Literary Biography

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    • On Blackness and Being
    • By: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake"....

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    • By: Charlotte Brontë
    • Narrated by: Davina Porter
    • Length: 22 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 483 ratings
    • Hailed as Charlotte Brontë’s “finest novel” by Virginia Woolf, Villette is the timeless semi-autobiographical tale of Lucy Snowe....

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    • By: Molly Kolpin, Michael Byers
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Did you know Shel Silverstein drew cartoons in a military newspaper while serving in the army? Discover how an aspiring writer and cartoonist went on to become a best-selling children's author....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Christopher Wixson
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time....

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    • Author of the Harry Potter Series
    • By: Jennifer Hunsicker
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Listeners will learn about the life and works of J.K. Rowling. The author’s life leading up to her success as the best-selling author of the Harry Potter series is discussed....

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    • By: John Irving
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 299 ratings
    • Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs, including an account of Mr. Irving’s dinner with President Ronald Reagan at the White House.....

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    • By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • From renowned translators Richard Pevear and Lindsay Volokhonsky comes a new translation - certain to become the definitive version - of the first great prison memoir....

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    • By: Amy Stewart
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Series: Kopp Sisters, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,327 ratings
    • In 1914 collisions between motor cars and horse-drawn carriages are an everyday occurrence on the streets of Paterson, New Jersey....

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    • Timeless Children's Novels to Refresh Our Tired Souls
    • By: Mitali Perkins
    • Narrated by: Siiri Scott
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Mitali Perkins invites us to explore the promise of seven timeless children's novels for adults living in uncertain times: stories that provide mirrors to our innermost selves and open windows to other worlds....

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    • A Literary Autobiography
    • By: William F. Buckley Jr.
    • Narrated by: William F. Buckley Jr.
    • Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 204 ratings
    • In this autobiography, woven from personal pieces composed over the course of a celebrated writing life of more than 50 years, you'll meet William Buckley the boy....

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    • A Life of Willa Cather
    • By: Benjamin Taylor
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Taylor
    • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • A tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century is also an elegant exploration of artistic endurance, as told by a lifelong lover of Willa Cather’s work....

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    • The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
    • By: Camille Peri
    • Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of the creative and romantic partnership between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife and muse, Fanny Van de Grift, A Wilder Shore unfolds with all the richness and complexity of a timeless epic.

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    • Edward I and the Forging of Britain
    • By: Marc Morris
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,075 ratings
    • In this audiobook, Marc Morris examines afresh the forces that drove Edward throughout his relentless career: his character, his Christian faith, and his sense of England's destiny....

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    • The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
    • By: Lindsay Mattick
    • Narrated by: Erin Moon
    • Length: 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl! Here is the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh....

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    • By: Jack Olsen
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
    • Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,681 ratings
    • Recounts the tragic events that followed the arrest of Fred Coe, a conservative, clean-cut young man, for a series of rapes committed in the city of Spokane and led to revenge and murder....

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    • On Writers and Drinking
    • By: Olivia Laing
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • Olivia Laing's widely acclaimed account of why some of the best literature has been created by writers in the grip of alcoholism....

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    • A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
    • By: Soyica Diggs Colbert
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this first scholarly biography of Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), the author of A Raisin in the Sun, theater professor Soyica Diggs Colbert considers the playwright's life at the intersection of art and politics....

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