Dancing in the Ring
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Detroit in the 1920s proved to be the Paris of the West for many – including Catherine McIntosh...
Historical Fiction Biographical Fiction
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context
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The fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald serves as a compelling and incisive chronicle of the Jazz Age and...
In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, 1957-1969: Volume 1
Samuel R. Delany and Kenneth R. James
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For fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of...
Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet
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The daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother and a lover of women, Sappho was...
Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism
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The daughter of one of Britain's longest-serving Prime Ministers, Mary Gladstone was a notable...
The Hindered Hand
Sutton E. Griggs, John Cullen Gruesser and Hanna Wallinger
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Between 1899 and 1908, five long works of fiction by the Nashville-based black Baptist minister...
That Dickinson Girl (Forgotten Women #1)
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She’s going to be the greatest orator of the Civil War! Eighteen-year-old Anna Dickinson is...
Historical Biographical Fiction
Biography: A Very Short Introduction
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Biography is one of the most popular, best-selling, and widely-read of literary genres. But why do...
Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life of Writing
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 at the age of seventy-four, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has...
Roth Unbound
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Philip Roth - one of the most renowned writers of his generation - hardly needs introduction. From...