Jane Juska'Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope...

Janny Scott A major publishing an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama--his mother.Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little...

Jaycee Dugard   On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her...

Amoz Oz   Discover Amos Oz's most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed...

Patrick Leigh Fermor In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot—from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is...

Kinta Beevor"Wonderful...I fell immediately into her world, and was sorry when I reached the end." --Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun The sparkling memoir of an idyllic, bohemian...

Abram Tertz Andrei Sinyavsky, who writes under the pseudonym of Abram Tertz, has been called by Saul Bellow "one of the most intelligent, most original, and most brilliant of contemporary...

Bill BrysonA Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail(Bryson and Katz #2)Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his...

Joan Anderson Shortly after arriving on Cape Cod to spend a year by herself, Joan Anderson's chance encounter with a wise, playful, and astonishing woman helped her usher in the...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates ‘My husband died, my life collapsed.’On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the...

Virginia Woolf An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, "A Writer's Diary" was drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period...

VS NaipaulIn 'A Writer's People', V.S. Naipaul brings unmatched clarity and rich experience to an exploration of the ways we think, see and feel.