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Authors, American Authors, American 19th century Biography Authors, American 19th century Biography Juvenile literature Authors, American 20th century Biography Friendship United States Case studies Humorists, American 19th century Biography Poe, Edgar Allan 1809-1849 Race relations in literature Twain, Mark 1835-1910 United States Race relationsKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: A look at the experiences of Louisa May Alcott during the Civil War that led to the writing of Little Women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALCHarness, Cheryl.
Summary: Follows the life of Washington Irving from meeting his namesake, George Washington, and through his years as a businessman, lawyer, traveler, and diplomat as well as his inspiration for "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 IRVWalsh, John Evangelist
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutgers University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.3 WALShelden, Michael.
Summary: Drawing heavily on Twain's own letters and journals, Shelden illuminates Mark Twain's twilight years in this account of the legendary author's life, recounting both Twain's private family experiences and his larger-than-life public image.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 TWAIN, MARK ShePflueger, Lynda.
Summary: A biography of the American humorist and writer whose writing greatly reflected the events of his life, particularly his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1999
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB TWAIN PFLLystra, Karen.
Contents: 1. Mark Twain--and Sam's women -- 2. Heartbreak -- 3. Rearranging the household -- 4. Looking for love -- 5. A pact with the devil -- 6. Life in the sanitarium -- 7. Someone to love him and pet him -- 8. A viper to her bosom -- 9. Innocence at home -- 10. Stormfield -- 11. An American Lear -- 12. Illusions of love -- 13. Unraveling -- 14. The exile returns -- 15. Confrontation -- 16. A...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 TWABond, Jenny.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.9 BONAuster, Paul
Summary: Stephen Crane transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight. Auster casts a dazzled eye on Crane's astonishing originality and productivity. He provides insight into Crane's creative processes, and shows how Crane's life experiences, in rebounding...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRANE, STEPHEN AUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CRANE AUSLabor, Earle
Summary: "The first authorized biography of a great American novelist"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LONDON, JACK LABWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: A colorful portrait of the well known author.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.409 WARTwain, Mark
Summary: Mark Twain’s life—one of the richest and raciest America has known—is delightfully portrayed in this mosaic of words and more than 600 pictures that capture the career of one of America’s most colorful personalities. The words are Twain’s own, taken from his writings—not only the autobiography but also his letters, notebooks, newspaper reporting, sketches, travel pieces, and fiction. The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK TWASummary: Part of the Naxos AudioBooks Essential series, this CD combines some of Poe's best-loved ghost stories, plus a selection of poetry including The Raven and an additional biography.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos Audio Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.3 POEPowers, Ron.
Summary: Mark Twain's works are a living national treasury, yet somehow, beneath the vast river of literature that he left behind, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the man who became Mark Twain, has receded from view, leaving us with only faint and often trivialized remnants of his towering personality. Here, author Powers recreates the 19th century's vital landscapes and tumultuous events while restoring the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK POWTwain, Mark
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 TwainRau, Dana Meachen
Summary: Examines the life of the nineteenth-century author famous for the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which denounced slavery and intensified the disagreement between the North and South.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET STOWERuth, Amy.
Summary: Discusses the life of the popular nineteenth-century author of "Little Women."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 1999
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ALCOTT RUTEdel, Leon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAMES, HENRY EDEShowalter, Elaine
Summary: "Julia Howe (1819 -1910) was a beautiful, studious New York heiress and aspiring poet when she married Bostonian Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, a hero of the Greek war of independence against the Turks and an internationally acclaimed pioneer in the education of the blind. Their marriage united two exceptional people. Together the Howes knew many of the key figures of their era, from Charles Dickens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOWE, JULIA WARD SHOPerry, Mark
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 PERPerry, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trafe Paperbacks 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PERTwain, Mark
Summary: Presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 818..4 TWACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK TWA Vol. 1Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILMAN, CHARLOTTER PERKINS GILTwain, Mark
Summary: "This third and final volume crowns and completes [Twain's] work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University; railing against Theodore...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2015