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 about One Writer's Beginnings
Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, Ltd, 1973. Reprint. Softcover. More about Beginner's Translation Handbook
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. A Midland Book. # MB-147 In a time when the influences of sociology, statistical evidence, and current political controversies are enlivening the field of history and forcing re-evaluation of old approaches, J.H. Hexter focuses attention on an aspect so basic... More about Doing History
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2005. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Smiley explores–as no novelist has before her–the unparalleled intimacy of reading, why a novel succeeds (or doesn’t), and how the novel has changed over time. She describes a novelist as “right on the cusp between someone who knows everything..... More about 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
Philadelphia: Running Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Collects the quotations of great writers on such topics as books, characters, editors, genres, and inspiration. More about Writers On Writing
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. Sixth Edition. Paperback. More about A Manual for Writers
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. Sixth Edition. Paperback. More about A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
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 about Books: A Memoir
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 about Writing and Being (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1994
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively consideration of writings that have "made things happen" in the world, works that... More about Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
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 about The Confucian's Progress: Autobiographical Writings in Traditional China
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Jiom McLean. First Edition. Hardcover. More about The Bride of Anguished English: A Bonus of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches, and Boo-Boos
Hoboken, New Jersey: Melville House Publishing, 2007. Carol Haynes (cover design). First Melville House Printing. Paperback. The twenty-sixth book of fiction by the award-winning Baltimore writer sets up a situation that the protagonist-Meyer, a prolific fiction writer from Baltimore-finds preposterous: writer's block. After numerous books, Meyer has never experienced writer's... More about Meyer
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 about On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 2000. First Paperback Edition. Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’s critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work. More about On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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 about The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human nature
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 about Literary Theory: An Introduction
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 about On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
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