Literary Figures in 1997

Louis Massignon: The Crucible of Compassion by Gude, Mary Louise

The Same River Twice by Walker, Alice

My Dear Mother: Stormy Boastful, and Tender Letters by Distinguished Sons--From Dostoevsky to Elvis by Gordon, Karen Elizabeth

The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography by Roth, Philip

Mark Twain in the Company of Women by Trombley, Laura E. Skandera

Letters of Ayn Rand by Rand, Ayn

Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter by Souhami, Diana

Wild Steps of Heaven by Villasenor, Victor

In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) by Barnes, Kim

Bambi and Me by Tremblay, Michel

Bloomsbury Recalled by Bell, Quentin

Selected Letters of Charles Reznikoff: 1917-1976 by Renkikoff, Charles

The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones by Baraka, Amiri

Sylvia Plath by

Seeing in the Dark: The Poetry of Phyllis Webb by Butling, Pauline

Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington by Pilkington, Laetitia

Cousins: A Memoir by Fugard, Athol

The World of Emily Dickinson by Longsworth, Polly

Conversations with N. Scott Momaday by

Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of Robert Benchley by Altman, Billy

Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams by Leverich, Lyle

Travels with Charley in Search of America by Steinbeck, John

The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence by Lawrence, D. H.

Emily Dickinson: Personae and Performance by Phillips, Elizabeth

A Hoosier Holiday by Dreiser, Theodore

John Muir: Nature Writings (Loa #92): The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Ess by Muir, John

The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search for Her Father by Gordon, Mary

The Letters of Christina Rossetti: 1843-1873 Volume 1 by Rossetti, Christina

William and Henry James: Selected Letters by James, William

Gertrude Stein Remembered by

The Several Lives of Chester Himes by Fabre, Michel, Margolies, Edward

A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin by Kazin, Alfred

At Eighty-Two: A Journal by Sarton, May

Only Child by O'Connor, Frank

The Naked Civil Servant by Crisp, Quentin

The Heart of a Woman by Angelou, Maya

On the Trail of Flora Thompson by Smith, John Owen

History of My Life: Volumes 3 and 4 by Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt

History of My Life: Volumes 9 and 10 by Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt

History of My Life: Volumes 11 and 12 by Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt

History of My Life: Volumes 5 and 6 by Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt

History of My Life: Volumes 7 and 8 by Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt

First Comes Love: First Comes Love: A Memoir by Winik, Marion

Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books by Schwartz, Lynne Sharon

The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the School of Anti-Slavery, 1840 to 1866 Volume 1 by

J.R.R. Tolkien by Moseley, Charles

The Writer on Her Work: New Essays in New Territory by

May Sarton by Sarton, May

Walter Benjamin: An Intellectual Biography by Witte, Bernd

Alex Posey: Creek Poet, Journalist, and Humorist by Littlefield, Daniel F., Jr.

Leon Forrest: Introductions and Interpretations by Cawelti, John G.

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir by Broyard, Anatole

Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work by Berry, Wendell

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

Invisible Allies by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 5: 1872-1873 Volume 9 by Twain, Mark

Bon Echo: The Denison Years by Savigny, Mary

Yeats and Women by Toomey, Deirdre

An Evelyn Waugh Chronology by Page, N.

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 5: Journal, Volume 5: 1852-1853. by Thoreau, Henry David

The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career by Montgomery, Lucy Maud

Emma Lazarus in Her World: Life and Letters by Roth-Young, Bette, Young, Bette Roth

Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel by Diment, Galya

The Kagero Diary: A Woman's Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan Volume 19 by

Aksharon Ke Saye by Amrita, Pritam

Half a Life: A Memoir by Ciment, Jill

My Dark Places: A True Crime Autobiography by Ellroy, James

Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James & William Dean Howells by James, Henry, Jr., Anesko, Michael

Conversations with Chinua Achebe by

Remembering James Agee by

Kindness of Strangers PB by Spoto, Donald

Of Fiction and Faith: Twelve American Writers Talk about Their Vision and Work by Brown, Dale

Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of American (Ameri)CA's Fall from Grace by Beers, David, Beers

Portrait of My Body: A Memoir in Essays by Lopate, Phillip

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

Life in a Day by Grumbach, Doris

The Journals of Louisa May Alcott by Alcott, Louisa May

The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors by Drew, Bernard a.

I'll Always Have Paris: A Memoir (Large Print Edition) by Buchwald, Art

William Faulkner: His Life and Work by Minter, David

Chinua Achebe: A Biography by Ezenwa-Ohaeto

The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume III: Selections, 1944-1963 by Du Bois, W. E. B.

The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume II: Selections, 1934-1944 by Du Bois, W. E. B.

The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume I: Selections, 1877-1934 Volume 1 by Du Bois, W. E. B.

Dialogues and Letters by Seneca

Family: American Writers Remember Their Own by Fiffer, Sharon Sloan

Buckskin and Broadcloth: A Celebration of E. Pauline Johnson -- Tekahionwake, 1861-1913 by Johnston, Sheila M. F.

Down These Mean Streets: A Memoir by Thomas, Piri

Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography by Quinn, Arthur Hobson

Lemady: Episodes of a Writer's Life by Roberts, Keith

Recovering: A Journal by Sarton, May

The End of the Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton and the First World War by Price, A.

Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman by

To Live in the Center of the Moment: Literary Autobiographies of Aging by Waxman, Barbara Frey

Echoes of an Autobiography by Mahfouz, Naguib