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If you loved Updike by Adam Begley, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Literary Criticism, American, Literary, and Biography & Autobiography.

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Philip K. Dick A Comics Biography

Laurent Queyssi

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

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Three American Poets

Herman Melville

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

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David M. Halperin

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

To Name the Bigger Lie A Memoir in Two Stories — Sarah Viren

To Name the Bigger Lie A Memoir in Two Stories

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

Simply Hemingway — Peter L. Hays

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Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

Time Come Selected Prose — Linton Kwesi Johnson

Time Come Selected Prose

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

The Author-cat Clemens’s Life in Fiction — Forrest Glen Robinson

The Author-cat Clemens’s Life in Fiction

Forrest Glen Robinson

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

Mark Twain Preacher, Prophet, and Social Philosopher — Gary Scott Smith

Mark Twain Preacher, Prophet, and Social Philosopher

Gary Scott Smith

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

Selected Letters of Langston Hughes — Langston Hughes

Selected Letters of Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

The Man in the Empty Boat — Mark Salzman

The Man in the Empty Boat

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

James Baldwin Living in Fire — Bill Mullen

James Baldwin Living in Fire

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

Lost Years A Memoir 1945 – 1951 — Christopher Isherwood

Lost Years A Memoir 1945 – 1951

Christopher Isherwood

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

Rob Delaney Mother, Wife, Sister, Human, Warrior, Falcon, Yardstick, Turban, Cabbage — Rob Delaney

Rob Delaney Mother, Wife, Sister, Human, Warrior, Falcon, Yardstick, Turban, Cabbage

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

The Story of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas — Gerard Del Re

The Story of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters Insider Secrets from Hollywood’s Top Writers — Karl Iglesias

The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters Insider Secrets from Hollywood’s Top Writers

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

The River Queen A Memoir — Mary Morris

The River Queen A Memoir

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

Weightless Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul — Evette Dionne

Weightless Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

Stephen King A Biography — Albert Rolls

Stephen King A Biography

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

Enemies of Promise — Cyril Connolly

Enemies of Promise

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

My Bondage and My Freedom — Frederick Douglass

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

As I Remember It — James Branch Cabell

As I Remember It

James Branch Cabell

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

Higher Gossip Essays and Criticism — John Updike

Higher Gossip Essays and Criticism

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

Three Roads Back How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives — Robert D. Richardson

Three Roads Back How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives

Robert D. Richardson

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

Everybody Behaves Badly The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises — Lesley M. M. Blume

Everybody Behaves Badly The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

Lesley M. M. Blume

Themes: Literary Criticism • American • Biography & Autobiography

Fans of Updike by Adam Begley will find 24 titles here, all united by Literary Criticism, American, Literary. Authors represented include Laurent Queyssi, Herman Melville, David M. Halperin, Sarah Viren, and others.

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