On Steig Larsson
New York: Knopf, 2010. Hardcover. 8vo., 85 pp. Decorated endpapers.
Literary Biography
Philip Roth In Memory
New York: The Library of America, 2019. Hardcover. Remarks made the Philip Roth memorial service at the New York Public Library on September 25 , 2018 . Eleven contributors: Joel Conarroe, Claudia Roth Pierpont, Norman Manea, Bernard Avishai, Nicole Krauss, Janis Bellow, Judith Thurman, Julia Golier, Edna O'Brien, Andrew Wylie.....
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
New York: Dutton, 1978. Hardcover. 8vo., 519 pp. Cover illustration by David Levine. Illustrated with a section of black and white plates.. National Book Award-winning biography of Perkins, the editor who helped guide F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe, among many others. Berg took the literary world by.....
Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence
New York: Knopf, 1952. Hardcover. 8vo., 385 pp. First American edition. xviii, 385, xiii pp.
A World Unsuspected: Portraits of a Southern Childhood
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Hardcover. 8vo., 237 pp. Illustrated. The Lyndhurst Series on the South. An important anthology of Southern experience with self-portraits of their youth by Sheila Bosworth, Robb Forman Dew, Barry Hannah, Josephine Humphreys, James Alan McPherson, Bobbie Ann Mason, T.R. Pearson, Padgett Powell.....
My Friend Henry Miller
New York: John Day, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. Preface by Henry Miller. Biography of Miller penned by his closest friend.
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W. H. Auden Lectures on Shakespeare [W.H. Auden: Critical Editions]
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Hardcover. 8vo. 398 pp. The acclaimed lectures from Auden's 1946-1947 course on Shakespeare at New York City's New School for Social Research. Lecture notes from Alan Ansen, later Auden's secretary and friend.
The Far Side of Paradise: A Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. Hardcover. 8vo., 362 pp. Jacket photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Black and white photos, Index. First Edition/First Printing with 1951 date on copyright page and no additional printings listed there. Light green boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. photographs and index. Well regarded Fitzgerald.....
Bret Harte: Prince and Pauper
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. Hardcover. 8vo. 326 pp. plus four [4] double-sided plates. Biography of the legendary chronicler of the California Gold Rush and America's first celebrity author.
Walt Whitman Among the French: Poet and Myth
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. Hardcover. 8vo., 296 pp. Footnotes, two appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Looks at the life and work of Walt Whitman in the context of French culture.
The Personal House: Homes of Artists and Writers
New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1961. Hardcover. Elephant Folio. 80 pp. Illustrated with black and white and color photos throughout. Two color plates tipped in.
The Smart Set: A History and Anthology with an Introductory Reminiscence by S.N. Behrman.
New York: Dial, 1966. Hardcover. 4to., 262 pp. Notes, index, and bibliography. Compiled in 1966 but based on articles drawn originally from the 1900-1930 period, with stories, plays, and verse by James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Robinson Jeffers.....
Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon
New York: Norton, 2000. Hardcover. 8vo. 370 pp. Index. This first biography of Susan Sontag [1933-2004].
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life
New York: Scribner's, 2009. Hardcover. Thick 8vo., Index, Notes. Bio of Carver, the most important American short-story writer of the late 20th century, written two decades after his death.
H.L. Mencken: A Portrait from Memory
New York: Perpetua/Barnes, 1961. Softcover. 8vo., 240 pp. Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, and satirist. He was a noted critic of American culture and political institutions and wrote extensively for the Baltimore Sun, the Evening Sun, and the Baltimore American, as well as for the Smart Set and the.....
The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the Writers and Their Works from Antiquity to the Present
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. Softcover. Thick 8vo. 786 pp. Provides overviews of gay and lesbian literature from an array of historical periods; international coverage, including in-depth critical essays on gay and lesbian authors in world literature from an international selection of scholars; and thorough treatment of topics.....
A History of English in It's Own Words
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. Hardcover. 8vo., 275 pp. Index. Shows how the English language developed by explaining the etymologies of more than 750 words in order of their entrance into the language.
His Brother's Keeper: The Life and Murder of Tennessee Williams
Collinsville: Dakin's Corner Press, 1983. Hardcover. 8vo. Signed and dated by the author on the front endpaper. Fine in fine dust jacket.
J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle Earth: A Biography
Philadelphia: Running Pres, 1976. Softcover. 12mo. 165 pp. Unapproved biography by the family published by a small American press to fill the need to know more.
Sean O'Casey and His World
London: Thanks and Hudson, 1976. Hardcover. 4to. 128 pp. Illustrations. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong
New York: Penguin Press, 2015. Hardcover. 8vo., 192 pp. A cultural biography of Robert Frost's beloved poem.
Salinger: The Official Book of the Acclaimed Documentary Film
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. 698 pp. Index.
Ultimately Fiction: Design in Modern American Literary Biography
West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1981. Hardcover. 240 p. With Notes, Bibliography and Index.
Anne Sexton: A Biography
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. Hardcover. 8vo., 488 pp., Illustrations, Notes, Bibliographical references and Index.
Constant Reader
New York: Viking, 1970. Hardcover. Parker's New Yorker Magazine pieces written between 1927-1933.