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Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred Knopf 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 NAI

Hughes, Langston

Summary: Presents a collection of letters exchanged over the course of four decades between poet Langston Hughes and his mentor, Carl Van Vechten, offering an incisive look at current events and issues.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5209 HUG

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rutgers University Press 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 LET

Baldwin, James

Summary: The story of the friendship between writer Baldwin and editor Stein describes the early days of their life-long companionship in their North Bronx high school and their shared literary endeavors.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 BAL

Wagamese, Richard

Summary: "Ojibwe tradition calls for fathers to walk their children through the world, sharing the ancient understanding "that we are all, animate and inanimate alike, living on the one pure breath with which the Creator gave life to the Universe." In this new entry in the Seedbank series, an intimate series of letters to the six-year-old son from whom he was estranged, Richard Wagamese fulfills this...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAGAMESE, RICHARD WAG

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1972

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5 LIN

Berry, Wendell

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1974

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5 LIN

Hughes, Langston

Summary: "This unprecedented collection of Langston Hughes's letters is arranged by decades, with helpful interstitial material and notes throughout to guide us through Hughes's journey in all its aspects: literary, personal, political, practical. His correspondents include such luminaries as Carl Van Vechten, Blanche Knopf, Ezra Pound, Countee Cullen, Paul Robeson, and Richard Wright. The letters tell...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUGHES, LANGSTON HUG

Summary: A New York writer with a passion for literature writes to a London bookstore in search of rare classics. A good-natured, reserved Englishman answers her request, beginning a relationship that spans two continents and two decades.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002

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Hanff, Helene.

Summary: A collection of letters depicting the twenty-year relationship between American author Helene Hanff and the employees of a London bookshop.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Lit Hanff

Bradbury, Ray

Summary: Bradbury scholar and biographer Jonathan R. Eller offers the first sustained look at Ray Bradbury's life in letters from his late teens to his ninth decade. Bradbury's correspondence was far-reaching--he interacted with a rich cross section of 20th-century cultural figures, writers, film directors, editors, and others who simply wanted insights or encouragement from a writer who had enriched...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: illustrations, portraits 2023

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Burroughs, William S.

Summary: Presenting a glimpse into the private life of the misunderstood writer, this collection of letters from the 1960s and 1970s reveals the era in which Burroughs became an influential artistic and cultural leader beyond the literary world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816.54 BUR

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5 LIN

Harwood, Laurence

Contents: Introduction -- Friends at Oxford -- Lovers of literature -- Walking tours -- Friendship after Oxford -- Godfather Jack -- My letters from my godfather -- My mother's death -- My failure at Oxford -- Jack's illness and marriage to Joy Davidman -- Jack's last years -- Jack's death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: IVP Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 HAR

Bowles, Jane

Summary: Though Jane Bowles published only one novel, one play, and a handful ofstories, her genius for spare prose and vivid dialogue had an outsized influence onher contemporaries. Tennessee Williams called her "the most important writer ofprose fiction in modern American letters"; for John Ashbery she was "one of thefinest modern writers of fiction in any language." Now, on the occasion of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 BOW

Orwell, George

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828 ORW

Ellison, Ralph

Summary: "An autobiography through the previously unpublished letters of the renowned author of Invisible Man, with insights into the riddle of American identity, the writer's craft, and his own life and work. Over six decades (1933 to 1993), Ralph Ellison's extensive and revealing correspondence remarkably details his aspirations and anxieties, confidence and uncertainties throughout his personal and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELLISON, RALPH ELL

Kerouac, Jack

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 KER

Kerouac, Jack

Summary: The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the most celebrated names of the Beat Generation, linked together not only by their shared artistic sensibility but also by a deep and abiding friendship, one that colored their lives and greatly influenced their writing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010

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Orwell, George

Contents: v. 1. An age like this, 1920-1940 -- v. 2. My country right or left, 1940-1943 -- v. 3. As I please, 1943-1946 -- v. 4. In front of your nose, 1946-1950.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: D.R. Godine 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828 ORW

Crane, Hart

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 CRA

Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)

Summary: A collection of nonfiction writings includes discussions on the writers who have influenced the author's literary career, his early encounters with literary culture, the impact of the works of Gandhi and other Indian writers, and reflections on his life and family history.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 NAI

Twain, Mark

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1979

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 TWA

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