family : a memoir
- Lois Lenski : storycatcher
- Lone cowboy : my life story
- Lost in the meritocracy : the undereducation of an overachiever
- Lost on Treasure Island : a memoir of longing, love, and lousy choices in New York City
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake
- Love and terror on the howling plains of nowhere : a memoir
- Lucking out : my life getting down and semi-dirty in seventies New York
- Mailer : a biography
- Manhood for amateurs : the pleasures and regrets of a husband, father and son
- Marriage and other acts of charity : [a memoir]
- Marriage and other acts of charity : a memoir
- Married at fourteen : a true story
- May Sarton : a biography
- May Sarton : among the usual days : a portrait : unpublished poems, letters, journals, and photographs
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou : adventurous spirit : from I know why the caged bird sings (1970) to Rainbow in the cloud, The wisdom and spirit of Maya Angelou (2014)
- Maya Angelou : the poetry of living
- Maya Angelou, and still I rise
- Me talk pretty one day
- Memoirs of a not altogether shy pornographer
- Mencken : the American iconoclast
- Mentor : a memoir
- Midstream
- Midstream : an unfinished memoir
- Missing men : a memoir
- Mockingbird : a portrait of Harper Lee : from Scout to Go set a watchman
- Mom & me & mom
- Mom & me & mom
- Morning, noon, and night
- Mother on fire : a true motherf%#$@ story about parenting!
- Mr. CSI : how a Vegas dreamer made a killing in Hollywood, one body at a time
- My Amish childhood
- My Venice and other essays
- My detachment : a memoir
- My dog Skip
- My journey with Maya
- My young life : a memoir
- Nabokov in America : on the road to Lolita
- Neal Cassady : the fast life of a beat hero
- Never a lovely so real : the life and work of Nelson Algren
- No more words : a journal of my mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Norman Mailer : a double life
- Not so good a gay man : a memoir
- Notes for a memoir : on Isaac Asimov, life, and writing
- O.J. in the morning, G&T at night : spirited dispatches on aging with Joie de Vivre
- Off to the side : a memoir
- On the ice : an intimate portrait of life in McMurdo Station, Antarctica
- On writing : a memoir of the craft
- On writing for children & other people
- One of these things first : a memoir
- P.S. : further thoughts from a lifetime of listening
- Palimpsest : a memoir
- Parisian lives : Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir
- Party of the century : the fabulous story of Truman Capote and his black and white ball
- Paul and Me : [fifty-three years of adventures and misadventures with my pal Paul Newman]
- Paul and Me : fifty-three years of adventures and misadventures with my pal Paul Newman
- Pearl Buck in China : journey to The good earth
- Pearl Buck in China : journey to the good earth
- Peninsula of lies : a true story of a mysterious birth and taboo love
- Perfectly miserable : guilt, God and real estate in a small town
- Point to point navigation : a memoir, 1964 to 2006
- Portrait of a novel : Henry James and the making of an American masterpiece
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Prime green : remembering the nineteen sixties
- Q's legacy : a delightful account of a lifelong love affair with books
- Ranch of dreams : the heartwarming story of America's most unusual animal sanctuary
- Rascal
- Raymond Carver : a writer's life
- Reading, writing, and leaving home : life on the page
- Recapitulations
- Recollections of Anais Nin : [by her contemporaries]
- Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder : Little house and beyond
- Reeling through life : how I learned to live, love and die at the movies
- Remember laughter : a life of James Thurber
- Report from the interior
- Report from the interior
- Riding the bus with my sister : a true life journey
- Road fever : a high-speed travelogue
- Robert A. Heinlein in dialogue with his century, volume 2 : the man who learned better, 1948-1988
- Robert A. Heinlein in dialogue with his century, volume I : learning curve, 1907-1948
- Robert Graves : the years with Laura, 1926-1940
- Sailor and fiddler : reflections of a 100-year-old author
- Salinger
- Searching for Mercy Street : my journey back to my mother, Anne Sexton
- Seducing the demon : writing for my life
- Seeing Mary plain : a life of Mary McCarthy
- Self-help Messiah : Dale Carnegie and success in modern America
- Self-help messiah : Dale Carnegie and success in modern America
- Sempre Susan : a memoir of Susan Sontag
- Senior moments : looking back, looking ahead
- Sex and the River Styx
- Shirley Jackson : a rather haunted life
- Shockaholic
- Shockaholic
- Singing my him song
- Sometimes the magic works : lessons from a writing life
- Sometimes the magic works : lessons from a writing life
- Sometimes you have to lie : the life and times of Louise Fitzhugh, renegade author of Harriet the Spy
- Songs of innocence and experience : essays in celebration of the ordinary
- Sontag
- Speak, memory : an autobiography revisited
- Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson
- Stories of my life
- Strictly right : William F. Buckley, Jr., and the American conservative movement
- Surprised by love : the life of Joy Davidman & her marriage to C.S. Lewis
- Susan Sontag : the making of an icon
- Tales from a free-range childhood
- The Best cat ever
- The Bradbury chronicles : the life of Ray Bradbury
- The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
- The John Fante reader
- The Liars' Club : a memoir
- The Pat Conroy cookbook : recipes and stories of my life
- The Princess diarist
- The Rolling stone book of the Beats : the Beat Generation and American culture
- The Tastemaker : Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America
- The art of vanishing : a memoir of wanderlust
- The autobiography of LeRoi Jones
- The awakener : a memoir of Kerouac and the fifties
- The best of us : a memoir
- The big sea : an autobiography
- The black veil : a memoir with digressions
- The book of separation : a memoir
- The brave escape of Edith Wharton : a biography
- The bridge across forever : a true love story
- The chicken chronicles : sitting with the angels who have returned with my memories : Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe : a memoir
- The chronology of water : a memoir
- The coldest winter : a stringer in liberated Europe
- The cooked seed
- The creative life : true tales of inspiration
- The days trilogy
- The discomfort zone : a personal history
- The discomfort zone : a personal history
- The draw : a memoir
- The dream : a memoir
- The drifting cowboy
- The faith of a writer : life, craft, art
- The fifth book of peace
- The goldfish went on vacation : a memoir of loss (and learning to tell the truth about it)
- The good times
- The heart of a woman
- The heart of a woman : a flowering career, a growing son--a powerful personal narrative
- The hue and cry at our house : a year remembered
- The inevitable : contemporary writers confront death
- The invention of solitude
- The journal keeper : a memoir
- The killer within : [in the company of monsters]
- The killer within : in the company of monsters
- The last holiday : a memoir
- The life and times of the thunderbolt kid : a memoir
- The life of Langston Hughes
- The long accomplishment : a memoir of hope and struggle in matrimony
- The long embrace : Raymond Chandler and the woman he loved
- The long, slow death of Jack Kerouac
- The making of a writer
- The mistress's daughter : [a memoir]
- The mockingbird next door : life with Harper Lee
- The mockingbird next door : life with Harper Lee
- The narrow door : a memoir of friendship
- The perfect hour : the romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, his first love
- The planter of modern life : Louis Bromfield and the seeds of a food revolution
- The princess diarist
- The princess diarist
- The princess diarist
- The ragged edge of silence : finding peace in a noisy world
- The royal nonesuch : in which the author, a failure at literature, fails likewise at pornography, founds a corporate branding consultancy and a new media empire, impersonates the Antichrist, plays nursemaid to a homeless street performer in a bear suit, battles oblivion and The Big She, and attempts to answer the one great question that troubles his generation: what will I do when I grow up?
- The same river twice : honoring the difficult : a meditation on life, spirit, art, and the making of the film, The color purple, ten years later
- The secret history of Vladimir Nabokov
- The secret life of The lonely doll : the search for Dare Wright
- The skeptic : a life of H.L. Mencken
- The snow leopard
- The story of Charlotte's web : E. B. White's eccentric life in nature and the birth of an American classic
- The talented Miss Highsmith : the secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith
- The thing about life is that one day you'll be dead
- The thirsty muse : alcohol and the American writer
- The time mom met Hitler, Frost came to dinner, and I heard the greatest story ever told : a memoir
- The traveling feast : on the road and at the table with my heroes
- The treehouse : eccentric wisdom from my father on how to live, love, and see
- The turquoise ledge
- The unknown Henry Miller : a seeker in Big Sur
- The view from the bridge : memories of Star Trek and a life in Hollywood
- The voice is all : the lonely victory of Jack Kerouac
- The woman said yes : encounters with life and death : memoirs
- The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
- The world of Laura Ingalls Wilder : the frontier landscapes that inspired the Little house books
- The world of Raymond Chandler : in his own words
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
- Theodor Seuss Geisel, volume 2 : the early works
- Thin is the new happy : [a memoir]
- Thin is the new happy : [a memoir]
- This is the story of a happy marriage
- This is the story of a happy marriage
- This is where we came in : essays
- This wild darkness : the story of my death
- Thornton Wilder : a life
- Three weeks with my brother
- Together : a memoir of a marriage and a medical mishap
- Townie : [a memoir]
- Townie : a memoir
- Townie : a memoir
- Travels with Charley in search of America
- Travels with Charley in search of America
- Truth be told : a memoir of success, suicide, and survival
- Two lives : Gertrude and Alice
- Two or three things I know for sure
- Updike
- Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) : [portrait of a marriage]
- Visions and revisions : coming of age in the age of AIDS
- Walker Percy, an American search
- We'll always have Paris
- We'll always have Paris : a mother/daughter memoir
- What if our world is their heaven : the final conversations with Philip K. Dick
- What it used to be like : a portrait of my marriage to Raymond Carver
- When all the world was young : a memoir
- When men were the only models we had : my teachers, Barzun, Fadiman, and Trilling
- When we were the Kennedys : a memoir from Mexico, Maine
- Who the hell is Pansy O'Hara? : the fascinating stories behind 50 of the world's best-loved books
- Wild girls : Paris, Sappho, and art : the lives and loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks
- Winter journal
- Wishful drinking
- Wolf : [the lives of Jack London]
- Wolf : the lives of Jack London
- Working : researching, interviewing, writing
- Writer, sailor, soldier, spy : Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures, 1935-1961
- Writer, sailor, soldier, spy : Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures, 1935-1961
- Writing places : the life journey of a writer and teacher
- You can't catch death : a daughter's memoir
- You don't have to say you love me : A Memoir
- You don't have to say you love me : A Memoir
- You don't have to say you love me : a memoir
- You don't have to say you love me : a memoir
- You'll be okay : my life with Jack Kerouac
- Zelda Fitzgerald : her voice in paradise
- Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald : an American woman's life
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