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American Autobiography After 9/11

By Megan Brown

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Hardcover:

9780299310301 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, January 10, 2017, cover price $64.95

London for Foodies, Gourmets & Gluttons

Eight American authors draw on their own works to describe the creative process involved in writing a memoir

By Graeme Chesters

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Hardcover:

9781909282766 | Survival Books, May 7, 2015, cover price $19.95

Paperback:

9780395731017, titled "Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir" | Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 1995, cover price $10.95 | also contains Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir | About this edition: Eight American authors draw on their own works to describe the creative process involved in writing a memoir

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By Amy Scholder (editor)

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9781558618664 | Feminist Pr, October 7, 2014, cover price $16.95

Dying in Character Memoirs on the End of Life

Product Description: In the past twenty years, an increasing number of authors have written memoirs focusing on the last stage of their lives: Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, for example, in The Wheel of Life, Harold Brodkey in This Wild Darkness, Edward Said in Out of Place, and Tony Judt in The Memory Chalet...read more

By Jeffrey Berman

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9781558499645, titled "Dying in Character: Memoirs on the End of Life" | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, February 28, 2013, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: In the past twenty years, an increasing number of authors have written memoirs focusing on the last stage of their lives: Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, for example, in The Wheel of Life, Harold Brodkey in This Wild Darkness, Edward Said in Out of Place, and Tony Judt in The Memory Chalet.

Dying in Character Memoirs on the End of Life: Memoirs on the End of Life

Product Description: In the past twenty years, an increasing number of authors have written memoirs focusing on the last stage of their lives: Elizabeth KÃ¼bler-Ross, for example, in The Wheel of Life, Harold Brodkey in This Wild Darkness, Edward Said in Out of Place, and Tony Judt in The Memory Chalet...read more

By Jeffrey Berman

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9781558499652 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, February 28, 2013, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In the past twenty years, an increasing number of authors have written memoirs focusing on the last stage of their lives: Elizabeth KÃ¼bler-Ross, for example, in The Wheel of Life, Harold Brodkey in This Wild Darkness, Edward Said in Out of Place, and Tony Judt in The Memory Chalet.

Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship

By Michael Anesko

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9780804769327 | Stanford Univ Pr, January 11, 2012, cover price $35.00

Building Their Own Waldos: Emerson's First Biographers and the Politics of Life-writing in the Gilded Age

Product Description: By the end of the nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson was well on his way to becoming the “Wisest American” and the “Sage of Concord,” a literary celebrity and a national icon. With that fame came what Robert Habich describes as a blandly sanctified version of Emerson held widely by the reading public...read more

By Robert D. Habich

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9781587299629 | Univ of Iowa Pr, March 15, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: By the end of the nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson was well on his way to becoming the “Wisest American” and the “Sage of Concord,” a literary celebrity and a national icon.

Transatlantic Manners: Social Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature

By Christopher Mulvey

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Hardcover:

9780521303668 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $99.99

Paperback:

9780521055611 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 21, 2008), cover price $44.99

Writing the Lost Generation: Expatriate Autobiography and American Modernism

By Craig Monk

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9781587296895 | 1 edition (Univ of Iowa Pr, September 1, 2008), cover price $34.95

Mediating American Autobiography: Photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman

'Examines works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman to explore how the emergence of photography in the mid-nineteenth century transformed their ideas, how photography mediated their conceptions of self-representation, and how their appropriation of photographic thinking created a new kind of autobiography'--Provided by publisher.

By Sean Ross Meehan

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9780826217929 | Univ of Missouri Pr, May 1, 2008, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: 'Examines works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman to explore how the emergence of photography in the mid-nineteenth century transformed their ideas, how photography mediated their conceptions of self-representation, and how their appropriation of photographic thinking created a new kind of autobiography'--Provided by publisher.

The Ethics of Working Class Autobiography: Representation of Family by Four American Authors

'Focusing on the ethics of autobiography, this volume analyzes the works of four writers who spent much of their youth in working-class circumstances yet became highly educated intellectual professionals. It examines the way in which they confront their working-class past. In addition to representing different times, each work recounts the author's struggle with a particular societal element'--Provided by publisher.

By Elizabeth Bidinger

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9780786425761 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, July 30, 2006, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: 'Focusing on the ethics of autobiography, this volume analyzes the works of four writers who spent much of their youth in working-class circumstances yet became highly educated intellectual professionals.

The True Story of Alice B. Toklas: A Study of Three Autobiographies

By Anna Linzie

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9780877459859 | Univ of Iowa Pr, June 1, 2006, cover price $37.50

Lives Out of Letters: Essays on American Literary Biography and Documentation in Honor of Robert N. Hudspeth

Though the efficacy of literary biography has been widely contested by academic theorists, attention to the lives of authors remains an enduring fact of our literary history. The essays in this collection address the relationships among American literary biography, documentation, and interpretation from a practitionerOs perspective.

By Robert D. Habich (editor) and Robert N. Hudspeth (editor)

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9780838640050 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, June 30, 2004, cover price $52.50

9781611472691 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Though the efficacy of literary biography has been widely contested by academic theorists, attention to the lives of authors remains an enduring fact of our literary history.

Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

A critical overview of the work features such contributors as Sidonie Ann Smith, Sondra O'Neale, Pierre A. Walker, and George E. Kent.

By Harold Bloom (editor)

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9780791075623 | Chelsea House Pub, November 1, 2003, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A critical overview of the work features such contributors as Sidonie Ann Smith, Sondra O'Neale, Pierre A.

9780791047736 | Chelsea House Pub, March 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Collects critical essays on the author's autobiographical work

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9780791041291 | Chelsea House Pub, April 1, 1998, cover price $4.95

9780791036914 | Chelsea House Pub, April 1, 1996, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Includes a brief biography of Maya Angelou, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.

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9780791036662 | Chelsea House Pub, March 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Includes a brief biography of Maya Angelou, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.

Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger): A Casebook

This casebook gathers together the most important critical responses to Richard Wright's autobiography. It includes a 1945 interview with Richard Wright, contemporary reviews of Black Boy written by W.E.B. Du Bois, Lionel Trilling, Mary McCarthy, and Ralph Ellison, and eight critical essays. These essays address a range of topics including the circumstances of the book's original publication in 1945; the relationship between the novel and Wright's actual biography; the African-American autobiographical tradition; the influences of various writers and literary movements on Black Boy; and the impact of African-American vernacular and oral performance on Wright's autobiography. (view table of contents)

By William L. Andrews (editor) and Douglas Edward Taylor (editor)

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9780195157710 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 23, 2003, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: This casebook gathers together the most important critical responses to Richard Wright's autobiography.

Paperback:

9780195157727 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 12, 2003, cover price $51.00

Jack Kerouac's Nine Lives: Three Essays

Product Description: Essays by Kerouac scholar Jim Jones on a host of different issues about Kerouac, as well as critical works on his own writing. The title, drawn from the largest essay, delves into the numerous biographies on Kerouac, dispelling many of the myths and pseudo-legends about Kerouac's life...read more

By James T. Jones

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9781885089083 | Cityful Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Essays by Kerouac scholar Jim Jones on a host of different issues about Kerouac, as well as critical works on his own writing.

Refiguring the Map of Sorrow: Nature Writing and Autobiography

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By Mark Christopher Allister

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Hardcover:

9780813920641 | Univ of Virginia Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $60.00

Paperback:

9780813920658 | Univ of Virginia Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $22.50

A Comprehensive Companion to Hemingway's a Moveable Feast: Annotation to Interpretation

Product Description: This work is a comprehensive guide to Hemingway's posthumous memoir. It includes maps, pictures of the main characters, biographies of all the known and little-known people mentioned by Hemingway, and a thorough bibliography. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gerry Brenner

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9780773476103 | Edwin Mellen Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $159.95 | About this edition: This work is a comprehensive guide to Hemingway's posthumous memoir.

9780773476202 | Edwin Mellen Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $129.95 | About this edition: This work is a comprehensive guide to Hemingway's posthumous memoir.

Touching the World: Reference in Autobiography

By Paul John Eakin

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Hardcover:

9780691068206 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $55.00

Miscellaneous:

9781400820641 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 15, 2001, cover price $55.00

Mapping the Private Geography: Autobiography, Identity, and America

Product Description: This study of autobiographical writing and its reflection of personal and national identity analyzes the different ways in which these authors balance individual American identity with collective identities and reinvent their familial, cultural, and national engenderings...read more

By Gerri Reaves

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9780786408771 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, January 1, 2000, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This study of autobiographical writing and its reflection of personal and national identity analyzes the different ways in which these authors balance individual American identity with collective identities and reinvent their familial, cultural, and national engenderings.

Readings on Black Boy

A thematic examination of Wright's work offers a biographical overview of the author, critical essays by varied experts, and a discussion of concurrent historical events. (view table of contents)

By Hayley Mitchell (editor)

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9780737702422 | Greenhaven Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A thematic examination of Wright's work offers a biographical overview of the author, critical essays by varied experts, and a discussion of concurrent historical events.

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9780737702439 | Greenhaven Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $36.20 | About this edition: A thematic examination of Wright's work offers a biographical overview of the author, critical essays by varied experts, and a discussion of concurrent historical events.

Light Writing & Life Writing: Photography in Autobiography

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By Timothy D. Adams

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Hardcover:

9780807825136 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $59.95

Paperback:

9780807847923 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $46.50

Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: A Casebook

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By Maya Angelou (editor) and Joanne M. Braxton (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780195116069 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 31, 1998, cover price $89.00

Paperback:

9780195116076 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 31, 1998, cover price $56.00

Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Offers a new interpretation of Clemens' life and work and explores the profound needs that led him to create the Twain persona

By Andrew Hoffman

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9780688127695 | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Offers a new interpretation of Clemens' life and work and explores the profound needs that led him to create the Twain persona

Paperback:

9780688161101 | Reprint edition (William Morrow & Co, July 1, 1998), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Offers a new interpretation of Clemens' life and work and explores the profound needs that led him to create the Twain persona

Understanding I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

Offers a look at the historical context of Maya Angelou's autobiography (view table of contents)

By Joanne Megna-Wallace

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9780313302299 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 30, 1998, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: Offers a look at the historical context of Maya Angelou's autobiography

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