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24 titles for readers of Updike by Adam Begley, selected for shared themes: Literary Figures, Literary Criticism, American, and Biography & Autobiography.

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Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

Hamlet’s Dresser A Memoir — Bob Smith

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Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

Mark Twain — Geoffrey C. Ward

Geoffrey C. Ward

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The Endless Steppe — Esther Hautzig

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The World of Louisa May Alcott — William Anderson

The World of Louisa May Alcott

William Anderson

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

Sharp The Women who Made an Art of Having an Opinion — Michelle Dean

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Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

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 Figures • Literary Criticism • American

U and I A True Story — Nicholson Baker

U and I A True Story

Nicholson Baker

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

Mile Marker Zero The Moveable Feast of Key West — William McKeen

Mile Marker Zero The Moveable Feast of Key West

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

American Autobiography After 9/11 — Megan Brown

American Autobiography After 9/11

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

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

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

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

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

To Name the Bigger Lie A Memoir in Two Stories

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

Report from the Interior — Paul Auster

Report from the Interior

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

Collected Nonfiction — Mark Twain

Collected Nonfiction

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

Punch Me Up to the Gods A Memoir — Brian Broome

Punch Me Up to the Gods A Memoir

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

The Bohemians Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers who Reinvented American Literature — Ben Tarnoff

The Bohemians Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers who Reinvented American Literature

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

The Critical Reception of Emerson Unsettling All Things — Sarah Ann Wider

The Critical Reception of Emerson Unsettling All Things

Sarah Ann Wider

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

The Hunchback of East Hollywood A Biography of Charles Bukowski — Aubrey Malone

The Hunchback of East Hollywood A Biography of Charles Bukowski

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

Robert Penn Warren, Shadowy Autobiography, and Other Makers of American Literature — Joseph R. Millichap

Robert Penn Warren, Shadowy Autobiography, and Other Makers of American Literature

Joseph R. Millichap

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

Hospital Sketches — Louisa May Alcott

Hospital Sketches

Louisa May Alcott

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

I Wanted to Write a Poem The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet — William Carlos Williams

I Wanted to Write a Poem The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet

William Carlos Williams

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

Mark Z. Danielewski Contemporary American & Canadian Writers — Joe Bray

Mark Z. Danielewski Contemporary American & Canadian Writers

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

Selected Letters of Henry James — Henry James

Selected Letters of Henry James

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

A Summer of Hummingbirds Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade — Christopher E. G. Benfey

A Summer of Hummingbirds Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade

Christopher E. G. Benfey

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • American

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