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This major interpretation of the life and art of Robert Lowell exposes the full relationship between the poetry and the personal and national experience to which it is so remarkably connected. Steven Axelrod proposes that the key to our understanding of Lowell's poetic achievement lies precisely in this interpenetration of his life and his art. Or

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Philip Roth - one of the most renowned writers of his generation. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award, to his Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral, to his inventive works such as Exit Ghost and Nemesis, Roth has produced literature of the past hundred years. This title tells his story.

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Valerie Hemingway played an intimate, indispensable role in the lives of two generations of Hemingway's. This memoir is the account of what she enjoyed, and what she endured, during her astonishing years of living as a Hemingway.

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A paperback reissue of a critically acclaimed biography which shows Shakespeare as a man among men and a writer among writers. Duncan-Jones takes us through the complexities of life in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean England in a compelling and well-told story.

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What qualities helped Primo Levi survive the demented laboratory of Auschwitz What does Milan Kundera make of being denounced as a subversive writer in communist Czechoslovakia What does Edna O'Brien think drove generations of Irish writers into exile This book explores the importance of region, politics and history in their work.

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This biography is an authoritative account of the novelist, journalist, nationalist, feminist and larrikin Stella Miles Franklin, author of My Brilliant Career and a great literary figure. This account follows her story from her beginnings in the Australian bush, through her publishing success and time spent in Chicago, USA.

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Known worldwide for his horror creations in best-selling books and popular film adaptations, Stephen King spent years in obscurity trying to find his voice and his audience. For much of his career he chose to remain in the small-town Maine of his youth. This title traces his evolution from would-be "Pulp" magazine writer to master of his craft.

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The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time, written with complete access to the archives stored in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre.

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David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. He tries to understand what it means to desire so desperately, as his mother did to the end of her life, to try almost anything in order to go on living and, when the time comes, to die with dignity.

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The poet Sylvia Townsend Warner rose to sudden fame with the publication of her classic feminist novel Lolly Willowes in 1926, but never became a conventional member of London literary life, pursuing instead a long writing career in her own individualistic manner. This book deals with her life and work.

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Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria's favourite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. This biography shows him as a Romantic as well as a Victorian, exploring both the poems and Tennyson's attempts at play writing, as well as the pressures of his age and the personal relationships that made the man.

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Originally published by Fourth Estate in 1996, when it was short-listed for the Whitbread Prize.

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In this delightful sequel to Peeling the Onion, Gnter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up, of their father, who was always at work on a new book, always at the margins of their lives.

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The life of William Morris (1834-1896) is revealed in significant new detail by his complete surviving correspondence, brought together here for the first time and including many previously unpublished letters. This collection not only bears witness to Morris's day-to-day activities and friendships, but also reflects his keen response to landscape

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