Literary Figures in 1998

Anything for a Laugh: Memoirs by Nicol, Eric

Tolstoy on the Couch: Misogyny, Masochism and the Absent Mother by Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel

The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson by

The Morning the Sun Went Down by Wilson, Darryl Babe

The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Critical Biography by Ashton, Rosemary

Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic by Fussell, Paul

Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by Conn, Peter

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Good Men and Great by Hubbard, Fra Elbert

Conversations with Joseph Brodsky: A Poets Journey Through the Twentieth Century by Volkov, Solomon

Life of Emanuel Swedenborg together with A Brief Synopsis of His Writings both Philosophical and Theosophical by White, William

For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again by Tremblay, Michel

Banana Boots by Fennario, David

Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History by Cole, Phyllis

Peter Shaffer: Theatre and Drama by Macmurraugh-Kavanagh, Madeleine

Walker Percy, the Last Catholic Novelist by Quinlan, Kieran

Literature or Life by Semprun, Jorge

The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child by Karcher, Carolyn L.

Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters by Perloff, Marjorie

Matthew Arnold: A Literary Life by Machann, C.

Selected Letters of Hamlin Garland by Garland, Hamlin

A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles by Dillon, Millicent

A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence by Mack, John E.

Andre and Oscar: The Literary Friendship of Andre Gide and Oscar Wilde by Fryer, Jonathan

Irving Howe--Socialist, Critic, Jew by Alexander, Edward

C. S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer, and Mentor by Adey, Lionel

The Shadows of Heaven: Gurdjieff and Toomer by Taylor, Paul Beekman

Letters Between Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murray by Hankin, Cherry

The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy by Foote, Shelby

Chekhov: The Hidden Ground by Callow, Philip

Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba: The Travels of Santa Cruz Y Montalvo, Condesa de Merlin by Rodenas, Adriana Mendez

The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Plath, Sylvia

An Edgar Allan Poe Chronology by Hammond, J.

Noel Coward: A Biography by Hoare, Philip

Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion by Stern, Madeline B., Rostenberg, Leona

Hemingway: The 1930s by Reynolds, Michael

The Young Hemingway by Reynolds, Michael

The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Editionvolume 9: 1859-1861 by Dickens, Charles

Writing the Lives of Writers by

Shame by Ernaux, Annie

My Generation Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics by Hazlett, John

Charlotte Smith by Fletcher, Loraine

Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography by Fletcher, Loraine

May Sarton: Biography by Peters, Margot

Roland Barthes, Phenomenon and Myth: An Intellectual Biography by Stafford, Andrew

Arnold Wesker: A Casebook by

Tolstoy on the Couch: Misogyny, Masochism and the Absent Mother by Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel

Writing the Lives of Writers by

A Backward Glance: An Autobiography by Wharton, Edith

The Life of Emily Dickinson by Sewall, Richard B.

Southern Selves: From Mark Twain and Eudora Welty to Maya Angelou and Kaye Gibbons A Collection of Autobiographical Writing by Watkins, James

The Abridged Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays by Carruth, Hayden

Tolstoy on the Couch: Misogyny, Masochism, and the Absent Mother by Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel

The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965 by Powell, Dawn

Memoirs of a Beatnik by Di Prima, Diane

Close to the Bone: Memoirs of Hurt, Rage, and Desire by

Jack London: A Life by Kershaw, Alex

Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years by Page, Norman

A Hoosier Holiday by Dreiser, Theodore

Conversations of Goethe by Eckermann, Johann Peter

How Reading Changed My Life by Quindlen, Anna

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Winchester, Simon

Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by Coetzee, J. M.

Mikhail Bulgakov: The Early Years by Haber, Edythe C.

Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962 by Lessing, Doris

Burning the Days: Recollection (Ambassador Book Awards) by Salter, James

Evelyn Underhill: Artist of Infinite Life by Greene, Dana

Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson by Dickinson, Emily

Man from Babel by Jolas, Eugene

Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years by Page, Norman

Life of Goethe by Williams, John R.

Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith by Buckley, William F., Jr.

Kate Chopin S Private Papers by

Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History by Scruggs, Charles, Vandemarr, Lee

The Letters of Matthew Arnold: Volume 5 by Arnold, Matthew

Golden Afternoon by Kaye, M. M.

The Assertive Woman in Zora Neale Hurston's Fiction, Folklore, and Drama by Peters, Pearlie Mae Fisher

Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations by

Boris Pasternak: Volume 2, 1928-1960: A Literary Biography by Barnes, Christopher

Dickens: A Biography by Kaplan, Fred

Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career by Plimpton, George

Diaries of a Young Poet by Rilke, Rainer Maria

The Attic: Memoir of a Chinese Landlord's Son by Cao, Guanlong

Jane Austen: A Life by Nokes, David

The Actuality of Walter Benjamin by

Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet by Bethea, David M.

Ted Hughes by Sagar, Keith

The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose by Kolmerten, Carol

Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990 by Klingenstein, Susanne

Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings by Carter, Angela

The Hemingway Women by Kert, Bernice

Wilfred Owen: Selected Letters by Owen, Wilfred

The Making of Sir Philip Sidney by Berry, Edward

Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners by Brennan, Elizabeth A., Clarage, Elizabeth C.

The Friends of Joe Gilmore by Saxon, Lyle

Ayn Rand Cult by Walker, Jeff

Sentiment & Celebrity: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Fame by Baker, Thomas N.