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50 Essential Literary Biographies

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Jane Austen: A Life (CLAIRE TOMALIN)
Jane Austen: A Life (CLAIRE TOMALIN)
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How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (Sarah Bakewell)
How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (Sarah Bakewell)
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Sylvia Plath: A Biography
Sylvia Plath: A Biography
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The Life of Langston Hughes (Arnold Rampersad)
The Life of Langston Hughes (Arnold Rampersad)
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Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time (Joseph Frank)
Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time (Joseph Frank)
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Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (Brad Gooch)
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (Brad Gooch)
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Literchoor Is My Beat: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions (Ian S. Macniven)
Literchoor Is My Beat: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions (Ian S. Macniven)
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Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector (Benjamin Moser)
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector (Benjamin Moser)
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Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson (Adam Sisman)
Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson (Adam Sisman)
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Virginia Woolf (Hermione Lee)
Virginia Woolf (Hermione Lee)
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JAMES JOYCE by Richard Ellmann
JAMES JOYCE by Richard Ellmann
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Marcel Proust: A Biography (George D. Painter)
Marcel Proust: A Biography (George D. Painter)
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Simone De Beauvoir: A Biography (Deirdre Bair)
Simone De Beauvoir: A Biography (Deirdre Bair)
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Samuel Beckett (Deirdre Bair)
Samuel Beckett (Deirdre Bair)
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Elizabeth Gaskell (Jenny Uglow)
Elizabeth Gaskell (Jenny Uglow)
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George Eliot (Jenny Uglow)
George Eliot (Jenny Uglow)
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Wrapped in Rainbows (Valerie Boyd)
Wrapped in Rainbows (Valerie Boyd)
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Borges: A Life
Borges: A Life
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The Bronte Myth (Lucasta Miller)
The Bronte Myth (Lucasta Miller)
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Byron: Life and Legend (Fiona MacCarthy)
Byron: Life and Legend (Fiona MacCarthy)
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Rebecca West (Victoria Glendinning)
Rebecca West (Victoria Glendinning)
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Charles Dickens: A Life (Claire Tomalin)
Charles Dickens: A Life (Claire Tomalin)
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Edith Wharton: A Life (Hermione Lee)
Edith Wharton: A Life (Hermione Lee)
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Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man (Barbara Reynolds)
Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man (Barbara Reynolds)
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Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy (Carolyn Burke)
Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy (Carolyn Burke)
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Frantz Fanon: A Biography (David Macey)
Frantz Fanon: A Biography (David Macey)
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Hart Crane: A Life (Clive Fisher)
Hart Crane: A Life (Clive Fisher)
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Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (Lyndall Gordon)
Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (Lyndall Gordon)
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Richard Wright: The Life and Times (Hazel Rowley)
Richard Wright: The Life and Times (Hazel Rowley)
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Anne Sexton: A Biography (Diane Wood Middlebrook)
Anne Sexton: A Biography (Diane Wood Middlebrook)
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Stephen Greenblatt)
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Stephen Greenblatt)
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Mary Shelley (Miranda Seymour)
Mary Shelley (Miranda Seymour)
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I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey Into the Mind of Philip K. Dick (Emmanuel Carrere)
I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey Into the Mind of Philip K. Dick (Emmanuel Carrere)
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Kafka: The Decisive Years (Reiner Stach)
Kafka: The Decisive Years (Reiner Stach)
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James Baldwin (David Leeming)
James Baldwin (David Leeming)
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Walt Whitman: A Life (Justin Kaplan)
Walt Whitman: A Life (Justin Kaplan)
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Mark Twain: A Life (Ron Powers)
Mark Twain: A Life (Ron Powers)
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Herman Melville (Hershel Parker)
Herman Melville (Hershel Parker)
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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (Alfred Habegger)
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (Alfred Habegger)
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