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"Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons is the biography of a writer who vividly depicted alien creatures and new worlds. As the author of the Dragonriders of Pern series, McCaffrey (b. 1926) is one of the most significant writers of science fiction and fantasy. She is the first woman to win the Hugo and Nebula awards, and her 1978 novel The White Dragon was the first science-fiction novel to appear on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list. This...
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Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe.
"In Tibetan Peach Pie, Robbins turns that unparalleled literary sensibility inward, stitching together stories of his unconventional life, from his Appalachian childhood to his globetrotting adventures -- told in his unique voice that combines the sweet and sly, the spiritual and earthy....
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Ross Lockridge, Jr.'s novel, Raintree County, was the publishing event of 1948. Excerpted in Life magazine, the novel was the Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection, winner of the enormous MGM Novel Award, and first on the nation's bestseller lists. Many years later, Larry Swindell, the syndicated critic, would write that "no myth is more imposing than the Great American Novel; but if it is truly unattainable, I believe that Ross Lockridge made closer...
12) Herman Melville
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This book is neither strictly a critical analysis nor precisely a biography. Instead, it might be considered the biography of a career. Melville was born in New York City in 1819. When he died in 1891 (he is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx), he was virtually forgotten by the public. The author of Moby-Dick, Pierre, Redburn, White-Jacket, The Confidence-Man, Typee, Omoo, Billy Budd (the last-named work not published till 1924), and other masterpieces...
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Joseph Heller was a Coney Island kid in New York, the son of Russian immigrants, who went on to great fame and fortune. His most memorable novel took its inspiration from a mission he flew over France in WWII when his plane was filled with so much shrapnel it was a wonder it stayed in the air. Altogether, Heller wrote seven novels, all of which remain in print. Something Happened and Good as Gold, to name two, are still considered the epitome of satire....
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For Andre Dubus, "The quotidian and the spiritual don't exist on different planes, but infuse each other. His is an unapologetically sacramental vision of life in which ordinary things participate in the miraculous, the miraculous in ordinary things. He believes in God, and talks to Him, and doesn't mince words. He believes in ghosts ... He is open to mystery, and of all mysteries the one that interests him most is the human potential for transcendence."...
20) Broken vessels
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Writer Andre Dubus explores many aspects of his life, including the 1986 automobile accident that left him paralyzed and his struggle for spiritual and physical survival.
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