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Carson McCullers : a life / by Dearborn, Mary V.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America's greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journals. V. S. Pritchett called her "a genius." Gore Vidal described her as a "beloved novelist of singular brilliance ... Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure ... " And Tennessee Williams said, "The only real writer the South ever turned out, was Carson." She was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia. Her dream was to become a concert pianist, though she'd been writing since she was sixteen and the influence of music was evident throughout her work. As a child, she said she'd been "born a man." At twenty, she married Reeves McCullers, a fellow southerner, ex-soldier, and aspiring writer ("He was the best-looking man I had ever seen"). They had a fraught, tumultuous marriage lasting twelve years and ending with his suicide in 1953. Reeves was devoted to her and to her writing, and he envied her talent; she yearned for attention, mostly from women who admired her but rebuffed her sexually. Her first novel--The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter--was published in 1940, when she was twenty-three, and overnight, Carson McCullers became the most widely talked about writer of the time. While McCullers's literary stature continues to endure, her private life has remained enigmatic and largely unexamined. Now, with unprecedented access to the cache of materials that has surfaced in the past decade, Mary Dearborn gives us the first full picture of this brilliant, complex artist who was decades ahead of her time, a writer who understood--and captured--the heart and longing of the outcast."--
Subjects: Biographies.; McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967.; Women novelists, American;
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Toni Morrison [videorecording] : the pieces I am / by Morrison, Toni,on-screen participant.; Als, Hilton,interviewee.; Davis, Angela Y.(Angela Yvonne),1944-interviewee.; Lebowitz, Fran,interviewee.; Mosley, Walter,interviewee.; Winfrey, Oprah,interviewee.; Sanchez, Sonia,1934-interviewee.; Magnolia Pictures (Firm),presenter.; Perfect Day Films,production company.; Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Music by Kathryn Bostic ; director of photography, Graham Willoughby.Featuring: Hilton Als, Angela Davis, Fran Lebowitz, Walter Mosley, Sonia Sanchez, Oprah Winfrey.An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for some disturbing images/thematic material.DVD; widescreen (1.78:1).
Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Morrison, Toni.; Nobel Prize winners; African American women novelists; African American women poets;
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Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love / by Shapiro, Dani,author.;
"The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden the story of her own life"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Shapiro, Dani.; Jewish women; Novelists, American; Women novelists, American;
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Peril on the page / by Loudon, Margaret.;
"Penelope Parish is ready to close the book on her amateur sleuthing--from now on, The Open Book's writer-in-residence will be sticking to villains of the fictional variety while she puts the final touches on her new novel. But when an author is murdered inside the bookshop, all of Upper Chumley-on-Stoke goes on high alert. Now it's up to Pen and the quirky citizens of Chumley to stop a killer and protect the charming British town she's begun to call home"--
Subjects: Cozy mysteries.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Women novelists; Americans; Bookstores; Murder;
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A deadly dedication / by Loudon, Margaret,author.;
A murder in her quaint British bookshop drops American Gothic novelist Penelope Parish into her deadliest caper yet.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Cozy mysteries.; Novels.; Americans; Bookstores; Murder; Women novelists;
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How to end a love story : a novel / by Kuang, Yulin,author.;
Helen Zhang hasn't seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now she's in Los Angeles, where the two have to work together. The result is messy, and electrifying.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Asian American women; Man-woman relationships; Screenwriters; Television authorship; Women novelists;
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Joyce Carol Oates [videorecording] : a body in the service of mind / by Dern, Laura,narrator.; Björkman, Stig,1938-film director.; Kino Lorber, Inc.,publisher.;
Joyce Carol Oates ; narrated by Laura Dern.One of the country's preëminent and prolific serious writers, Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than 100 novels, including Them, We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. In this candid and revealing documentary, she provides insight into her life, creative process, and the events that have shaped her writings, including the 1967 Detroit Riot, the Chappaquiddick incident, and the tragic life of Marilyn Monroe.E.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-; Novelists, American; Novelists, American; Women authors;
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Domestic malice : a novel / by Fletcher, Jessica.; Bain, Donald,1935-;
Subjects: Radio and television novels.; Mystery fiction.; Fletcher, Jessica (Fictitious character); Novelists, American; Abused women; Murder;
© 2013., Obsidian Mystery,
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Omega farm : a memoir / by McPhee, Martha,author.;
"A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist -- a candid, riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a house that's been neglected of late. As Martha works to manage her mother's care and the sprawling, ramshackle property -- a broken septic system, invasive bamboo, dying ash trees -- she is pulled back into her childhood, almost against her will. Martha grew up at Omega Farm with her four sisters, five stepsiblings, mother, and stepfather, in a house filled with art, people, and the kind of chaos that was sometimes benevolent, sometimes more sinister. Caring for her mother and her children, struggling to mend the forest, the past relentlessly asserts itself -- even as Martha's mother, the person she might share her memories with or even try to hold to account, no longer knows who Martha is. A masterful exploration of a complicated family legacy and a powerful story of environmental and personal repair, Omega Farm is a testament to hope in the face of suffering, and a courageous tale about how returning home can offer a new way to understand the past"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; McPhee, Martha.; McPhee, Martha; McPhee, Martha; Adult children of aging parents; Aging parents; Dementia; Family farms; Forest management; Women novelists, American;
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Very nice / by Dermansky, Marcy,1969-author.;
"From the acclaimed author of The Red Car, a comic novel of race, money, sex, liberalism, and bad behavior in our post-Obama, era featuring a wealthy Connecticut divorcee, her college-age daughter, and the famous Pakistani-American novelist who seduces them both"--
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Teacher-student relationships; Divorced women;
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