Subject search:Authors AND Biography

Instead of a Letter

by Diana Athill
Paperback, 2023
Tags
English literature, autobiography, NYRB Classics, {je}, non-NYRB
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Status
Available
Call number
828.91409

The Story of a Life

by Konstantin Paustovsky
Paperback, 2023
Tags
Russian literature, autobiography, NYRB Classics, {je}
Collection
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Series
Story of a Life (Omnibus)
Status
Available
Call number
891.7342

The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives

by Diane Johnson
Paperback, 2020
Tags
NYRB Classics, English literature, biography, {je}
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Status
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Call number
823.8

Family Lexicon

by Natalia Ginzburg
Paperback, 2017
Tags
NYRB Classics, Italian literature, autobiography, {je}
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Status
Available
Call number
853.912

A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising

by Miron Bialoszewski
Paperback, 2014
Tags
NYRB Classics, World War II, history, Poland, Holocaust, {je}, non-NYRB
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Status
Available
Call number
943.8

Down Second Avenue

by Es'kia Mphahlele
Paperback, 2013
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 3, African literature, South African literature, autobiography, apartheid
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Status
Available
Call number
968.050924

Voltaire in Love

by Nancy Mitford
Paperback, 2012
Tags
France, biography, English literature, NYRB Classics
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Status
Available
Call number
813

Praeterita

by John Ruskin
Paperback, 2012
Tags
autobiography, English literature, Britain
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Status
Available
Call number
828.809

The Snows of Yesteryear

by Gregor von Rezzori
Paperback, 2008
Tags
German literature, fiction, autobiography, NYRB Classics, Austrian literature
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Status
Available
Call number
833.912

Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps

by Emmett Grogan
Paperback, 2008
Tags
autobiography, NYRB Classics, radicalism, beat
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Status
Available
Call number
973.91092

Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth

by Richard Wright
Paperback, 2007
Tags
American literature, fiction, African-American, racism, social history, history, American South, autobiography
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Memoirs of Montparnasse

by John Glassco
Paperback, 2007
Tags
NYRB Classics, Canadian literature, fiction, memoir, Paris, {e2}
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Status
Available
Call number
8185409

Pages from the Goncourt Journals

by Edmond de Goncourt
Paperback, 2007
Tags
French literature, journal, Paris, social history, history, NYRB Classics
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Available
Call number
848.803

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel
Paperback, 2007
Tags
graphic novel, coming of age, memoir, American literature, fiction, humor, LGBT
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Status
Available
Call number
741.5973

The Gordon File: A Screenwriter Recalls Twenty Years of FBI Surveillance

by Bernard Gordon
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
screenwriting, film, {je}
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Available
Call number
791.43

The Cruise of the Snark

by Jack London
Paperback, 2004
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 3, American literature, fiction, adventure, seafaring, Oceania
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Status
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Call number
818.5203

Prisoner of Love

by Jean Genet
Paperback, 2003
Tags
NYRB Classics, French literature, autobiography, LGBT
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Status
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Call number
848.91209

Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship

by Gershom Gerhard Scholem
Paperback, 2003
Tags
NYRB Classics, philosophy, Judaism, autobiography, critical theory
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Call number
838.91209

The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography

by A. J. A. Symons
Paperback, 2001
Tags
NYRB Classics, English literature, fiction, biography, decadence, LGBT
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Call number
823.8

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

by Elspeth Huxley
Paperback, 2000
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, English literature, autobiography, Africa, East Africa
Collection
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Series
Flame Trees of Thika (1)
Status
Available
Call number
828.91209

My Father and Myself

by J. R. Ackerley
Paperback, 1999
Tags
NYRB Classics, English literature, fiction, biography, LGBT
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Available
Call number
306.7662092

My Dog Tulip

by J. R. Ackerley
Paperback, 1999
Tags
NYRB Classics, English literature, fiction, biography, animal story, dog, {e2}
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Status
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Call number
828.91209

Introducing Walter Benjamin

by Howard Caygill
Paperback, 1998
Tags
philosophy, German philosophy, cultural studies, biography, graphic novel
Collection
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Series
Introducing...
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Available
Call number
193

In the South Seas

by Robert Louis Stevenson
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, Oceania, travel writing
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
919.604

Cider with Rosie

by Laurie Lee
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, English literature, fiction, autobiography, rural life
Collection
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Series
Laurie Lee's Autobiographies (1)
Status
Available
Call number
942.417083092

- Lewis Carroll in Wonderland: The Life and Times of Alice and Her Creator

by Stephanie Lovett Stoffel
Paperback, 1997
Tags
Gallimard, English literature, biography
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
828.809

Travels with Charley in Search of America

by John Steinbeck
Paperback, 1997
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, American culture, travel writing, memoir
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
818.5203

- Selected Letters

by D. H. Lawrence
Paperback, 1996
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin 20th-century Classics, English literature, letters, autobiography
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

Great Books of the Western World 41: Boswell

by James Boswell
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
Britannica, Great Books, English literature, fiction, biography
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
828.609

The Iliad of Homer

by Homer
Paperback, 1996
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, Greek literature, epic, poetry, mythology
Collection
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Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

- Moments of Reprieve: A Memoir of Auschwitz

by Primo Levi
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin 20th-century Classics, Holocaust, Italian literature, short stories, autobiography
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
853.914

Palimpsest: A Memoir

by Gore Vidal
Hardcover, 1995
Tags
American literature, autobiography, LGBT
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
818.5409

Dared And Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning

by Julia Markus
Hardcover, 1995
Tags
English literature, fiction, biography, poetry
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
821.809

Italian Hours

by Henry James
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, Italy, essays, travel writing, American literature
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
910

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

by Simone de Beauvoir
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, French literature, memoir, feminism, autobiography
Collection
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Series
Simone de Beauvoir - Autobiography (1)
Status
Available
Call number
920

A Son of the Middle Border

by Hamlin Garland
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, American literature, fiction, autobiography, frontier & pioneer
Collection
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Series
Middle Border (2)
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Flight to Arras

by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, military history, history, World War II, aviation, memoir
Collection
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Series
Airman's Odyssey (3), サン=テグジュペリ・コレクション (4)
Status
Available
Call number
940.54

Wind, Sand and Stars

by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, French literature, fiction, memoir, adventure, aviation
Collection
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Series
Airman's Odyssey (2)
Status
Available
Call number
848.91209

All Said and Done

by Simone de Beauvoir
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, French literature, autobiography
Collection
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Series
Simone de Beauvoir - Autobiography (5)
Status
Available
Call number
848.9

- In My Father's Court

by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Paperback, 1994
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin 20th-century Classics, American literature, fiction
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
892.49303

Running from Safety: And Other Adventures of the Spirit

by Richard Bach
Hardcover, 1994
Tags
autobiography, philosophy, spirituality
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

by John Henry Newman
Paperback, 1994
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, Christianity, Catholicism, Anglicanism, theology, autobiography, apologetics
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
282.092

Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

by Malcolm Cowley
Paperback, 1994
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, American literature, fiction, literary criticism, American culture, Paris, modernism
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
810.90052

Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925

by Vera Brittain
Paperback, 1994
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, English literature, autobiography, medicine, World War I, Britain, pacifism
Collection
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Series
Vera Brittain's Testament (1)
Status
Available
Call number
828.91209

Out of Africa

by Isak Dinesen
Paperback, 1994
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, Africa, memoir, Danish literature, fiction, East Africa
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
967.62

- Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement

by Graham Greene
Paperback, 1993
Tags
English literature, fiction, Penguin Classics, Penguin 20th-century Classics, Latin America, Central America, biography
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
972.87

New York Days

by Willie Morris
Hardcover, 1993
Tags
American literature, autobiography, journalism
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Shorter Pepys

by Samuel Pepys
Paperback, 1993
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, English literature, Britain, journal, Restoration, plague, Black Death, history
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
941.06

A Sort of Life

by Graham Greene
Paperback, 1993
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, English literature, autobiography
Collection
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Series
Greene Autobiography (1)
Status
Available
Call number
828.9

Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autobiography

by Aleister Crowley
Paperback, 1971
Tags
English literature, decadence, occult, autobiography
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
133.092
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