In a provocative memoir of her life, work, the lessons she has learned, and the woman she has become, the author shares a collection of memories in such chapters as 'Men and Gods,' 'Loot and lists and lust (and things),' and 'Breathing lessons'

The first biography of the famous diarist written with exclusive access to her complete, original diary and with the full cooperation of her family traces her infamous erotic exploits among the intellectual elite. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.

A controversial best-seller offers an unsparing account by a noted writer of a tumultuous life marked by an alcoholic father, an ambitious mother, and her own divorce, and presents a look at her youthful affair with J. D. Salinger. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. NYT.

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn captured the imagination of readers in 1943. Now, over sixty years since its publication, thousands of readers of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn still enter its world and identify with Francie Nolan, growing up in a tenement in Williamsburg, Brooklyn...read more

Product Description: This work is the first comprehensive, full-length work on Alice Duer Miller and her contributions to American letters and cultural history. This original research will be of practical use to researchers and scholars in the areas of American literature, American studies, film history, Broadway history, and gender studies...read more

A wild adventure through the American work force follows the sixty-four-job career of Claudia Shear, who worked as a pastry chef, a nude model, a waitress, a whorehouse receptionist, and a Wall Street proofreader before finding the job of her dreams. Reprint. NYT.

Focuses on the author's own struggle to keep her Christian Science faith as she watched in bewilderment while her mother died of cancer, an illness that prayer could not cure for her

Product Description: As a cousin to the celebrated Lehman family, Birge grew up among colorful and eccentric members of New York's high society. Following a whirlwind romance, she married Jonathan Bingham, who served as ambassador to the United Nations and became a nine-term congressman from the Northwest Bronx...read more

Product Description: After contracting polio as a young girl Martha Mason of tiny Lattimore, North Carolina, lived a record sixty-one of her seventy-one years in an iron lung until her death in 2009, but she never let the 800-pound cylinder define her...read more

In this profound and darkly funny collection of essays, Jyl Lynn Felman explores the bittersweet experience of growing up the youngest of three girls in a Jewish American family in Dayton, Ohio. In a family unable to speak about feelings, the Felman sisters found their own ways to break through the silence and rigidity of their parents' religious beliefs and to vie for their mother's attention and love. As an adult, Felman reckons with her grief over her mother's suffering and eventual death from Parkinson's disease and its destruction of the family. Throughout, she writes of her own cravings in the sensual experience of her childhood—the taste of her mother's cooking, the feel of her touch, and how these memories have driven her adult life. "The loss of a mother is one of the most profound tragedies a daughter will face. Jyl Lynn Felman explores this territory with remarkable bravery. A stunning memoir.…Cravings is beautifully written and painfully honest. After turning the final page, I was hungry for more." —Hope Edelman, author of Motherless Daughters "With her sharp-eyed sensibility and spare, distinctive prose, Felman is always revealing." —Adrienne Rich

Product Description: No Description Available Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie, also known as The Yearling...read more

The author of the critically acclaimed Shizuko's Daughter recalls her journey from America back to her birthplace in Kobe, Japan, and her struggle to come to terms with memories of her mother's suicide and the family she left behind. Reprint. K. NYT. Tour.

Tells the story of Edith Wharton's efforts in World War I to save the lives of displaced Belgians and alleviate the suffering of the French through her reporting, writing, and fundraising

An intimate and witty portrait of one of America's most beloved columnists and humrorist writers explores the many facets of this extraordinary woman and details Bombeck's talent for adding humor to everyday life. Reprint.