BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
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- Where the Jews aren't, the sad and absurd story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish autonomous region, Masha Gessen
- A few seconds of radiant filmstrip, a memoir of seventh grade, Kevin Brockmeier
- Scratch, writers, money, and the art of making a living, edited by Manjula Martin
- Over the hills and far away, the life of Beatrix Potter, Matthew Dennison
- The Trip to Echo Spring, on Writers and Drinking, Olivia Laing
- Charlotte Brontë, a fiery heart, Claire Harman
- The brothers Vonnegut, science and fiction in the house of magic, Ginger Strand
- William Shakespeare, Tim Cooke
- Mockingbird, a portrait of Harper Lee : from Scout to Go set a watchman, Charles J. Shields
- From Germany to Germany, journal of the year, 1990, Günter Grass ; translated from the German by Krishna Winston
- Elizabeth Bishop, a miracle for breakfast, Megan Marshall
- In the great green room, the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown, Amy Gary
- Nabokov in America, on the road to Lolita, Robert Roper
- Evelyn Waugh, a life revisited, Philip Eade
- Simon, the genius in my basement, Alexander Masters
- I only read it for the cartoons, the New Yorker's most brilliantly twisted artists, Richard Gehr
- Careless people, murder, mayhem, and the invention of The Great Gatsby, Sarah Churchwell
- Publishing, a writer's memoir, Gail Godwin ; illustrations by Frances Halsband
- Hourglass, time, memory, marriage, Dani Shapiro
- Belle, the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice, Paula Byrne
- Chasing the last laugh, Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour, Richard Zacks
- Maeve Binchy, the biography, Piers Dudgeon
- Churchill and Orwell, the fight for freedom, by Thomas E. Ricks
- Sympathy for the devil, four decades of friendship with Gore Vidal, Michael Mewshaw
- Man in Profile, Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker, Thomas Kunkel
- A slip of the keyboard, collected nonfiction, Terry Pratchett
- At the existentialist café, freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others, Sarah Bakewell
- Something in the blood, the untold story of Bram Stoker, the man who wrote Dracula, David J. Skal
- Getting schooled, the reeducation of an American teacher, Garret Keizer
- Eugene O'Neill, a life in four acts, Robert M. Dowling
- The white road, journey into an obsession, Edmund de Waal
- The Year of Lear, Shakespeare in 1606, James Shapiro
- My generation, collected nonfiction, William Styron ; edited by James L. W. West III ; foreword by Tom Brokaw
- The world of Raymond Chandler, in his own words, edited by Barry Day
- Stieg Larsson, the real story of the man who played with fire, Jan-Erik Pettersson ; translated from the Swedish by Tom Geddes
- At home with Jane Austen, Kim Wilson
- The mockingbird next door, life with Harper Lee, Marja Mills
- Henry David Thoreau, a life, Laura Dassow Walls
- My history, a memoir of growing up, Antonia Fraser
- On Sunset, a memoir, by Kathryn Harrison
- Sister novelists, the trailblazing Porter sisters, who paved the way for Austen and the Brontës, Devoney Looser
- Take this man, a memoir, Brando Skyhorse
- If, the untold story of Kipling's American years, Christopher Benfey
- The fellowship, the literary lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski
- By the book, writers on literature and the literary life from the New York Times Book Review, edited and with an introduction by Pamela Paul ; foreword by Scott Turow ; illustrations by Jillian Tamaki
- Empire of self, a life of Gore Vidal, Jay Parini
- A house full of daughters, a memoir of seven generations, Juliet Nicolson
- Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison!, it seemed like a good idea at the time, Harry Harrison
- Joy, poet, seeker, and the woman who captivated C. S. Lewis, Abigail Santamaria
- Hemingway in love, his own story : a memoir, by A.E. Hotchner