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By: Victor Villasenor
ISBN: 9780385315692
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1997
UK Publication Date: 10th February 1997
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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A work hailed by the "Los Angeles Times" as "hypnotic storytelling", "Wild Steps of Heaven" provides a powerful, moving portrait of Villasenor's family who, in their courage and love of life, represent the whole, passionate history of Mexico.
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By: Jon Stallworthy
ISBN: 9781845952044
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Of all the poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen most fires the imagination today this is the comprehensive literary biography of the greatest WW1 poet
Wilfred Owen tragically died in battle just a few days before the Armistice.
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By: Andrew Lycett
ISBN: 9780099557340
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Tells the definitive biography of Wilkie Collins: the Victorian novelist, playwright, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White, who lived a life of sensation.
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By: Paul Mariani
ISBN: 9781595347640
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S.
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The definitive biography of William Carlos Williams, one of the twentieth century's foremost poets
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By: Douglas J. King
ISBN: 9798765129630
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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By: Dr. Bola Dauda
ISBN: 9781501375750
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Dr. Bola Dauda
ISBN: 9781501375767
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: John Fowles
ISBN: 9780099272724
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1999
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Here, for the first time, is a riveting collection of Fowles's fugitive and intensely personal writings composed sinced 1963, ranging from essays and literary criticism to commentaries, autobiographical statements, memoirs and musings.
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By: Michael Robertson
ISBN: 9780691146317
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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A work on the Whitman disciples - the fascinating, eclectic group of nineteenth-century men and women who regarded Walt Whitman not simply as a poet but as a religious prophet. It presents a colorful portrait of an era of intense religious, political, and sexual passions, focusing on why Whitman's work continues to appeal to so many.
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By: Sir Laurens Van Der Post
ISBN: 9780099429852
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Yet Being Someone Other is the most revealing book that Laurens van der Post wrote about his extraordinary and eventful life, and the most far-reaching; it is a distillation of the experiences that have moved him at the deepest level of the imagination and made him the exceptional person and writer he was.
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By: Anthony Burgess
ISBN: 9780099437062
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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After returning from a trip to Brunei, Anthony Burgess, initially believing he has only a year to live, begins to write - novels, film scripts, television series, articles.
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By: Robert Crawford
ISBN: 9780099554950
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Eliot wanted no biography written, but this book reveals him in all his vulnerable complexity as student and lover, stink-bomber, banker and philosopher, but most of all as an epoch-shaping poet struggling to make art among personal disasters.
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By: Deborah G. Plant
ISBN: 9780275987510
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Zora Neale Hurston is regarded as an integral part of the Harlem Renaissance and an important and influential African American writer. This biography takes into account the whole woman, the writer, the philosopher, and the spiritual soul and examines each as it is reflected in her career, fiction and nonfiction publications, and her death.
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By: Stephanie Li
ISBN: 9798216195191
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this biography, chronological chapters follow Zora Neale Hurston's family, upbringing, education, influences, and major works, placing these experiences within the context of American history.
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By: Nathan Waddell
ISBN: 9780861549764
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2025
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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A pioneering biography of George Orwell told through moments of everyday life.
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By: Megan Marshall
ISBN: 9780618684182
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Hannah Kent
ISBN: 9781761268434
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
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By: Daniel Handler
ISBN: 9781836430339
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
UK Publication Date: 25th September 2025
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The tender memoir of a writing life from the bestselling author of A Series of Unfortunate Events.
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By: Jake Poller
ISBN: 9781836390091
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2025
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A holistic approach to the monumental modernist writer Christopher Isherwood.
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By: Maurice Betz
ISBN: 9781805330288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 24th April 2025
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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By: David Ellis
ISBN: 9781836390138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2025
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A concise yet comprehensive account of D. H. Lawrence's stormy life and writing career.
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By: Levi Lionel Leland
ISBN: 9781507224137
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
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A stunning, curated celebration of the master of the macabre! Featuring a die-cut cover, foil accents, and original illustrations, this perfectly packaged gift book dives into the life and works of the famed horror writer and adds a sophisticated touch to desks and bookshelves.
(Hardback)
By: Robert Lethbridge
ISBN: 9781836390176
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2025
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A new perspective on one of the world's greatest writers, Emile Zola.
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By: Martin Amis
ISBN: 9781529952681
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 17th April 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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