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Leonard Woolf: A Biography

9 best books like Leonard Woolf: A Biography (Victoria Glendinning): Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol), The Rise of Life on Earth, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith, Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith, Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson, David's Inferno: My Journey through the Dark Wood of Depression, A London Child of the 1870s, The Wise Virgins

Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol)
AuthorBreanne Fahs
ISBN1558618481
Too drastic, too crazy, too "out there," too early, too late, too damaged, too much—Valerie Solanas has been dismissed but never forgotten. She has become, unwittingly, a figurehead for women's unexpressed rage, and stands at the center of many worlds. She inhabited Andy Warhol's Factory scene,...
The Rise of Life on Earth
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0811212130
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's The Rise of Life on Earth is a memorable portrait of one of the "insulted and injured" of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, this short, lyric novel sketches...
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography
AuthorSam Tanenhaus
ISBN0375751459
Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad--including still-classified KGB dossiers--Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy...
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
AuthorPatricia Highsmith
ISBN0393327728
Best known for her novels (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train, A Suspension of Mercy, and others) Highsmith is an all-too-frequently forgotten master of the short story. These stories in this volume examine the dark soul of humanity in a deceptively simple voice that draws you in and won't...
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
AuthorAndrew Wilson
ISBN1582344116
The life of Patricia Highsmith was as secretive and unusual as that of many of the best-known characters who people her "peerlessly disturbing" thrillers and short stories. Yet even as her work has found new popularity in the last few years, the life of this famously elusive writer has remained a mystery.

For...
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
AuthorRobert Polito
ISBN0679733523
Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche,...
David's Inferno: My Journey through the Dark Wood of Depression
AuthorDavid Blistein
ISBN1578264294
David’s Inferno combines personal narrative and literary references with practical medical information, including descriptions of diagnoses and the wide variety of prescription drugs and therapies used to treat depression, mania, and mixed states. It also discusses the impact of depression...
A London Child of the 1870s
AuthorMolly Hughes
ISBN1903155517
The first in a series of three memoirs. Molly Hughes writes of her suburban London Victorian family in the 1870s. In this first book she describes her happy childhood, growing up with her 4 brothers. She describes outings in London and holidays with her mother's family in Cornwall. Hughes notes details...
The Wise Virgins
AuthorLeonard Woolf
ISBN0300126530
A new edition of Leonard Woolf’s satirical second novel, which offers an intriguing group portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf and other members of the Bloomsbury Group​

The Wise Virgins (1914), Leonard Woolf’s second novel, was published two years after the author’s marriage...
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