New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1985. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing. More

Philadelphia: Running Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Collects the quotations of great writers on such topics as books, characters, editors, genres, and inspiration. More

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. Seventh Edition. Paperback. Dewey. Bellow. Strauss. Friedman. The University of Chicago has been the home of some of the most important thinkers of the modern age. But perhaps no name has been spoken with more respect than Turabian. The dissertation secretary at Chicago... More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. In an intimate and intriguing memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove recounts his lifelong love affair with books, from his largely "bookless" boyhood and discovery of literature as a young man, to the evolution of his writing career and... More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. First Paperback Edition, Second Printing. Rare signed edition. Whether talking about her own writing, interpreting the works of others, or giving us a window on the world that "we in South Africa are attempting to reconstruct," Nadine Gordimer has much to tell us about the... More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990. First Edition (presumed), Second Printing. Softcover. Challenging the widely-held belief that autobiography is a unique product of the West, Pei-yi Wu demonstrates that writing about the self did thrive in one non-Western civilization. The pages of this first full-length treatment of Chinese autobiography teem... More

Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1979. David Pelham (cover design). Revised Second Edition. Reprint. Paperback. A Pelican Book. Revised by Sir Bruce Fraser. When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to the proper use of English for the Civil... More

New York: Scribner, 2000. 20th Printing. Trade paperback. There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever. Described in the Guardian as 'the most remarkable storyteller in modern American literature', Stephen King writes books that draw you in and are impossible to... More

New York: Viking, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books - including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate - have catapulted him into... More

Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1991. Eleventh Printing. Softcover. This classic work covers all of the major movements in literary studies in this century. Noted for its clear, engaging style and unpretentious treatment, Literary Theory has become the introduction of choice for anyone interested in learning about the world... More

New York: New York Review Books, 1975. Reprint. Paperback. On Being Blue is a book about everything blue—sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things—and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do. Gass writes..... More