Books like Mark Twain A Life

#1

Savage Journey Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo

Peter Richardson

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#2

Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her

Melanie Rehak

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#3

The World According to Joan Didion

Evelyn McDonnell

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#4

Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War

Amanda Vaill

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#5

Hemingway on the China Front His WWII Spy Mission with Martha Gellhorn

Peter Moreira

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#6

Gellhorn A Twentieth-Century Life

Caroline Moorehead

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#7

A Walk-on Part

Melanie Pflaum

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#8

In the Land of Men A Memoir

Adrienne Miller

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#9

Eliot After The Waste Land

Robert Crawford

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#10

Surrendering Oz

Bonnie Friedman

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#11

Point to Point Navigation A Memoir 1964 to 2006

Gore Vidal

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#12

Skirting Traditions Arizona Women Writers and Journalists, 1912-2012

Arizona Press Women

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#13

Where the Past Begins A Writer’s Memoir

Amy Tan

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#14

One Matchless Time A Life of William Faulkner

Jay Parini

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#15

Listen, World! How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman

Julia Scheeres

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#16

Paris: A Love Story

Kati Marton

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#17

Home Town News William Allen White and the Emporia Gazette

Sally Foreman Griffith

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#18

The Mystery of Charles Dickens

A. N. Wilson

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#19

Thunderclap A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death

Laura Cumming

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#20

Sentiment & Celebrity Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Fame

Thomas Nelson Baker

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#21

Atticus Finch The Biography

Joseph Crespino

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#22

James Baldwin A Biography

David Leeming

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#23

Stan Lee The Man Behind Marvel

Bob Batchelor

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#24

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

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