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LINDBERGH(Subject); Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Dearly Beloved 1962 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1071096. ISBN #1299598102 / 9781299598102. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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LINDBERGH(Subject); Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Dearly Beloved 1962 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1071096. ISBN #1299598102 / 9781299598102. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A June wedding sets the scene for Anne Morrow Lindbergh's bestselling novel, Dearly Beloved. The ceremony is a great moment during which the "gathered together" survey not just this couple, this occasion, but their own lives, hopes, and fears. As the family and guests follow the familiar marriage service, they are stirred to new insights-on love, on marriage, and on all the stages of development involved. For the young and eager bridesmaid and best man, marriage still lies ahead; but for the mothers of the bride and groom, and for friends and relatives, the sight of the young couple and the words of the minister evoke more troubling thoughts and deeper questions. Anne Morrow Lindbergh wisely chose the framework of a wedding as a meditation on togetherness to contrast the questions she contemplated on solitude in her bestselling classic Gift from the Sea. The novel's structure also gave her scope for her reflections-some of them autobiographical-and intuitions about the most crucial of human relationships, reflections she calls "a theme and variations."
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LINDBERGH(Subject); Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Flower and the Nettle: Diaries and Letters 1936-1939 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106725. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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LONDON(Subject); Stasz, Clarice American Dreamers: Charmian and Jack London St Martins Pr 1988 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1013964. ISBN #0312021607 / 9780312021603. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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LONDON(Subject); Stasz, Clarice American Dreamers: Charmian and Jack London St Martins Pr 1988 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1013964. ISBN #0312021607 / 9780312021603. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Jack London's stories of adventure in the frozen landscapes of the Yukon and the steamy islands of the South Seas have captured the imaginations of readers all over the world. Born into the working class, London was a major force in the lively Socialist movement of his day. In 1903 he shocked the morals of his country when he left his wife and two young daughters for a spunky spinster five years his senior. A new breed of woman, Charmian Kitteridge was notorious in the Bay area for daring to ride her horse astride and work in an office, unlike proper women of the day. As his "Mate-Woman," Charmian contributed to Jack's accomplishments -- she was his editor, transcriber, confidante, as well as the model for many of Jack's female characters. Together they overcame threats to their love that stemmed from Jack's alcoholism, infidelities, and illness. This is a compelling portrait that challenges the long"Cheld view of London as a rough, hard-drinking womanizer, and of Charmian as a passive, childish dependent. Instead, this is a love story and a fascinating portrait of a couple whose courage, passion, and vitality remain a model of love fulfilled.
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LORCA, GARCIA; (Subject); Adams, Mildred Garcia Lorca: Playwright and Poet George Braziller 1977 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1168775. ISBN #0807608734 / 9780807608739. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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LORCA; (Subject); Campbell, Roy Lorca: An Appreciation of His Poetry Haskell House Publishers Ltd. 1970 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1171636. ISBN #0838312268 / 9780838312261. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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Maeterlinck, Maurice / Teixeira De Mattos, Alexander Mountain Paths Dodd, Mead and Company 1919 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1145118. (keywords: Essays) (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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MAILER(Subject); Manso, Peter Mailer: His Life And Times Washington Square Press 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1170942. ISBN #1416562869 / 9781416562863. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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MAILER(Subject); Manso, Peter Mailer: His Life And Times Washington Square Press 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1170942. ISBN #1416562869 / 9781416562863. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary THE DEFINITIVE, AUTHORIZED ORAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE AMERICAN ICON The winner of every major national literary award, the preeminent novelist of his generation, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a movie director, politician, pugilist, antiwar activist, hipster, philosopher, and enfant terrible, Norman Mailer has been maligned, loved, hated, belittled, idolized -- but never ignored. This sweeping biography captures the legend's extraordinary life and career in his own fascinating words and in vivid accounts by his famous peers, friends, enemies, wives, lovers, and family members. Mailer is an extraordinary tapestry, a portrait of an era as well as a man -- as protean as the subject himself and just as overflowing with life.
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MARQUEZ(Subject); Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Living To Tell The Tale hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1044789v1. ISBN #1400041341 / 9781400041343. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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MARQUEZ(Subject); Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Living To Tell The Tale hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1044789v1. ISBN #1400041341 / 9781400041343. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel Garc a M rquez s life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It has the shape, the quality, and the vividness of a conversation with the reader a tale of people, places, and events as they occur to him: the colorful stories of his eccentric family members; the great influence of his mother and maternal grandfather; his consuming career in journalism, and the friends and mentors who encouraged him; the myths and mysteries of his beloved Colombia; personal details, undisclosed until now, that would appear later, transmuted and transposed, in his fiction; and, above all, his fervent desire to become a writer. And, as in his fiction, the narrator here is an inspired observer of the physical world, able to make clear the emotions and passions that lie at the heart of a life in this instance, his own. Living to Tell the Tale is a radiant, powerful, and beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Gabriel Garc a M rquez as a writer and as a man.
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MARX, ELEANOR; (Subject); Holmes, Rachel Eleanor Marx: A Life Bloomsbury Press 2015 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1165183. ISBN #1620409704 / 9781620409701. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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MASON(Subject); Mason, Bobbie Ann Clear Springs: A Memoir Random House 1999 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1008883. ISBN #0679449256 / 9780679449256. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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MASON(Subject); Mason, Bobbie Ann Clear Springs: A Memoir Random House 1999 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1008883. ISBN #0679449256 / 9780679449256. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this superb memoir, the bestselling author of In Country and other award-winning books tells her own story, and the story of a Kentucky farm family, the Masons of Clear Springs. Like Russell Baker's Growing Up, Jill Ker Conway's The Road from Coorain, and other classic literary memoirs, Clear Springs takes us back in time to recapture a way of life that has all but disappeared, a country culture deeply rooted in work and food and family, in common sense and music and the land. Clear Springs is also an American woman's odyssey, exploring how a misfit girl who dreamed of distant places grew up in the forties, fifties, and sixties, and fulfilled her ambition to be a writer. A multilayered narrative of three generations--Bobbie Ann Mason, her parents and grandparents-- Clear Springs gracefully interlaces several different lives, decades, and locales, moving from the industrious life on a Kentucky farm to travels around the South with Mason as president of the Hilltoppers Fan Club; from the hippie lifestyle of the 1960s New York counterculture to the shock-therapy ward of a mental institution; from a farmhouse to the set of a Hollywood movie; from pop music concerts to a small rustic schoolhouse. Clear Springs depicts the changes that have come to family, to women, and to heartland America in the twentieth century, as well as to Bobbie Ann Mason herself. When the movie of Mason's bestselling novel In Country is filmed near Clear Springs, it brings the first limousines to town, even as it brings out once again the wisdom and values of Mason's remarkable parents. Her mother, especially, stands at the center of this book. Mason's journey leads her to a recognition of the drama and significance of her mother's life and to a new understanding of heritage, place, and family roots. Brilliant and evocative, Clear Springs is a stunning achievement.
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MAUGHAM(Subject); Morgan, Ted Maugham Simon & Schuster 1980 hardcover. Book Club edition. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1001360. ISBN #0671240773 / 9780671240776. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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MAUGHAM(Subject); Morgan, Ted Maugham Simon & Schuster 1980 hardcover. Book Club edition. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1001360. ISBN #0671240773 / 9780671240776. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary At last there is a definitive biography of W. Somerset Maugham, one of the most remarkable and secretive literary figures of the twentieth century. Ted Morgan has penetrated the barriers which for years prevented the creation of a full portrait of this paradoxical writer - barriers set up by Maugham himself, who asked friends to destroy his correspondence, and who instructed his literary executor not to assist any eventual biographers. Unlike most nineteenth century authors, Maugham took up writing as a full-time occupation. It made him a millionaire and filled his life with luxury and adventure. But behind his facade of success and excitement Maugham was an emotional cripple who could not come to terms with his own homosexuality. He married, in an Edwardian attempt to keep up appearances, yet carried on a 30 year love affair with Gerald Haxton. He died a lonely and embittered figure, alienated even from his family.
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MCCOURT(Subject); MCCOURT(Subject); McCourt, Frank Teacher Man: A Memoir Scribner 2005 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151234. ISBN #0743243773 / 9780743243773. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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MCCOURT(Subject); MCCOURT(Subject); McCourt, Frank Teacher Man: A Memoir Scribner 2005 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151234. ISBN #0743243773 / 9780743243773. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize -- winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came 'Tis, his glorious account of his early years in New York. Now, here at last, is McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer. Teacher Man is also an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and heartbreaking honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. His methods anything but conventional, McCourt creates a lasting impact on his students through imaginative assignments he instructs one class to write "An Excuse Note from Adam or Eve to God" , singalongs featuring recipe ingredients as lyrics , and field trips imagine taking twenty-nine rowdy girls to a movie in Times Square . McCourt struggles to find his way in the classroom and spends his evenings drinking with writers and dreaming of one day putting his own story to paper. Teacher Man shows McCourt developing his unparalleled ability to tell a great story as, five days a week, five periods per day, he works to gain the attention and respect of unruly, hormonally charged or indifferent adolescents. McCourt's rocky marriage, his failed attempt to get a Ph.D. at Trinity College, Dublin, and his repeated firings due to his propensity to talk back to his superiors ironically lead him to New York's most prestigious school, Stuyvesant High School, where he finally finds a place and a voice. "Doggedness," he says, is "not as glamorous as ambition or talent or intellect or charm, but still the one thing that got me through the days and nights." For McCourt, storytelling itself is the source of salvation, and in Teacher Man the journey to redemption -- and literary fame -- is an exhilarating adventure.
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MCCOURT(Subject); McCourt, Frank 'Tis: A Memoir Scribner 1999 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1030415. ISBN #0684848783 / 9780684848785. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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MCCOURT(Subject); McCourt, Frank 'Tis: A Memoir Scribner 1999 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1030415. ISBN #0684848783 / 9780684848785. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we have 'Tis, the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. It is Frank's incomparable voice -- his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue -- that renders these experiences spellbinding. When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that men and women who have dreamed and toiled for years to get to America should "stick to their own kind" once they arrive. Somehow, Frank knows that he should be getting an education, and though he left school at fourteen, he talks his way into New York University. There, he falls in love with the quintessential Yankee, long-legged and blonde, and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach -- and to write -- that Frank finds his place in the world. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of readers in Angela's Ashes comes of age. As Malcolm Jones said in his Newsweek review of Angela's Ashes, "It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he is done...and McCourt proves himself one of the very best." Frank McCourt's 'Tis is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time, and it is a masterpiece.
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MCCOURT(Subject); McCourt, Malachy Singing My Him Song 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1019058. ISBN #0060195932 / 9780060195939. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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MCCOURT(Subject); McCourt, Malachy Singing My Him Song 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1019058. ISBN #0060195932 / 9780060195939. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death, squalor, poverty, and abuse in the lanes of Limerick, Irland. When he came to America as a young man, he brought a gargantuan appetite for what life had to offer -- and an equal drive to forget what it had delivered to him thus far. Alternately amused and aghast, but always fascinated, millions of readers followed McCourt through his twenties as he caroused his way all over the world, becoming a familiar face in movies and television, in New York and Hollywood, and in bars from Paris to Calcutta. In Singing My Him Song, McCourt tells us how he went from living the headlong and heedless life of a world-class drunk to becoming a sober, loving father and grandfather, still happily married after thirty-five years. We meet the woman who stood by his side all those years, watch as they build a family together, and listen as McCourt pursues a career of surprising successes and comic missteps. But while becoming the host of television and radio talk shows, appearing in dozens of movies and plays, and establishing himself as a well-loved regular on Ryan's Hope and One Life to Live, McCourt must also face the wreckage of his past. McCourt fights for the rights of his handicapped stepdaughter, exposing a scandal that still reverberates; helps steer his children away from the path he took; and finally comes to terms with the people and places that sent him careering along his misguided course. Then, just when it's time for the happy ending, he must gather all that he's learned, and the support of everyone he loves, to face and overcome the threat of cancer. Bawdy and funny, naked and moving, told in the same inimitable voice that left readers all over the world wondering what happened next, Malachy McCourt's Singing My Him Song tells as honest and entertaining a story as anyone could hope for.
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MELVILLE(Subject); Short, Bryan Cast by Means of Figures: Herman Melville's Rhetorical Development University of Massachusetts Press 1992 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1020714. ISBN #0870238124 / 9780870238123. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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MELVILLE(Subject); Short, Bryan Cast by Means of Figures: Herman Melville's Rhetorical Development University of Massachusetts Press 1992 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1020714. ISBN #0870238124 / 9780870238123. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
The power of Herman Melville's fiction owes much to his literary voice - a protean speaking presence brought to life by innovative and masterful rhetoric. In this book Bryan C. Short explores the evolution of that voice through analysis of Melville's works, the application of literary and rhetorical theory and biographical insights. Described by the author as a "rhetorical biography", "Cast by Means of Figures" presents Melville as a self-consciously experimental writer whose literary deveolpment was shaped more by rhetorical concerns than by philosophical, psychological or social influences. Short begins with an examination of Melville's early immersion in the theory of his day, especially that of the widely popular Scottish rhetorician Hugh Blair. He then analyses each of Melville's major fictional writings from "Typee" to "Billy Budd", tracing the structural force and interplay of Melville's key figurative devices. He shows how each work either builds on or departs dialectically from its predecessors in ways that explain the complex and shifting aesthetic of Melville's fiction. In the final chapter, a coda entitled "Tropics of Fiction", Short reviews theories of figurative language from classical times to the present and details his own theoretical synthesis.
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MENCKEN(Subject); Nolte, Wiliam H. H.L. Mencken, Literary Critic hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1077121. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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Michener, James A. The World Is My Home: A Memoir Random House Inc 1992 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164313. ISBN #0679401342 / 9780679401346. (keywords: MICHENER JAMES A ALBERT 1907) (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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MICHENER, JAMES A.(Subject); Michener, James A. The World Is My Home: A Memoir Random House 1991 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1138385. ISBN #0679401342 / 9780679401346. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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MICHENER, JAMES A.(Subject); Michener, James A. The World Is My Home: A Memoir Random House 1991 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1138385. ISBN #0679401342 / 9780679401346. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary JAMES MICHENER was "a Renaissance man, adventurous, inquisitive, energetic, unpretentious and unassuming, with an encyclopedic mind and a generous heart." Now, one of America's most beloved novelists gives us the story of his own remarkable life . . . . The New York Times Book Review From the Trade Paperback edition.
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MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT; (Subject); Milford, Nancy Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay Random House Trade Paperbacks 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1160151. ISBN #0375760814 / 9780375760815. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT; (Subject); Milford, Nancy Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay Random House Trade Paperbacks 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1160151. ISBN #0375760814 / 9780375760815. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz Age, Millay captivated the nation: She smoked in public, took many lovers men and women, single and married , flouted convention sensationally, and became the embodiment of the New Woman. Thirty years after her landmark biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, Nancy Milford returns with an iconic portrait of this passionate, fearless woman who obsessed America even as she tormented herself. Chosen by USA Today as one of the top ten books of the year, Savage Beauty is a triumph in the art of biography. Millay was an American original one of those rare characters, like Sylvia Plath and Ernest Hemingway, whose lives were even more dramatic than their ar
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