Category: Autobiographical Fiction

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The Memory Palace by JoSelle Vanderhooft

JoSelle Vanderhooft | The Memory Palace | The rooms in The Memory Palace are filled with holy relics, profane agonies, memories that are revelations, and windows to wonders . . .A significant

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The Female Husband: Or, the Surprising History of Mrs. Mary, Alias Mr. George Hamilton by Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding | The Female Husband: Or, the Surprising History of Mrs. Mary, Alias Mr. George Hamilton | In The Female Husband (1746), Henry Fielding spins a fictionalized account of the real and sensational arrest of Charles Hamilton, tried for vagrancy

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Scuttlebutt by Jana Williams; Jana L. Williams

Jana Williams; Jana L. Williams | Scuttlebutt | Roberta Weston enlists in the U.S. Navy in the early 1970s, and faces the rigors of boot camp outside of Baltimore

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Of Lena Geyer by Marcia Davenport

Marcia Davenport | Of Lena Geyer | Well-known novel of the life of an opera singer. Lena has a young satellite and adorer, but Elsie is careful to say that while “gossip has had many cr

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Disturbed By Her Song by Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee | Disturbed By Her Song | Disturbed By Her Song collects the work of Esther Garber and her half-brother Judas Garbah, the mysterious family of writers that Tanith Lee has been

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Among The Daughters by Anga Enters

Anga Enters | Among The Daughters | Autobiographical novel of a girl who, like the author, finally becomes a dancer and choreographer. A good deal of space is devoted to a friendship bet

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Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes | Nightwood | The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece–one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era.

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes’ strange and sinuous tour de fo

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Awkward and Definition by Ariel Schrag

Ariel Schrag | Awkward and Definition | Ariel Schrag captures the American high school experience in all its awkward, questioning glory in Awkward and Definition, the first of three a

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A Crystal Diary by Frankie Hucklenbroich

Frankie Hucklenbroich | A Crystal Diary | The history of gay and lesbian lives is written not only in tales of gay politics or legislative amendments, but in the sounds and the stories of the

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Wasteland by Jo Sinclair

Jo Sinclair | Wasteland | Wasteland is the story of Jacob Braunowitz, a young Jewish man who, tortured by self-doubts and nightmare fears, turns his back on his heritage, his h