A Decade of Hit Books
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Literary Biography


Literary Biography Books

Charles Dickens
The Brontës
Jane Austen: A Life
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Jane Austen at Home
Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation
Virginia Woolf
Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart
Thomas Hardy
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
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Acts of Forgiveness by Ted KarpfLove is the Main Ingredient by Lenore Nolan RyanA Boy at War by Bill MaierI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouA True Heart by Billy Dib
Author Biographies and Memoirs
631 books — 230 voters
A Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayWill in the World by Stephen GreenblattI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouDown and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellOut of Africa and Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
Literary biographies
488 books — 105 voters

Dostoevsky by Joseph FrankGoethe by Rüdiger SafranskiEternity's Sunrise by Leo DamroschBalzac by Graham RobbThomas Mann by Ronald Hayman
Non-Fiction Books about Literature & the Arts
181 books — 7 voters

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