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- --where love begins
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- 7 tattoos : a memoir in the flesh
- A Little House sampler
- A Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings reader
- A William Maxwell portrait : memories and appreciations
- A backward glance
- A boy named Shel : the life & times of Shel Silverstein
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A bridge of childhood : Truman Capote's southern years
- A choice of days : essays from happy days, newspaper days, and heathen days
- A choice of weapons
- A circle of quiet
- A circle of quiet
- A devil in paradise
- A drinking life : a memoir
- A great and glorious romance : the story of Carl Sandburg and Lilian Steichen
- A guide to Hemingway's Paris
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A little original sin : the life and work of Jane Bowles
- A long way from home : Claude McKay ; introduction by St. Clair Drake
- A man without a country
- A mannered grace : the life of Laura (Riding) Jackson
- A mysterious something in the light : the life of Raymond Chandler
- A prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A private history of awe
- A ring of conspirators : Henry James and his literary circle, 1895-1915
- A short autobiography
- A son of the middle border
- A song flung up to heaven
- A song flung up to heaven
- A song flung up to heaven
- A step from death : a memoir
- A three dog life
- A ticket to the circus : a memoir
- A tragic honesty : the life and work of Richard Yates
- A voice from old New York : a memoir of my youth
- A woman of uncertain character : the amorous and radical adventures of my mother Jennie (who always wanted to be a respectable Jewish mom) by her bastard son
- A world of light
- About Alice
- About Alice
- About this life : journeys on the threshold of memory
- About women : conversations between a writer and a painter
- Acid Christ : Ken Kesey, LSD and the politics of ecstasy
- Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticisms
- Alice Walker
- Alice Walker : a life
- All God's children need traveling shoes
- All my mothers and fathers : a memoir
- All tomorrow's parties : a memoir
- Almost a family : a memoir
- Along this way : the autobiography of James Weldon Johnson
- Along this way : the autobiography of James Weldon Johnson ; introduction by Sondra K. Wilson
- American Rose : a nation laid bare : the life and times of Gypsy Rose Lee
- American racist : the life and films of Thomas Dixon
- American rose : a nation laid bare : the life and times of Gypsy Rose Lee
- An American childhood
- An Everglades providence : Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American environmental century
- An ethnic at large : a memoir of America in the thirties and forties
- An extravagant hunger : the passionate years of M.F.K. Fisher
- And you know you should be glad : [a true story of lifelong friendship]
- And you know you should be glad : a true story of lifelong friendship
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh : a gift for life
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh : first lady of the air
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh : her life
- Apprenticed to Venus : my secret life with Anaïs Nin
- Ardent spirits : leaving home, coming back
- As I knew him : My dad, Rod Serling
- At the end of Ridge Road
- Atticus Finch: the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Autobiography of a wardrobe
- Avi
- Backing into forward : a memoir
- Baldwin's Harlem : a biography of James Baldwin
- Batfishing in the rainforest : strange tales of travel & fishing
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Ray Bradbury
- Being red
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Biography of American author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
- Black boy
- Black boy (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth
- Black boy (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth
- Black boy : (American hunger)
- Bobbed hair and bathtub gin : writers running wild in the Twenties
- Bohemia : where art, angst, love, and strong coffee meet
- Breath : a lifetime in the rhythm of an iron lung : a memoir
- Brother, I'm dying
- Brother, I'm dying
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- Bukowski : a life
- Burro genius : a memoir
- Capirotada : a Nogales memoir
- Capote : a biography
- Capote : a biography
- Carl Dann's vicissitudes and casathrophics
- Charles Bukowski : locked in the arms of a crazy life
- Cheever : a life
- Chosen forever : a memoir
- Christmas remembered
- City boy : my life in New York during the 1960s and '70s
- City kid : a writer's memoir of ghetto life and post-soul success
- Claude McKay : a black poet's struggle for identity
- Close to my heart : an autobiography
- Compass points : how I lived
- Confessions of a failed Southern lady
- Cool, calm & contentious
- Cotton field of dreams : a memoir
- Country editor's boy
- Crazy Loco love
- Critic in love : a romantic biography of Edmund Wilson
- Cruising state : growing up in southern California
- Dad's maybe book
- Dancing at Ciro's : a family's love, loss, and scandal on the Sunset Strip
- Dangerous intimacy : the untold story of Mark Twain's final years
- Dangerous intimacy : the untold story of Mark Twain's final years
- Daring : my passages : a memoir
- Dashiell Hammett : a daughter remembers
- Dashiell Hammett : man of mystery
- Days that were
- Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country
- Deep creek : finding hope in the high country
- Desolate angel : Jack Kerouac, the Beat generation, and America
- Desolate angel : Jack Kerouac, the Beat generation, and America
- Devils, lusts and strange desires : the life of Patricia Highsmith
- Do-over! : in which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments
- Donald Barthelme : the genesis of a cool sound
- Dorothy Parker : what fresh hell is this?
- Dorothy Parker in her own words
- Down home Missouri : when girls were scary and basketball was king
- Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel : a biography
- Dream me home safely
- Dreamer of Dune : the biography of Frank Herbert
- DuBose Heyward : a Charleston gentleman and the world of Porgy and Bess
- Dust tracks on a road
- Dust tracks on a road : an autobiography
- Earl Hamner : from Walton's Mountain to tomorrow : a biography
- Edith Wharton
- Edith Wharton : an extraordinary life
- Edmund Wilson : a biography
- Elie Wiesel : first person singular
- Emily Post : daughter of the Gilded Age, mistress of American manners
- Emily Post : daughter of the Gilded Age, mistress of American manners
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Enough about you : adventures in autobiography
- Epitaph for a desert anarchist : the life and legacy of Edward Abbey
- Erle Stanley Gardner : the case of the real Perry Mason
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Hemingway in Key West : a guide
- Eudora Welty : a biography
- Everybody into the pool : true tales
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- F. Scott Fitzgerald : the great American dreamer
- Faith under fire : betrayed by a thing called love
- Falling : a daughter, a father, and a journey back
- Familiar spirits : a memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson
- Famous people I have known
- Fante : a family's legacy of writing, drinking, and surviving
- Father : famous writers celebrate the bond between father and child
- Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016
- Finding Iris Chang : friendship, ambition, and the loss of an extraordinary mind
- Fish out of water : a search for the meaning of life : a memoir
- Fitzgerald and Hemingway : a dangerous friendship
- Flannery : a life of Flannery O'Connor
- Flannery O'Connor : a life
- Flannery O'Connor's South
- Floor sample : a creative memoir
- Frances Hodgson Burnett : the unexpected life of the author of The secret garden
- French connections : Hemingway and Fitzgerald abroad
- From our house : a memoir
- Full of life : a biography of John Fante
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Gary Paulsen
- Gather together in my name
- George, being George : George Plimpton's life as told, admired, deplored, and envied by 200 friends, relatives, lovers, acquaintances, rivals, and a few unappreciative observers
- Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright : the poetics and politics of modernism
- Ghost songs : a memoir
- Going for infinity : a literary journey
- Good dog. Stay
- Gore Vidal : the United States of amnesia
- Grace is where I live : the landscape of faith & writing
- Growing up
- Guarding the moon : a mother's first year
- Hand to mouth : a chronicle of early failure
- Hardboiled mystery writers : Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald : a literary reference
- Harlan Ellison
- Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison! : it seemed like a good idea at the time
- Hemingway
- Hemingway : the 1930s
- Hemingway : the Paris years
- Hemingway : the final years
- Hemingway at war : Ernest Hemingway's adventures as a World War II correspondent
- Hemingway in 90 minutes
- Hemingway in Africa : the last safari
- Hemingway in Cuba
- Hemingway in love : his own story
- Hemingway in love : his own story : a memoir
- Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald : the rise and fall of a literary friendship
- Hemingway's Key West
- Hemingway's Paris
- Hemingway's boat : everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961
- Hemingway's cats : an illustrated biography
- Hemingway, a biography
- Henry James : the imagination of genius : a biography
- Henry Miller : full of life
- Here at the New Yorker
- Here if you need me : a true story
- Highsmith : a romance of the 1950s
- Hole in my life
- Homegrown Democrat : a few plain thoughts from the heart of America
- Horizon
- Hot Damn! : Alligators in the casino, Nude women in the grass, How seashells changed the course of history, and other dispatches from paradise
- House of prayer no.2 : a writer's journey home
- How I wrote Jubilee and other essays on life and literature
- How it feels to be colored me
- How precious was that while : an autobiography
- How to grow up : a memoir
- Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing
- Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing
- Hunting with Hemingway : based on the stories of Leicester Hemingway
- I hate to leave this beautiful place
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I love a broad margin to my life
- I love you, Miss Huddleston, and other inappropriate longings of my Indiana childhood
- I tell you now : autobiographical essays by native American writers
- I'll be damned if I'll die in Oakland : a sort of travel memoir
- I. Asimov : a memoir
- Iceberg Slim : the life as art
- Idella : Marjorie Rawlings' "perfect maid"
- Improbable fiction : the life of Mary Roberts Rinehart
- In Gatsby's shadow : the story of Charles Macomb Flandrau
- In Pharoah's army : memories of the lost war
- In joy still felt : the autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954-1978
- In memory yet green : the autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954
- In search of J.D. Salinger
- In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose
- In the body of the world
- In the body of the world : a memoir
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- In the shadow of memory
- Indian Creek chronicles
- Intimate lies : F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham : her son's story
- Invasion of privacy : the Cross Creek trial of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- Invitations to the world : teaching and writing for young
- It's been a good life
- It's hard not to hate you
- J.D. Salinger : The catcher in the rye and other
- J.D. Salinger : a life
- J.D. Salinger : a life
- Jack Kerouac : king of the beats
- Jack Kerouac's American journey : the real-life odyssey of On the road
- Jack London
- Jack London : an American life
- Jack London, photographer
- Jack and Norman : a state-raised convict and the legacy of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song
- James Agee : a life
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin : a biography
- James Dickey : the world as a lie
- Jean Webster, storyteller
- Joe : a memoir of Joe Brainard
- John Cheever
- John Dickson Carr : the man who explained miracles
- Judy Blume
- Katherine Anne Porter : the life of an artist
- Kay Thompson : from Funny face to Eloise
- Kerouac : the definitive biography
- Kerouac and friends : a beat generation album
- Kinfolks : falling off the family tree | the search for my Melungeon ancestors
- L. Frank Baum, creator of Oz : [a biography]
- Last stands : notes from memory
- Laura Ingalls Wilder country
- Leon Uris : life of a best seller
- Letter to my daughter
- Letter to my daughter
- Libertarians on the prairie : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the making of the Little House books
- Lies my mother never told me : a memoir
- Life among the savages
- Listening below the noise : a meditation on the practice of silence
- Listening for Madeleine : a portrait of Madeleine L'Engle in many voices
- Literary life : a second memoir
- Liu dong de xiang yan : Haimingwei Bali hui yi lu
- Logical family : a memoir
- Lone cowboy : my life story
- Lonelyhearts : the screwball world of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
- Loss of Eden : a biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Lost friendships : a memoir of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and others
- Lost in Seoul : and other discoveries on the Korean peninsula
- Lost in the meritocracy : the undereducation of an overachiever
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake : a memoir
- Lyrics of sunshine and shadow : the courtship and marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore
- Lyrics of sunshine and shadow : the tragic courtship and marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore : a history of love and violence among the African American elite
- Mailer on Mailer
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings : sojourner at Cross Creek
- Marjorie's Cross Creek
- Mark Twain's other woman : the hidden story of his final years
- Marriage and other acts of charity
- Marriage and other acts of charity : [a memoir]
- Martha's Vineyard : Isle of dreams
- Mary Austin and the American West
- Mary, wayfarer : an autobiography
- Master of adventure : the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou : "diversity makes for a rich tapestry"
- Maya Angelou : a glorious celebration
- Maya Angelou : a glorious celebration
- Maya Angelou : the poetry of living
- Memoirs of Waldo Frank
- Mencken : a life
- Mencken : the American iconoclast
- Mencken on Mencken : a new collection of autobiographical writings
- Misadventures of a fly fisherman : my life with and without Papa
- Missing men : a memoir
- Mockingbird : a portrait of Harper Lee
- Mockingbird : a portrait of Harper Lee : from Scout to Go set a watchman
- Modern American memoirs
- Mom & me & Mom
- Mom & me & mom
- Monkey business : the adventures of Curious George's creators
- Mosaic : memoirs
- Mother on fire : a true motherf%#$@ about parenting!
- Mountain time : a western memoir
- Moving pictures : memories of a Hollywood prince
- Mozart and Leadbelly : stories and essays
- Mr. Baldwin, I presume : James Baldwin--Chinua Achebe, a meeting of the minds
- Mr. CSI : how a Vegas dreamer made a killing in Hollywood, one body at a time
- My Venice and other essays
- My avant-garde education : a memoir
- My cat Spit McGee
- My cat, Spit McGee
- My dog Skip
- My exaggerated life
- My grandfather's finger
- My journey with Maya
- My journey with Maya
- My life as a villainess : essays
- My life as author and editor
- My mentor : a young man's friendship with William Maxwell
- My reading life
- My search for B. Traven
- Myself & strangers : a memoir of apprenticeship
- Nabokov in America : on the road to Lolita
- Nine-headed dragon river : Zen journals, 1969-1985
- No gifts from chance : a biography of Edith Wharton
- No more words : a journal of my mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Norman Mailer : a double life
- O.J. in the morning, G&T at night : spirited dispatches on aging with Joie de Vivre
- Off to the side : a memoir
- On writing : a memoir of the craft
- On writing : a memoir of the craft
- On writing : a memoir of the craft
- On writing : a memoir of the craft
- On writing : a memoir of the craft
- On writing for children & other people
- Once around the Bloch : an unauthorized autobiography
- One drop : my father's hidden life--a story of race and family secrets
- Opal : a life of enchantment, mystery, and madness
- Original youth : the real story of Edmund White's boyhood
- Pagan Spain
- Palimpsest : a memoir
- Papa, my father
- Party of the century : the fabulous story of Truman Capote and his black and white ball
- Pass it down : five picture-book families make their mark
- Passionate minds : women rewriting the world
- Pat Conroy : our lifelong friendship
- Paul Bowles : a life
- Paul Zindel
- Paul and Me : fifty-three years of adventures and misadventures with my pal Paul Newman
- Paul and me : 53 years of adventures and misadventures with my pal Paul Newman
- Paula Fox
- Pearl Buck in China : journey to The good earth
- Peninsula of lies : a true story of a mysterious birth and taboo love
- Personal exposures
- Personal geography : almost an autobiography
- Peter Matthiessen : no boundaries
- Peter Taylor : a writer's life
- Philip Roth : the biography
- Pilgrimage on a steelride : a memoir about men and motorcycles
- Plimpton! : starring George Plimpton as himself
- Poets on the peaks : Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades
- Point to point navigation
- Point to point navigation : a memoir, 1964 to 2006
- Portrait of a novel : Henry James and the making of an American masterpiece
- Portrait of an expatriate : William Gardner Smith, writer
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Prime green : remembering the sixties
- Private demons : the life of Shirley Jackson
- Pulp writer : twenty years in the American Grub Street
- Queer Beats : how the Beats turned America on to sex
- Quite enough of Calvin Trillin : forty years of funny stuff
- Ranch of dreams : a lifelong protector of animals shares the story of his extraordinary sanctuary
- Rascal
- Rascal
- Rascal : mi tremendo mapache
- Ravens in the storm : a personal history of the 1960s anti-war movement
- Ray Bradbury : master of science fiction and fantasy
- Ray Bradbury unbound
- Raymond Carver : a writer's life
- Raymond Chandler
- Raymond Chandler : a biography
- Reading, writing, and leaving home : life on the page
- Reeling through life : how I learned to live, love and die at the movies
- Reflections from Zora! : celebrating 25 years of the Zora Neal Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities
- Remembering Ray : a composite biography of Raymond Carver
- Report from the interior
- Returning : a spiritual journey
- Rhythm and folklore : the story of Zora Neale Hurston
- Richard Wright : the life and times
- Richard Wright, daemonic genius : a portrait of the man, a critical look at his work
- Riding the bus with my sister : a true life journey
- Rod Serling : the dreams and nightmares of life in the twilight zone : a biography
- Running from safety : an adventure of the spirit
- Running from safety : an adventure of the spirit
- Running with the bulls : my years with the Hemingways
- Sailor and fiddler : reflections of a 100-year-old author
- Salinger
- Salinger : a biography
- Saturday's child : a memoir
- Scott Fitzgerald : a biography
- Scream : a memoir of glamour and dysfunction
- Screening room : family pictures
- Secret historian : [the life and times of Samuel Steward, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade]
- Secret historian : the life and times of Samuel Steward, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade
- Seeing Mary plain : a life of Mary McCarthy
- Self-help messiah : Dale Carnegie and success in modern America
- Sempre Susan : a memoir of Susan Sontag
- Senior moments : looking back, looking ahead
- Sex and the River Styx
- Shadow man : the life of Dashiell Hammett
- Shirley Jackson : a rather haunted life
- Shockaholic
- Shopping for porcupine : a life in arctic Alaska
- Shouting down the silence : a biography of Stanley Elkin
- Shut up he explained : the memoir of a blacklisted kid
- Silk parachute
- Singin' and swingin' and gettin' merry like Christmas
- Sir Vidia's shadow : a friendship across five continents
- Skin : talking about sex, class & literature
- Sleeping with cats : a memoir
- Solace : rituals of loss and desire
- Some sort of epic grandeur : the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Sometimes madness is wisdom : Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald : a marriage
- Sometimes the magic works : lessons from a writing life
- Sometimes you have to lie : the life and times of Louise Fitzhugh, renegade author of Harriet the spy
- Sontag : her life and work
- Speak, memory : an autobiography revisited
- Speak, memory : an autobiography revisited
- Speak, so you can speak again : the life of Zora Neale Hurston
- Speaking for the generations : native writers on writing
- Spit in the ocean 7 : all about Kesey
- Sprinkle glitter on my grave : observations, rants, and other uplifting thoughts about life
- Sterling A. Brown : building the Black aesthetic tradition
- Still alive! : a temporary condition : a memoir
- Stitch in time
- Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson
- Stories of my life
- Story of J : the author of The sensuous woman tells the bitter price of her crazy success
- Strange tribe : a family memoir
- Survivor
- Susan Sontag : the making of an icon
- Swimming in a sea of death : a son's memoir
- Sympathy for the devil : four decades of friendship with Gore Vidal
- Tales from a free-range childhood
- Tales from rhapsody home, or, What they don't tell you about senior living
- Tell me a story : my life with Pat Conroy
- Tennessee Williams
- The Avocado Drive zoo : at home with my family and the creatures we've loved
- The Beat Hotel : Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963
- The Bradbury chronicles : the life of Ray Bradbury
- The Christmas box miracle : my spiritual journey of destiny, healing, and hope
- The Hemingway patrols : Ernest Hemingway and his hunt for U-boats
- The Ox-Bow man : a biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- The Princess diarist
- The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Seuss, the whole Seuss, and nothing but the Seuss : a visual biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel
- The Tastemaker : Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America
- The art of vanishing : a memoir of wanderlust
- The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- The autobiography of LeRoi Jones
- The awakener : a memoir of Kerouac and the fifties
- The beginning of the journey : the marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling
- The best cat ever
- The best of us : a memoir
- The best of us : a memoir
- The book of separation : a memoir
- The bookmaker's daughter : a memory unbound
- The breaking point : Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the murder of José Robles
- The bridge across forever
- The bridge across forever : a lovestory
- The cat and the curmudgeon
- The cat and the curmudgeon
- The chicken chronicles : sitting with the angels who have returned with my memories : Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe : a memoir
- The collected autobiographies of Maya Angelou
- The company she kept
- The cooked seed : a memoir
- The creative life : true tales of inspiration
- The cruise of the Snark
- The cruise of the Snark
- The curious case of H. P. Lovecraft
- The dangerous summer
- The dangerous summer
- The death of Santini : the story of a father and his son
- The devil at large : Erica Jong on Henry Miller
- The discomfort zone : a personal history
- The discomfort zone : a personal history
- The dream : a memoir
- The dream at the end of the world : Paul Bowles and the literary renegades of Tangier
- The dreaming game : a portrait of a passionate life
- The fairy tale girl
- The faith of a writer : life, craft, art
- The ghost in the little house : a life of Rose Wilder Lane
- The golden willow : the story of a lifetime of love
- The heart of a woman
- The heart of a woman
- The heart of revolution : the radical life and novels of Olive Dargan
- The house by the sea : a journal
- The hue and cry at our house : a year remembered
- The inevitable : contemporary writers confront death
- The journal keeper : a memoir
- The kitchen readings : untold stories of Hunter S. Thompson
- The last holiday : a memoir
- The last party : my life with Norman Mailer
- The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage
- The little locksmith : a memoir
- The lives of Agnes Smedley
- The long embrace : Raymond Chandler and the woman he loved
- The long-legged house
- The lost landscape : a writer's coming of age
- The making of a writer
- The man who was Walter Mitty : the life and work of James Thurber
- The man who would marry Susan Sontag : and other intimate literary portraits of the Bohemian Era
- The memory of all that : George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and my family's legacy of infidelities
- The mockingbird next door : life with Harper Lee
- The names of the stars : a life in the wilds
- The perfect hour : the romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, his first love
- The pigman & me
- The princess diarist
- The real Wizard of Oz : the life and times of L. Frank Baum
- The road
- The secret history of Vladimir Nabokov
- The secret life of The lonely doll : the search for Dare Wright
- The secrets of grown-ups
- The skeptic : the life of H.L. Mencken
- The solace of open spaces
- The story of Charlotte's Web : E.B. White's eccentric life in nature and the birth of an American classic
- The story of my typewriter
- The summer of the great-grandmother
- The summer of the great-grandmother
- The talented Miss Highsmith : the secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith
- The thing about life is that one day you'll be dead
- The thing about life is that one day you'll be dead
- The time Mom met Hitler, Frost came to dinner, and I heard the greatest story ever told : a memoir
- The traveling feast : on the road and at the table with my heroes
- The turquoise ledge : a memoir
- The unfinished quest of Richard Wright
- The voice is all : the lonely victory of Jack Kerouac
- The way I see it : an autobiography
- The way forward is with a broken heart
- The way forward is with a broken heart
- The way we lived then : recollections of a well-known name dropper
- The wink of the zenith : the shaping of a writer's life
- The woman said yes : encounters with life and death : memoirs
- The world of Laura Ingalls Wilder : the frontier landscapes that inspired the Little House books
- The world of Raymond Chandler : in his own words