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Across Literary Figures, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, and American — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Cheever A Life by Blake Bailey.

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I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, 1955-1997 — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, 1955-1997

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Three American Poets — Herman Melville

Three American Poets

Herman Melville

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The Middle of Everything Memoirs of Motherhood — Michelle Herman

The Middle of Everything Memoirs of Motherhood

Michelle Herman

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The Letters of John Cheever — John Cheever

The Letters of John Cheever

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

A Life in Letters — John Steinbeck

A Life in Letters

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Good Night, Beloved Comrade The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver — Denton Welch

Good Night, Beloved Comrade The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Wallace Stevens and Francis Parkman The American West and Beyond — Michael George Ryan

Wallace Stevens and Francis Parkman The American West and Beyond

Michael George Ryan

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The Habit of Being Letters of Flannery O’Connor — Flannery O’Connor

The Habit of Being Letters of Flannery O’Connor — Flannery O’Connor

Flannery O'Connor

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

My Bondage and My Freedom Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism — Frederick Douglass

My Bondage and My Freedom Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism

Frederick Douglass

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Letters from the Raven Being the Correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin — Lafcadio Hearn

Letters from the Raven Being the Correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Selected Letters of Henry James — Henry James

Selected Letters of Henry James

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

After Kathy Acker A Biography — Chris Kraus

After Kathy Acker A Biography

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Understanding the Hillbilly Thomist The Philosophical Foundations of Flannery O’Connor’s Narrative Art — Damian Ference

Understanding the Hillbilly Thomist The Philosophical Foundations of Flannery O’Connor’s Narrative Art

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The Collected Dorothy Parker — Dorothy Parker

The Collected Dorothy Parker

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through — T. Fleischmann

Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The Cat Inside — William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

American Sketches Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane — Walter Isaacson

American Sketches Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane

Walter Isaacson

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Lincoln The Biography of a Writer — Fred Kaplan

Lincoln The Biography of a Writer

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

My Bondage and My Freedom — Frederick Douglass

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale — Andrew J. Rausch

Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale — Andrew J. Rausch

Andrew J Rausch

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The Life and Letters of Washington Irving. by His Nephew, Pierre M. Irving. Vol. 3 — Pierre Munroe Irving

The Life and Letters of Washington Irving. by His Nephew, Pierre M. Irving. Vol. 3

Pierre Munroe Irving

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

My Life, My Body — Marge Piercy

My Life, My Body

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore : a History of Love and Violence Among the African American Elite — Eleanor Alexander

Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore : a History of Love and Violence Among the African American Elite

Eleanor Alexander

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

William Ellery Leonard — Reinitz, Neale

William Ellery Leonard

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Literary Figures, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections — the same threads that run through Cheever A Life by Blake Bailey. Among the authors featured: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Herman Melville, Michelle Herman, John Cheever, and others.

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