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READING MY FATHER

A Memoir

By Alexandra Styron (Author)

Pub Date: Apr 19, 2011

William Styron's daughter recalls her love-hate relationship with the literary lion.
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EVERY DAY BY THE SUN

A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi

By Dean Faulkner Wells (Author)

Pub Date: Mar 22, 2011

Girlhood memories from Wells, William Faulkner's niece.
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SALINGER

A Life

By Kenneth Slawenski (Author)

Pub Date: Jan 25, 2011

Impressively researched, sympathetic critical biography of one of the 20th century's most perplexing fiction authors.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

The Life of a Beloved Author and Storyteller

By Susan Cheever (Author)

Pub Date: Nov 2, 2010

Contextual study of Louisa May Alcott's life (1832–1888) and work, from her childhood among such writers as Emerson, Fuller and Hawthorne,to the astounding literary career that afforded her a feminist independence of spirit even as she remained a caregiver to her family.
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HOW TO LIVE

A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

By Sarah Bakewell (Author)

Pub Date: Oct 19, 2010

Former Wellcome Library curator Bakewell (Creative Writing/City Univ. London; The English Dane: A Life of Jorgen Jorgenson, 2005, etc.) sketches the life of essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533–1592) and traces his evolving reputation.
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STORYTELLER

The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl

By Donald Sturrock (Author)

Pub Date: Sep 14, 2010

Comprehensive, authoritative biography of Roald Dahl (1916–1990).
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