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"....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • 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 480 ratings
    • Hailed as Charlotte Brontë’s “finest novel” by Virginia Woolf, Villette is the timeless semi-autobiographical tale of Lucy Snowe....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • By: Jane Austen
    • Narrated by: Rosamund Pike
    • Series: Jane Austen's Novels
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 43,119 ratings
    • One of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly brought to life by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • 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.

    Regular price: $22.50

    • 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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    • The Biography, The Onlie Begetter: Literary Stardom and Royal Patronage, Volume IV
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 09-26-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakespeare in the close context of his world....

    Regular price: $13.07

    • 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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    • 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 2,319 ratings
    • In 1914 collisions between motor cars and horse-drawn carriages are an everyday occurrence on the streets of Paterson, New Jersey....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 298 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.....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • 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....

    Regular price: $24.04

    • 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 62 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....

    Regular price: $6.87

    • 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 16 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....

    Regular price: $13.50

    • 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 1,073 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....

    Regular price: $20.20

    • By: Jackie Torrence
    • Narrated by: Jackie Torrence
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 10-20-00
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • One of America's favorite African-American storytellers remembers her childhood in tender, unforgettable new stories....

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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
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • 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 117 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....

    Regular price: $17.16