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Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 891 ratings — published 2003
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as author-biography)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,210,571 ratings — published 1996
Under the Wide and Starry Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as author-biography)
avg rating 3.61 — 19,009 ratings — published 2014
Charles Dickens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as author-biography)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,264 ratings — published 2011
Virginia Woolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as author-biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,984 ratings — published 1996
Edith Wharton (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as author-biography)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,169 ratings — published 2007
The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: A New Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.99 — 93 ratings — published
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.52 — 102,949 ratings — published 2025
The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.74 — 23 ratings — published 1995
We Did Ok, Kid: A Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,549 ratings — published 2025
Vagabond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,306 ratings — published 2025
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 212,264 ratings — published 2007
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.45 — 165,808 ratings — published 1976
The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: A New Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published
The Chosen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.77 — 352 ratings — published 2022
The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.53 — 3,562 ratings — published 2024
James Joyce (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,989 ratings — published 1959
Tanqueray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,419 ratings — published 2022
In Search of a Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.55 — 223 ratings — published 1961
Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 546 ratings — published 2024
Arctic Summer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,649 ratings — published 2014
From the Mirror: Reflections on Living, Writing, and Dying Well (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published
Summer in Baden-Baden (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,478 ratings — published
The Autobiography of Charles G. Finney: The Life Story of America's Greatest Evangelist--In His Own Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.83 — 449 ratings — published 1876
Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.13 — 27,988 ratings — published 2023
Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.83 — 24 ratings — published 1998
Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.76 — 17 ratings — published 1933
Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,035 ratings — published 2018
The Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 48,733 ratings — published 2008
Anthony Trollope: His Work, Associates and Literary Originals (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1913
The House of Doors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,483 ratings — published 2023
When I Fell from the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,303 ratings — published 2011
The Crime Writer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.43 — 814 ratings — published 2016
Memoirs of an Egotist (Hesperus Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.51 — 299 ratings — published
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.29 — 842 ratings — published 2021
A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner: The Novels (Reader's Guides)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.23 — 22 ratings — published 1964
Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,851 ratings — published 2021
Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.02 — 263 ratings — published 1992
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 625 ratings — published 2021
Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 186 ratings — published 2021
No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 24,571 ratings — published 2021
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.90 — 21,426 ratings — published 2005
Agatha Christie: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,337 ratings — published 1984
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.39 — 381,772 ratings — published 1986
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.77 — 27,011 ratings — published 2019
In the Mountains of Madness: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.82 — 420 ratings — published 2016
Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 127 ratings — published 1996
Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 3.47 — 327 ratings — published 2012
The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.11 — 46 ratings — published 2010
Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as author-biography)
avg rating 4.07 — 91 ratings — published 2006
