Literary Figures in 1996

William Wordsworth: A Poetic Life by Mahoney, John L.

Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year by Sarton, May

Balzac: A Life by Robb, Graham

Report from Part Two by Brooks, Gwendolyn

I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography by Sarton, May

The House by the Sea by Sarton, May

A.S.Byatt by Todd, Richard

Leo Tolstoy by Bayley, John

Into the Wild by Krakauer, Jon

Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity by Mahony, Robert

Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Ashton, Rosemary

Old Burnside by Arnow, Harriette Simpson

My Dog Skip by Morris, Willie

How Am I to Be Heard?: Letters of Lillian Smith by Smith, Lillian

Bulgakov: The Novelist-Playwright by

Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography by Fountain, Gary, Harrison, J. Ronald

Country Days by Taylor, Alice

Talking about William Faulkner: Interviews with Jimmy Faulkner and Others by Wolff, Sally, Watkins, Floyd C.

The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, 1995-1960, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath by Davison, Peter

In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary by Lessing, Doris

Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1: 1940-1956 by Kerouac, Jack

Elie Wiesel: A Voice for Humanity by Stern, Ellen Norman

Charles Dickens: A Literary Life by Smith, Grahame

Thomas Hardy: A Literary Life by Gibson, J.

Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography by Reynolds, David S.

Cross Creek by Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States by Kammen, Michael

A. E. Housman: A Critical Biography by Page, Norman

Gospel of Apollonius of Tyana: His Life and Deeds According to Philostratos by Guthrie, Kenneth S.

Marie Corelli: The Writer and the Woman by Bell, R. S., Warren, R. S., Coates, Thomas F. G.

Conversations with Derek Walcott by Walcott, Derek

The Life of Robert Browning: A Critical Biography by Ryals, Clyde de L.

Thomas Hardy: A Literary Life by Gibson, J.

Conversations with Anne Rice by Riley, Michael

Aleksander Wat: Life and Art of an Iconoclast by Venclova, Tomas

Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage by Holmes, Richard

Footsteps: Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer by Holmes, Richard

More Conversations with Eudora Welty by

Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled by Davis, Thadious M.

Charlotte Bronte, a Passionate Life by Gordon, Lyndall

Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest by Quinn, Daniel

My Brother, Ernest Hemingway, Third Edition by Hemingway, Leicester

The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction by Bodenheimer, Rosemarie

Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia by Salzman, Mark

Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i by Hongo, Garrett

A Moveable Feast by Hemingway, Ernest

Report from Part Two by Brooks, Gwendolyn

Emblems of Conduct by Windham, Donald

Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop by Bishop, Elizabeth, Monteiro, George

Patrimony: A True Story by Roth, Philip

The Letters of Matthew Arnold: Volume 5 by Arnold, Matthew

Charlotte Yonge by Hayter, Alethea

Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell by Mariani, Paul

The Christmas of the Phonograph Records: A Recollection by Sandoz, Mari

Fire: From "A Journal of Love" the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934-1937 by Nin, Anais

Call It Experience: The Years of Learning How to Write by Caldwell, Erskine

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Allison, Dorothy

Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by Conn, Peter

Modern American Memoirs by Dillard, Annie

Native in a Strange Land: Trials and Tremors by Coleman, Wanda

Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806 by Waldron, Mary

The Orton Diaries by

The Simple Truth: Poems by Levine, Philip

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by McCourt, Frank

World of Hannah More by DeMers, Patricia

Wystan and Chester: A Personal Memoir of W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman by Clark, Thekla

Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide by Knox, Melissa

Brian Patten by Cookson, Linda

The Life of William Faulkner: A Critical Biography by Gray, Richard

Following the Equator V1 by Twain, Mark

A Poet or Nothing at All: The Tübingen and Basel Years of Herman Hesse by Helt, Richard C.

Home: American Writers Remember Rooms of Their Own by

Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson by Polito, Robert

A Moveable Feast by Hemingway, Ernest

A Frozen Woman by Ernaux, Annie

Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition by Blaeser, Kimberly M.

American Notebooks: A Writer's Journey by Blais, Marie-Claire

The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem by Heilbrun, Carolyn G.

Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters by Asimov, Stanley

Lincoln by Donald, David Herbert

About Elie Wiesel: Teachings for the Future / Autour d'Élie Wiesel: Une parole pour l'avenir by de Saint Chéron, Michaël

Emerson: The Mind on Fire by Richardson, Robert D.

Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace by Feuer, Kathryn B.

With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker by Burroughs, William S., Bockris, Victor

The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family by Wyatt-Brown, Bertram

Whitman the Political Poet by Erkkila, Betsy

Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Cohen, Morton N.

How I Became Hettie Jones by Jones, Hettie

Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence: Volume 10 by Olson, Charles, Creeley, Robert

Down the Nights and Down the Days: Eugene O'Neill's Catholic Sensibility by Shaughnessy, Edward L.

My Fight to Survive: An Inspirational True Story by Valvano, Lisa L.

Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 by Frank, Joseph