Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

Portrait Of A Marriage: Vita Sackville West And Harold Nicolson

Nigel Nicolson · 249 pages

Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby

Geoffrey Wolff · 367 pages

Details the life of Harry Crosby, a publisher and member of the Lost Generation who led an excessive lifestyle and eventually committed suicide.

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Nancy Milford · 550 pages

Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she tormented herself.If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. The first woman ever to win the

Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?

Marion Meade · 459 pages

Dorothy Parker was known for her outrageous one-liners, her ruthless theater criticism, her clever verses and bittersweet stories, but there was another side to Dorothy Parker--a private life, set on a course of destruction. She suffered through two divorces, a string of painful affairs, a lifelong problem with alcohol, and several suicide attempts. In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Mea

As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

Julia Child · 416 pages

Letters of E.B. White

E.B. White · 686 pages

Letters written between 1908 and 1976, which are at the same time a biography and the history of an era.

The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters

Charlotte Mosley · 848 pages

The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

Hunter S. Thompson · 720 pages

My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

Abigail Adams, John Adams · 528 pages

A collection of letters between Abigail and John Adams written from 1762 to 1801 covering topics of revolution, independence, and nation building, along with those that reflect their love for one another.

A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway · 209 pages

A Moveable Feast is a 1964 memoir belles-lettres by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling expat journalist and writer in Paris during the 1920s. It was published posthumously.[1] The book details Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson and his associations with other cultural figures of the Lost Generation in Interwar France. The memoir consists of various per

Letters Home

Sylvia Plath · 512 pages

Forms a kind of autobiography of at least one aspect of Sylvia Plath's very complex life; it also coduments the flowering of abright young woman with promising talents into a full-blown genius, one of the greatest writers of this century.

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh · 351 pages

Most unusually among major painters, Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was also an accomplished writer. His letters provide both a unique self-portrait and a vivid picture of the contemporary cultural scene. Van Gogh emerges as a complex but captivating personality, struggling with utter integrity to fulfil his artistic destiny. This major new edition, which is based on an entirely new translation, rein

Half Broke Horses

Jeannette Walls · 313 pages

It is 1970 in a small town in California. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean returns from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take the bus to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decay

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

Dava Sobel · 420 pages

A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveInspired by her long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter, which she has translated into English for the first time, Dava Sobel has written a book of great originality and power, a biography unlike any ever written on the man Albert Einstein called “the father of modern physics – indeed of modern science al

The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss

Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt · 320 pages

"A charming, intimate and fascinating collection of correspondence between broadcaster and #1 New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper and his mother, the celebrated Gloria Vanderbilt"--

Letter to D: A Love Story

Andre Gorz · 144 pages

Letters & Papers from Prison

Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 437 pages

This new, greatly expanded version, while omitting nothing found in the earlier edition, shifts the emphasis of earlier editions on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theological reflections to the private sphere of his life. His letters now appear in far greater detail, and show his daily concerns and the enormous warmth and humanity of the young German pastor who was executed by the Nazis in 1945 for his par

Tell My Sons: A Father's Last Letters

Mark M. Weber · 258 pages

"At the high point of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark Weber was tapped by General David Petraeus to serve in a high profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Within weeks, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three ... When [he] realized that he was not going to survive this final tour of combat, he beg

Dear Mr. You

Mary-Louise Parker · 240 pages

"A wonderfully unconventional literary debut from the award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker. An extraordinary literary work, Dear Mr. You renders the singular arc of a woman's life through letters Mary-Louise Parker composes to the men, real and hypothetical, who have informed the person she is today. Beginning with the grandfather she never knew, the letters range from a missive to the beloved

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s

Cornelia Otis Skinner, Emily Kimbrough · 247 pages

Two ingenues "do the Continent" pre-WWII. Skinner takes us from the innocence of youth in the 1920s to the dawn of WWII, replete with all the faux pas and fiascoes you would expect from youth taking Europe on their own in the early part of the twentieth century when innocence still existed and innuendo was unheard of. A great read.

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

Art Spiegelman · 135 pages

"Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Mausintroduced readers to Vladek Spieglman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out o

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

David Sheff · 352 pages

What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings.

The Aviator's Wife

Melanie Benjamin · 402 pages

Despite her own major achievements--she becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the United States--Anne Morrow Lindbergh is viewed merely as Charles Lindbergh's wife. The fairy-tale life she once longed for will bring heartbreak and hardships, ultimately pushing her to reconcile her need for love and her desire for independence, and to embrace, at last, life's infinite possibilities for

I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives

Caitlin Alifirenka, Martin Ganda · 392 pages

In this dual memoir, Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda recount how they became best friends and better people through letters. The coauthors are Martin Ganda and Liz Welch.