Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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- Capote's women, a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era, Laurence Leamer
- Dashiell Hammett, a daughter remembers, Jo Hammett ; edited by Richard Layman, with Julie M. Rivett
- Marriage and other acts of charity, Kate Braestrup
- Senior moments, looking back, looking ahead, Willard Spiegelman
- The lost prince, a search for Pat Conroy, Michael Mewshaw
- H.L. Mencken, a documentary volume, edited by Richard J. Schrader
- Norman Mailer, a double life, J. Michael Lennon
- A ticket to the circus, a memoir, Norris Church Mailer
- Du Bose Heyward, the man who wrote Porgy, by Frank Durham
- Hemingway in love, his own story : a memoir, by A.E. Hotchner
- Wandering through life, a memoir, Donna Leon
- Everybody into the pool, true tales, Beth Lisick
- Restless youth, 1922-1929, Julian Green ; translated and with an introduction by Euan Cameron
- Deliberate cruelty, Truman Capote, the millionaire's wife, and the murder of the century, Roseanne Montillo
- As I knew him, my dad, Rod Serling, Anne Serling
- Edith Wharton, Lee Hermione
- Screening room, family pictures, Alan Lightman
- House of prayer no. 2, a writer's journey home, Mark Richard
- Logical family, a memoir, Armistead Maupin
- Thornton Wilder, a life, Penelope Niven ; with a foreword by Edward Albee
- Shirley Jackson, a rather haunted life, Ruth Franklin
- Robert A. Heinlein, in dialogue with his century, William H. Patterson, Jr
- Maya Angelou, a glorious celebration, Marcia Ann Gillespie, Rosa Johnson Butler, and Richard A. Long ; foreword by Oprah Winfrey
- Lord of a visible world, an autobiography in letters, H.P. Lovecraft ; edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz
- Jack Kerouac, king of the Beats, a portrait, Barry Miles
- Goodbye, darkness, a memoir of the Pacific war, William Manchester
- Bobbed hair and bathtub gin, writers running wild in the Twenties, by Marion Meade
- The lives of Norman Mailer, a biography, by Carl Rollyson
- My Venice and other essays, Donna Leon
- DuBose Heyward, a Charleston gentleman and the world of Porgy and Bess, James M. Hutchisson
- Intimate lies, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham : her son's story, Robert Westbrook
- Sailor and fiddler, reflections of a 100-year-old author, Herman Wouk
- Philip Roth, the biography, Blake Bailey
- Edgar Lee Masters, a biography, Herbert K. Russell
- Dawn, a Charleston legend, by Dawn Langley Simmons
- Fortune and misery, Sallie Rhett Roman of New Orleans : a biographical portrait and selected fiction, 1891-1920, [compiled by] Nancy Dixon
- One writer's beginnings, Eudora Welty ; [introduction by Natasha Trethewey]
- American rhapsody, writers, musicians, movie stars, and one great building, Claudia Roth Pierpont
- The faith of a writer, life, craft, art, Joyce Carol Oates
- J.D. Salinger, the escape artist, Thomas Beller
- Nanaville, adventures in grandparenting, Anna Quindlen
- O.J. in the morning, G&T at night, spirited dispatches on aging with joie de vivre, A.E. Hotchner
- Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison!, it seemed like a good idea at the time, Harry Harrison
- Episodes, Pierre Delattre
- The creative life, true tales of inspiration, Julia Cameron
- On writing, a memoir of the craft, by Stephen King
- A house of my own, stories from my life, Sandra Cisneros
- All in good time, a memoir, Jonathan Schwartz
- Gone to the woods, surviving a lost childhood, Gary Paulsen ; [pictures, Anna and Varvara Kendel]
- Prairie fires, the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Caroline Fraser
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