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 | A Circular Journey ISBN: 9780823247561 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Barolini Helen 1925–; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Italian American women -- Intellectual life; American literature -- Italian influences; Italian Americans in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A Community of Writers: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers' Workshop ISBN: 9781587292767 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Engle Paul 1908–1991 -- Friends and associates; Creative writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Iowa -- History -- 20th century; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Authorship; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A Daring Life ISBN: 9781617032974 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.; Authors American; ■ Detailed Information | |
| A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty ISBN: 9781617032974 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Welty Eudora 1909–2001; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings ISBN: 9780520959637 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Twain Mark 1835–1910 -- Family; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation ISBN: 9781469602271 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography; African American abolitionists -- Biography; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography; Autobiography; Autobiography -- African American authors; Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States; Antislavery movemen; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Albion Fellows Bacon: Indiana's Municipal Housekeeper ISBN: 9780253028563 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Indiana University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Bacon Albion Fellows 1865; Women social reformers -- Indiana -- Biography; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Indiana -- Social life and customs; Indiana -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Alcott in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her LIfe, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates ISBN: 9781587295980 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Alcott Louisa May 1832–1888; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Alex and the Hobo: A Chicano Life and Story ISBN: 9780292797857 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Texas Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Taylor José Inez 1937–; Taylor José Inez 1937– -- Settings; Mexican Americans -- Colorado -- Antonito -- Biography; Mexican American authors -- Colorado -- Antonito -- Biography; Political activists -- Colorado -- Antonito -- Biography; Labor movement; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Alfred Bester ISBN: 9780252099076 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Bester Alfred -- Criticism and interpretation; Science fiction American -- History and criticism; Bester Alfred; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
| Alfred Bester ISBN: 9780252099076 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy.; Authors American; Science fiction American; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | American Autobiography after 9/11 ISBN: 9780299310332 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Wisconsin Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Biography as a literary form.; Authors American; American prose literature; Autobiography.; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | American Lives : Sleep in Me ISBN: 9780803233553 Platform/Publisher: PQ ebrary / University of Nebraska Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a time Subjects: Authors American : 21st century : Biography.; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon ISBN: 9780813171913 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Dixon Thomas 1864-1946; Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Dixon Thomas 1864-1946 -- Film and video adaptations; Dixon Thomas 1864-1946 -- Political and social views; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; African; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century ISBN: 9780820346236 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Douglas Marjory Stoneman; Conservationists -- Florida -- Biography; Feminists -- United States -- Biography; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Nature conservation -- Florida -- Everglades -- History; Environmental degradation -- Florida --; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | An Infuriating American: The Incendiary Arts of H. L. Mencken ISBN: 9781609383091 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Mencken H. L. (Henry Louis) 1880–1956; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Journalists -- United States -- Biography; Editors -- United States -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | And No Birds Sing ISBN: 9781563686696 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Gallaudet University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.; Deaf women; Women authors American; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Anthropologies: A Family Memoir ISBN: 9781609380380 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Authors American -- 21st century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents ISBN: 9781496217233 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Authors American -- Family relationships; Parent and child -- United States; Parenting -- Psychological aspects -- United States; Identity (Psychology) -- United States; Self; Authors American -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | At the End of the Road: Jack Kerouac in Mexico ISBN: 9781452942179 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Kerouac Jack 1922–1969 -- Travel -- Mexico; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Americans -- Mexico -- Biography; Beat generation -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Author Under Sail ISBN: 9780803256828 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.; Realism in literature; Imagination in literature.; Authors American; Authors American; ■ Detailed Information | |
| Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902 ISBN: 9780803256828 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: London Jack 1876–1916; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; London Jack 1876–1916 -- Criticism and interpretation; Imagination in literature; Realism in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties ISBN: 9781604737356 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American prose literature -- Afro-American authors -- History and criticism; Afro-American women political activists -- Biography -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Afro-Americans -- Biography --; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition ISBN: 9780520946996 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Twain Mark 1835–1910; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition ISBN: 9780520956513 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Twain Mark 1835–1910; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition ISBN: 9780520961869 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Twain Mark 1835–1910; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition ISBN: 9780520952447 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Twain Mark 1835–1910; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Because You Have To: A Writing Life ISBN: 9780268079840 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Notre Dame Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Frank Joan 1949–; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Becoming Ray Bradbury ISBN: 9780252093357 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Bradbury Ray 1920–; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Science fiction American -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming ISBN: 9780870819988 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Colorado Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Wyoming -- Description and travel; Outdoor life -- Wyoming; Mountaineering -- Wyoming; Holdsworth Kevin -- Travel -- Wyoming; Wyoming -- History Local; Holdsworth Kevin -- Homes and haunts -- Wyoming; Authors American -- Wyoming -- Biography; Wyoming; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Building Their Own Waldos ISBN: 9781587299636 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Biography as a literary form.; American prose literature; Authors American; ■ Detailed Information | |
| Building Their Own Waldos: Emerson’s First Biographers and the Politics of Life-Writing in the Gilded Age ISBN: 9781587299636 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803–1882; Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803–1882 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History; Authors American -- Biography -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- History and criticism; Biography as a literary form; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Captain Billy's Troopers ISBN: 9780817388751 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / The University of Alabama Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcoholism.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.; Hydrocephalus.; Storytelling; Alcoholism; Authors American; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Charlotte Perkins Gilman : A Biography ISBN: 9780804774192 Platform/Publisher: PQ ebrary / Stanford University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a time Subjects: Women authors American : 19th century : Biography.; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Chiang Yee: The Silent Traveller from the East--A Cultural Biography ISBN: 9780813549279 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Chiang Yee 1903–1977; Chinese American authors -- Biography; Chinese American artists -- Biography; Chinese -- United States -- Biography; Chinese -- England -- Biography; Asian diaspora; Chinese in Literature; China -- In literature; Exiles’ writings ; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Chronicling Trauma: Journalists and Writers on Violence and Loss ISBN: 9780252093432 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Violence -- Press coverage; Psychic trauma -- Press coverage; War correspondents -- Mental health; Authors American -- Psychology; Violence in literature; Psychic trauma in literature; Journalists -- United States -- Biography; Journalists -- Great Brita; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact: Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow ISBN: 9780820337029 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Social conditions -- Historiography; African Americans -- Segregation -- Historiography; Race discrimination -- United States -- Historiography; Autobiography -- African American authors; African Americans -- Biography -- History and; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Confessions of a Left-Handed Man: An Artist's Memoir ISBN: 9781609380571 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Selgin Peter; Authors American -- 21st century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Connecting Histories ISBN: 9781496810595 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American.; History in literature.; Memory in literature.; Psychic trauma in literature.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Authors Ca; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Conversations with the Conroys ISBN: 9781611176322 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of South Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.; Families; Authors American; Authors American; Authors American; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Dancing with Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas ISBN: 9780520938540 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Islas Arturo 1938–; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; English teachers -- United States -- Biography; Stanford University -- Faculty -- Biography; Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life; Mexican American authors -- Biography; Mexican Ameri; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years ISBN: 9780520940376 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Twain Mark 1835–1910 -- Last years; Twain Mark 1835–1910 -- Relations with private secretaries; Twain Mark 1835–1910 -- Relations with women; Twain Mark 1835–1910 -- Finance Personal; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; Lyon Isabel ; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic ISBN: 9780812201420 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Carson Ann Baker; Clarke Mary fl. 1815–1838; Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography; Female offenders -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography; Women authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Dorothy West's Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color ISBN: 9780813552248 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: West Dorothy 1907–1998; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; African American authors -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Down the Nights and Down the Days: Eugene O'Neill's Catholic Sensibility ISBN: 9780268077525 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Notre Dame Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: O’Neill Eugene 1888–1953; American drama -- Catholic authors -- History and criticism; Dramatists American -- 20th century -- Biography; Drama -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; O’Neill Eugene 1888–1953 -- Religion; Catholics -- United States -- B; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Dying in Character: Memoirs on the End of Life ISBN: 9781613762158 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Massachusetts Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Authors American -- Biography -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Critically ill -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism; Terminally ill -- United States -- Biography -- History and; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism ISBN: 9780813055923 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Florida Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Wharton Edith 1862–1937; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Cosmopolitanism; Women intellectuals -- United States -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Emerson in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, F ISBN: 9781587294327 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803–1882; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; Transcendentalists (New England) -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Emerson: The Mind on Fire ISBN: 9780520918375 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803–1882 -- Biography; Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803–1882 -- Knowledge and learning; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Emerson: The Roots of Prophecy ISBN: 9781400860609 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803–1882; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; Prophecies in literature; ■ Detailed Information |