Literary Figures in 2000

Along This Way by Johnson, James Weldon

Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery by Kumin, Maxine

The Effects of Knut Hamsun on a Fresno Boy: Recollections and Short Essays by Soto, Gary

She Took to the Woods by Arlen, Alice

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

Note Found in a Bottle by Cheever, Susan

Letters to Helen by Thomas, Edward

Hemingway: The Final Years by Reynolds, Michael

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

Oscar Romero: Reflections on His Life and Writings by Dennis, Marie

Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map by Sutter, Barton

The Memoirs of Spider Jack Yates: And Other Strange Tales by Chimene, C. a.

Bumps in the Road: Things I Have Run Across by Van Deventer, Larry

William Shakespeare: A Popular Life by O'Connor, Garry

Yeats: The Man and the Masks by Ellmann, Richard

In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz by

My Life with Benjamin Franklin by Lopez, Claude-Anne

Frances Burney: A Literary Life by Thaddeus, J.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Lamott, Anne

Seagoing: Memoirs by

Reading and Writing: A Personal Account by Naipaul, V. S.

Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: The Apprentice Years 1924-1934 by Warren, Robert Penn

A Song for Mary: An Irish-American Memory by Smith, Dennis

God from Afar: Memoirs of a University Professor by Schiavone, James

The Intimate Journal by Sand, George

Running to the Mountain: A Midlife Adventure by Katz, Jon

The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D. (Volume IV) by Swift, Jonathan

Mikhail Bakhtin: An Aesthetic for Democracy by Hirschkop, Ken

Dylan Thomas the Biography by Ferris, Paul

The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters by Lesser, Wendy

You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles by Dillon, Millicent

Sade: A Biographical Essay by Bongie, Laurence L.

Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author by Lipking, Lawrence

Robert Frost: A Life by Parini, Jay

Plutarch's Lives: Exploring Virtue and Vice by Duff, Tim

The Letters of Matthew Arnold: Volume 4 by Arnold, Matthew

Pentimento by Hellman, Lillian

Hungary's Historical Legacy: Essays in Honor of Steven Béla Várdy by

Making History: The Biographical Narratives of Robert Penn Warren by Cullick, Jonathon S.

Lillian Hellman: The Image, the Woman by Wright, William

Reconciliation Road: A Family Odyssey by Marshall, John Douglas

Inside Peyton Place: The Life of Grace Metalious by Toth, Emily

Making an Exhibition of Myself: the autobiography of Peter Hall: The Autobiography of Peter Hall by Hall, Peter

Water from a Bucket: A Diary 1948-1957 by Ford, Charles Henri

Lifesaving: A Memoir by Barrington, Judith

Come Out the Wilderness: Memoir of a Black Woman Artist by Májozo, Estella Conwill

Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, and Dowson by Nelson, James G.

Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov by Schiff, Stacy

The Life and Rhymes of Ogden Nash by Stuart, David

Mishima: A Biography by Nathan, John

George Moore, 1852-1933 by Frazier, Adrian

Deformierte Lebensbilder: Erzählmodelle Der Nachkriegsautobiographie (1945--1960) by Friedrich, Hans-Edwin

Life of Henry Fielding by Paulson, Ronald

Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic by DeRogatis, Jim

First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors by Mandelbaum, Paul

A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood, Tenth Anniversary Edition by Rhodes, Richard

Clear Springs: A Family Story by Random House, Mason, Bobbie Ann

A Small Place by Kincaid, Jamaica

Who Killed Virginia Woolf?: A Psychobiography by Bond, Alma Halbert

Perspectives on Richard Ford by

Letters from Henry Miller to Hoki Tokuda Miller by

Fathers, Sons, & Brothers: The Men in My Family by Lott, Bret

Manhattan Memoir: American Girl/Manhattan, When I Was Young/Speaking with Strangers by Cantwell, Mary

All the Strange Hours: The Excavation of Life by Eiseley, Loren

Thom Gunn in Conversation with James Campbell by Campbell, James

1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir by Roiphe, Anne

Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life by Sounes, Howard

The European Tribe by Phillips, Caryl

Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe by Walsh, John Evangelist

Cleaving by Covington, Vicki, Covington, Dennis

Another Life: A Memoir of Other People by Korda, Michael

May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian by Raitt, Suzanne

The Private Diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai (Volume III) by Ranga Pillai, Ananda

A Pepys Anthology by Pepys, Samuel

Interviews/Entrevistas by Anzaldua, Gloria E.

Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author by Trelawny, Edward John

The Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron by Trelawny, Edward John

W.B. Yeats Twentieth Century Magus: An In-Depth Study of Yeat's Esoteric Practices and Beliefs, Including Excerpts from His Magical Diaries by Graf, Susan Johnston

Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) by Strong-Boag, Veronica, Gerson, Carole

Luis Leal: An Auto/Biography by García, Mario T.

Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years by Page, Norman

Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood by Foote, Horton

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bryson, Bill

J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Carpenter, Humphrey, Tolkien, J. R. R.

A Dialogue On Love by Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Rosegger Im Kontext by

Die Entstehungsgeschichte Des »Mann Ohne Eigenschaften« Von Robert Musil by Fanta, Walter

Remembering Randall: A Memoir of Poet, Critic, and Teacher Randall Jarrell by Jarrell, Mary Von Schrad

The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf's Last Years by Marder, Herbert

Selected Correspondence by de Staël, Anne Louise Germaine

Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist by Bernstein, Walter

Conversations with Salman Rushdie by

A Month of April Firsts by Delgado-Figueroa, J.

Scoundrel Time by Hellman, Lillian, Bates, Kathy

One Woman's Jihad: Nana Asma'u, Scholar and Scribe by Boyd, Jean, Mack, Beverly B.

The Little Locksmith by Butler Hathaway, Katharine

Ex Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer by Podhoretz, Norman

True at First Light by Hemingway, Ernest

Frances Burney: A Literary Life by Thaddeus, J.

Salinger: A Biography by Alexander, Paul

100 Most Popular Picture Book Authors and Illustrators: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies by McElmeel, Sharron

Set the Ploughshare Deep: Prairie Memoir by Murphy, Timothy, Murphy, Tim

Passionate Fictions/Eliza Haywood by

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 3: 1662 by Pepys, Samuel

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 2: 1661 by Pepys, Samuel

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 1: 1660 by Pepys, Samuel

Henry James: The Crooked Corridor by Stevenson, Elizabeth

Streaking at Harvard by Smith, Christopher E.

William Carlos Williams and James Laughlin: Selected Letters by Laughlin, James, Witemeyer, Hugh, Williams, William Carlos

The Prisoner's Wife by Bandele, Asha

Angelic Echoes: Hervé Guibert and Company by Sarkonak, Ralph

Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation by Santos, John Phillip

I Could Tell You Stories by Hampl, Patricia

The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima by Stokes, Henry Scott

A Preface to Lawrence by Salgado, Gamini

A Preface to Wordsworth: Revised Edition by Purkis, John

Hemingway's Paris and Pamplona, Then, and Now: A Personal Memoir by Burgess, Robert F.

North Toward Home by Morris, Willie

Tis: A Memoir by McCourt, Frank

The Letters of Christina Rossetti: 1843-1873 Volume 3 by Rossetti, Christina

Lo es (Tis) = Tis by McCourt, Frank

Whitman in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Own Life, Drawn from Recollections, Memoirs, and Interviews by Friends and Associates by

In Fellowship: A book of remembrance for Brenda Walker by

Growing Up in Rural Louisiana: A Memoir by Mullen-Martin, Ann

Edgar Allen Poe: His Life and Legacy by Meyers, Jeffrey

Alexander Pope: Selected Letters by Pope, Alexander

The Raymond Tallis Reader by Tallis, R.

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 by Marks, Leo

Out of Place: A Memoir by Said, Edward W.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Pepys, Samuel

George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher by Greenspan, Ezra

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1664 by Pepys, Samuel

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1665 by Pepys, Samuel

Mary Shelley: A Literary Life by Na, Na

Firebird: A Memoir by Doty, Mark

Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats by Maddox, Brenda

Ross and Tom: Two American Tragedies by Leggett, John

The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography by Andersen, Hans Christian

The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin by Dalos, György

Katherine Mansfield: A Literary Life by Smith, Angela

Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life by Hopkins, L.

The Journals of George Eliot by Eliot, George

Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer by Cofer, Judith Ortiz

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning: Interviews and Recollections by Na, Na

Ten Years of Exile by de Staël, Germaine

Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works by Bloomfield, Susanne George

Edward Albee: A Singular Journey by Gussow, Mel

Blue House by Dao, Bei

Fox at the Wood's Edge: A Biography of Loren Eiseley by Christianson, Gale E.

No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett & Alan Schneider by Beckett, Samuel, Schneider, Alan

Katherine Mansfield: A Literary Life by Smith, Angela

Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius by Belford, Barbara

Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life by Hopkins, L.

A Book of Reasons by Vernon, John

Playing Away: Roman Holidays and Other Mediterranean Encounters by Mewshaw, Michael

My Movie Business: A Memoir by Irving, John

Brendan Behan: A Life by O'Sullivan, Michael

Ernest Hemingway: A Reconsideration by Young, Philip

Susan Glaspell: A Critical Biography by Ozieblo, Barbara

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life by Hertog, Susan

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Plath, Sylvia

S.T. Coleridge: Interviews and Recollections by

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Thurman, Judith

To a Distant Island by McConkey, James

Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire by Bayley, John

The Great Fair by Aleichem, Sholem

Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 2: 1957-1969 by Kerouac, Jack

Willa Cather Living: A Personal Record by Lewis, Edith

The Marquis de Sade: A Life by Schaeffer, Neil

My Century by Grass, Günter

Family Matters: Sam, Jennie, and the Kids by Bernstein, Burton

No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the Century by Hahn, Emily

Selected Non-Fictions by Borges, Jorge Luis

The Slate Diaries by Kinsley, Michael

And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969- by Wiesel, Elie

The Eyes of the Heart: A Memoir of the Lost and Found by Buechner, Frederick

Past Forgetting: My Memory Lost and Found by Robinson, Jill

My Cat Spit McGee by Morris, Willie

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Pepys Anthology by Pepys, Samuel

Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries by Ford, Mark

Starting from Home: A Writer's Beginnings by Meltzer, Milton

The Noel Coward Diaries by

Francis Ledwidge: Song of the Blackbird by Olson, Elizabeth Cassidy

Enchanted Evening: Volume III of the Autobiography of M. M. Kaye by Kaye, M. M.

Thinking of Home: William Faulkner's Letters to His Mother and Father, 1918-1925 by Faulkner, William

The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth by Holm, Bill

The Critical Reception of Emerson: Unsettling All Things by Wider, Sarah Ann

When Prophecy Still Had a Voice: The Letters of Thomas Merton & Robert Lax by

Naipaul's Truth: The Making of a Writer by Feder, Lillian

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 8: 1667 by Pepys, Samuel

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 9: 1668-1669 by Pepys, Samuel

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 7: 1666 by Pepys, Samuel

Natalia Ginzburg: A Voice of the Twentieth Century by

The Life and Work of Gunter Grass: Literature, History, Politics by Preece, J.

Norma Fox Mazer: A Writer's World by Reed, Arthea J. S.

Thomas Morton of "Merrymount": The Life and Renaissance of an Early American Poet by Dempsey, Jack

The Years with Ross by Thurber, James

Rudyard Kipling: A Life by Ricketts, Harry