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Concentrates on Cather's early years, lengthy apprenticeship, and the connection between her artistic and psychological growth.

"This new biography explores the forces that shaped the interior life of one of the most beloved novelists in the English language ... each chapter begins by evoking an object that conjures up a key moment or theme in Austen's life and work ... The woman who emerges is far tougher, more socially and politically aware, and altogether more modern that the conventional picture ... The book looks closely, too, at the biographical influences on her work,...

Explores the life of the author of "Gone With the Wind," tracing the way personal episodes were employed in her fiction, how her knowledge of Southern culture influenced her writing, and many little-known aspects of her career.

An intimate memoir of Anne Rice's Catholic girlhood, her unmaking as a devout believer, and her return to the Church--what she calls a decision of the heart. Moving from her New Orleans childhood in the 1940s and '50s, with all its religious devotions, through how she slowly lost her belief in God, the book recounts Anne's years in radical Berkeley, where she wrote Interview with the Vampire (a lament for her lost faith) and where she came to admire...

"Believe no one's representations about me, " George Eliot wrote a friend during the most painful scandal of her life; "for there is not a single person who is in a position to make a true representation." In a book that embodies a new approach to literary biography, Rosemarie Bodenheimer demonstrates how Eliot's letters and fiction together represent the real life of Mary Ann Evans, the complex and deeply appealing woman beneath the male pseudonym....