Literary Figures in 1997

The Same River Twice by Walker, Alice

Louis Massignon: The Crucible of Compassion by Gude, Mary Louise

My Dear Mother: Stormy Boastful, and Tender Letters by Distinguished Sons--From Dostoevsky to Elvis by Gordon, Karen Elizabeth

The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence by Lawrence, D. H.

The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography by Roth, Philip

Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Thurman, Judith

Mark Twain in the Company of Women by Trombley, Laura E. Skandera

Letters of Ayn Rand by Rand, Ayn

Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter by Souhami, Diana

Wild Steps of Heaven by Villasenor, Victor

The Enigmatic Christina Stead: A Provocative Re-Reading by Petersen, Teresa

In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) by Barnes, Kim

Bambi and Me by Tremblay, Michel

Bloomsbury Recalled by Bell, Quentin

The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones by Baraka, Amiri

Sylvia Plath by

Seeing in the Dark: The Poetry of Phyllis Webb by Butling, Pauline

Cousins: A Memoir by Fugard, Athol

Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams by Leverich, Lyle

Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of Robert Benchley by Altman, Billy

Travels with Charley in Search of America by Steinbeck, John

Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington by Pilkington, Laetitia

Roy Vernon Sowers: A Life in Rare Books by Mason, Roger Burford

A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin by Kazin, Alfred

Journal of Rehearsals: A Memoir by Wallace Fowlie by Fowlie, Wallace

Emily Dickinson: Personae and Performance by Phillips, Elizabeth

The World of Emily Dickinson by Longsworth, Polly

A Hoosier Holiday by Dreiser, Theodore

John Muir: Nature Writings (Loa #92): The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Ess by Muir, John

The Letters of Christina Rossetti: 1843-1873 Volume 1 by Rossetti, Christina

William and Henry James: Selected Letters by James, William

The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search for Her Father by Gordon, Mary

Gertrude Stein Remembered by

The Several Lives of Chester Himes by Fabre, Michel, Margolies, Edward

At Eighty-Two: A Journal by Sarton, May

Only Child by O'Connor, Frank

The Naked Civil Servant by Crisp, Quentin

The Heart of a Woman by Angelou, Maya

On the Trail of Flora Thompson by Smith, John Owen

History of My Life by Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt

First Comes Love: A Memoir by Winik, Marion

Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books by Schwartz, Lynne Sharon

Alex Posey: Creek Poet, Journalist, and Humorist by Littlefield, Daniel F., Jr.

May Sarton by Sarton, May

The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the School of Anti-Slavery, 1840 to 1866 Volume 1 by

The Writer on Her Work: New Essays in New Territory by

Walter Benjamin: An Intellectual Biography by Witte, Bernd

Leon Forrest: Introductions and Interpretations by Cawelti, John G.

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir by Broyard, Anatole

Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work by Berry, Wendell

The Letters of Matthew Arnold: Volume 2 by Arnold, Matthew

Invisible Allies by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Hélène Cixous, Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing by Calle-Gruber, Mireille, Cixous, Hélène

Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 5: 1872-1873 Volume 9 by Twain, Mark

Yeats and Women by Toomey, Deirdre

An Evelyn Waugh Chronology by Page, N.

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 5: Journal, Volume 5: 1852-1853. by Thoreau, Henry David

The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career by Montgomery, Lucy Maud

Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel by Diment, Galya

Emma Lazarus in Her World: Life and Letters by Young, Bette Roth

The Kagero Diary: A Woman's Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan Volume 19 by

Aksharon Ke Saye by Amrita, Pritam

Half a Life: A Memoir by Ciment, Jill

My Dark Places: A True Crime Autobiography by Ellroy, James

Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James & William Dean Howells by Anesko, Michael

Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood, Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture by Leff, Leonard J.

Rudyard Kipling in Vermont: Birthplace of the Jungle Books by Murray, Stuart

Remembering James Agee by

Kindness of Strangers PB by Spoto, Donald

Of Fiction and Faith: Twelve American Writers Talk about Their Vision and Work by Brown, Dale

Portrait of My Body: A Memoir in Essays by Lopate, Phillip

Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of American (Ameri)Ca's Fall from Grace by Beers, David

Wystan and Chester: A Personal Memoir of W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman by Clark, Thekla

Boys Like Us by Merla, Patrick, Hetrick Martin Inst

The Journals of Louisa May Alcott by Alcott, Louisa May

Life in a Day by Grumbach, Doris

The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors by Drew, Bernard a.

I'll Always Have Paris: A Memoir (Large Print Edition) by Buchwald, Art

Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by Hooks, Bell

William Faulkner: His Life and Work by Minter, David

Chinua Achebe: A Biography by Ezenwa-Ohaeto

The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume II: Selections, 1934-1944 by Du Bois, W. E. B.

The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume I: Selections, 1877-1934 Volume 1 by Du Bois, W. E. B.

The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume III: Selections, 1944-1963 by Du Bois, W. E. B.

Family: American Writers Remember Their Own by Fiffer, Sharon Sloan

Buckskin and Broadcloth: A Celebration of E. Pauline Johnson -- Tekahionwake, 1861-1913 by Johnston, Sheila M. F.

Robert Worth Bingham & the Southern Mystique: From the Old South to the New South and Beyond by Ellis

Down These Mean Streets: A Memoir by Thomas, Piri

Lemady: Episodes of a Writer's Life by Roberts, Keith

Recovering: A Journal by Sarton, May

The End of the Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton and the First World War by Price, A.

Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman by

Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography by Quinn, Arthur Hobson

To Live in the Center of the Moment: Literary Autobiographies of Aging by Waxman, Barbara Frey

Echoes of an Autobiography by Mahfouz, Naguib

The Beast 666: The Life of Aleister Crowley by Symonds, John

The Memoirs of Nahum N. Glatzer by