Category: Autobiography/Biography

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Non-Fiction

Gertrude Stein (Modern Critical Views) by Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom | Gertrude Stein (Modern Critical Views) | Scholarly biography

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Memoir

Memoirs Of Moving On by McRae-McMahon Dorothy

McRae-McMahon Dorothy | Memoirs Of Moving On | Faith, passion and resilience have been the hallmarks of Dorothy McRae-McMahon’s extraordinary life. Now 70, her memoirs begin with growing up in drou

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Truly Wilde by Joan Schenkar

Joan Schenkar | Truly Wilde | She was lovely, sophisticated, and famous for her witty conversation, even in a social circle that was known for its fabulous talkers. The only child

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Picasso by Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein | Picasso | For more than a generation, Gertrude Stein’s Paris home at 27 rue de Fleurus was the center of a glittering coterie of artists and writers, one of who

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Music

Going Down With Janis by Peggy Caserta; Dan Knapp

Peggy Caserta; Dan Knapp | Going Down With Janis | This is the raw and scathing portrait of Janis Joplin by her female lover. This book recounts those harrowing days when these two women were just hipp

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Cravings by Jyl Lynn Felman

Jyl Lynn Felman | Cravings | In the essays contained in Cravings: A Sensual Memoir, writer and performance artist Jyl Lynn Felman looks at desire not in the abstract, but i

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Life With The Ladies Of Llangollen by Lady Eleanor Butler; Sarah Ponsonby; Elizabeth Mavor

Lady Eleanor Butler; Sarah Ponsonby; Elizabeth Mavor | Life With The Ladies Of Llangollen | The ‘Ladies of Llangollen’, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, were two upper-class Irish women whose cohabitation shocked and intrigued contemporary

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Forbidden Fires by Margaret C. Anderson

Margaret C. Anderson | Forbidden Fires | Part memoir, part novel, includes over 97 photographs of Margaret Anderson’s life.

The novel that Margaret Anderson called ‘the story I want

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Wild Girls by Diana Souhami

Diana Souhami | Wild Girls |

Wild Girls is the critically acclaimed true story of two wealthy American heiresses—one an artist, the other a writer—whose stormy, pa

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Cancer in Two Voices by Sandra Butler; Barbara Rosenblum

Sandra Butler; Barbara Rosenblum | Cancer in Two Voices | When Cancer in Two Voices was first published in 1991, one out of every nine women in the U.S was at risk of developing breast cancer. Now, as