New York: Holt Rinehart, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on the prize-winning Ross Spears documentary film - illustrated with photographs.

New York: St Martin's, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The definitive biography of this Russian writer, one of the most tragic and greatest poets of the 20th century and a writer who revolutionized modern poetry . The author spent 10 years writing this, has devoted much of her scholarly life to the study of Akhmatova, edited the Complete Poems and had access to hundreds of otherwise restricted documents. Presents a vivid picture of life among Soviet writers during the Revolution, and under Stalin and finally under Krushchev. Photographs. Very entensive notes and bibliography. Index xv, 619 pp. ISBN: 0-312112416.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixteen short essays about friendship - including those of Edith Wharton and Mrgaret Chanler, Boswell & Johnson, FDR and Colonel Hopkins, Ivy Compton-Burnett and Margaret Jourdain and more,

New York: Crown, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of the American novelist who was "able to observe America's privileged class from the inside." Photographs, extensive notes, index. xii, 287 pp. ISBN: 0-517-587203.

New York: Viking, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography which draws on interviews with Djuna Barnes's brother and unpublished letters, tracing the life and career of the early twentieth-century bisexual writer and friend to James Joyce and T. S. Eliot. "Herring traces her creative influences to gain a greater understanding of her writing, elucidating the ways in which her unusual life shaped her literary genius." Includes a chronology,extensive notes, a list of the works by Barnes, bibliography, index. xxvii, 386 pp. ISBN: 0-670849693.

Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co, (1992). Hardcover - "The road to OZ was not an easy one for L Frank Baum. He endured personal misfortune and financial difficulties, failing at several careers before becoming a top children's author. He wrote 13 more OZ book, over 60 books in all. And despite the enduring popularity of his books, they have often been denounced as unsuitable for young readers." The life story of Baum, the man behind the magic of Oz.
Illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs. Includes bibliographical references, a selected list of L. Frank Baum's books, index. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-822549107.

London: Pandora Press (1990). The first biography of this English and Scottish writer, the author of over 80 books, a notable feminist and socialist who was at the center of London's intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s. Illustrated with photographs, bibliography of Mitchison's works, index, contents xvii, 192 pp. ISBN: 0-04-4408625.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1998.). An unconventional biography of the expat writer Paul Bowles, based on many interviews Dillon (the biographer of Bowles' wife, Jane) had with him in Tangiers.Works cited. xix, 340 pp. ISBN: 0-520-224930.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An unconventional biography of the expat writer Paul Bowles, based on many interviews Dillon (the biographer of Bowles' wife, Jane) had with him in Tangiers. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs. Works cited. xix, 340 pp. ISBN: 0-520-211049.

Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Although he went on to publish some 55 books, Caldwell remains best known for his classic first novel "Tobacco Road." In this book, he discusses his life and career, including his four marriages, his struggles to get his work accepted by a publisher, and the attempts to ban his work. Photographs. 332 pp plus a list of his works. ISBN: 0-934601119.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Carolyn Cassady's story of her life at the center of the Beat generation." In 1948, at the age of 25, she married Neal Cassady, immortalized as Dean Moriarty in the classic 'On the Road by Jack Kerouac.' A vivid picture of two decades in the history of American culture. Glossy black and white photographs. Index, 436 pp. ISBN: 0-688088910.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1977) dj. Hardcover - Posthumous publication of a book which Christie began writing in around 1950, when she was 60 years old. Illustrated with photographs. xii, 519 p. ISBN: 0-396075169.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - :"An Intimate Biography Of The First Lady Of Crime" based on accounts by people who knew her. Illustrated with black and white photographs.Appendix, index. xiii, 247 pp. Jacket by Fred Marcellino. ISBN: 0-385126239.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Pioneer, feminist, literary star, Flaubert's muse. Includes black-and-white photographs, index, notes, and bibliography. 432 pgs. ISBN: 0-671-742388.

New York: Ecco Press, (2004.). First edition - The Garman sisters were "strikingly beautiful, artistic and wild" and they were at the center of radical literary and political circles in Europe between the world wars. This focuses on the stories of four members of the family whose lives are most fully documented: three of the sisters: Mary (wife of the poet Roy Campbell), Kathleen (mistress and later the wife of sculpture Jacob Epstein and Lorna Wishart (lover of the young poet Laurie Lee and painter Lucien Freud) and their brother, Douglas Garman. Photographs, sources, bibliography (the index is not included in this advance issue.) 299 pp.

New York: Random House, 1995. Hardcover first edition - Fascinating biography of the publisher of such authors as Faulkner, Djuna Barnes, T.S. Eliot, Hemingway and more - the co-founder of the Modern American Library - and the Little Leather Library. 394 pgs, index, sources, photographs.

New York: Harper & Row, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first extensive study of Dickens' s childhood and youth, and of how he transformed these experiences into his fiction. Illustrated with both photographs and reproductions of some of the original illustrations used in his books. 321 pages, including bibliograhy and index.

New York: Mayflower Books / Heinneman, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - A partial autobiography by the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, an author of 30 books, including fiction, children's books and non-fiction, who has "established herself as a brilliant, penetrating and compassionate observer of people. Here she observes herself as well, objectively and often mockingly." Illustrated with photographs. Index. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-831766204.

London: Collins, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Definitive biography of the Imagist poet and influential modernist by a woman who is a noted poet herself.Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography and index. List of books by H. D. xxii, 360 pp.. ISBN: 0-688-047092.

Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of this poet by his longtime friend and fellow poet. Dorn was born in rural Illinois, grew up in Depression era poverty and spent much of his life wandering across America, from the Black Mountain College in the 50's to California and always across the prairies, and finally to Colorado. "The soul of the land and the soul of his poems are inextricably linked." Based on Clark's own experience with Dorn, on letters and unpublished manuscript materials, this examines both his life and work, and quotes generously from his poems. Photographs. 434 pp. ISBN: 1556433972.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir focusing on the first twenty-two years of her life, as the privileged daughter of the famous actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and granddaughter of George du Maurier, the author and artist, and ending as she is falling in love with both Cornwall - the site of her most well-known novel,'Rebecca' - and with her future husband. Illustrated with photographs. Author's note, index. ix, 204 pp. ISBN: 0-385130163.

New York: Doubleday, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Meticulously researched" biography of the writer of 'Rebecca', 'Frenchman's Creek,' 'Jamaica Inn' and many other novels and biographies. Photographs on glossy paper. Afterword, notes, appendix, index. xviii, 457 pp. ISBN: 0-385420684.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of this Pulitzer Prize and National Book award winning poet. Photographs, notes, selected bibliograhy, index. xxix, 299 pp.

New York: Franklin-Watts, 1983. Hardcover first edition - A biography of George Henry Lewes, the man with whom George Eliot lived for 25 years. 289 pg, illustrated, index.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1915 during the long Wyoming winters on Skunk Ranch near Cody, Evarts began writing tales of adventure, which his sister sent off to New York secretly. Just as his ranch went bankrupt, he launched a new career as a best seller writer. Three of his novels were made into films - and one of them launched the career of John Wayne. Written with affection by his son this is "a colorful history told with the broad humor and a knack for sniffing out the comic and extraordinary details of Evarts' extraordinary life." Photographs, eulogy, bibliography, and list of books by Hal G. Evarts. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-884962970..

New York: Scribner's, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a preface and an introduction, notes and an index, as well as the letters themselves, chronologically arranged.

New York: Scribner, 1963. Hardcover - The first publication of a wide selection of Fitzgerald's letters - grouped in sections by the people to whom they were addressed: his daughter, Scottie, Hemingway, critic Edmund Wilson, etc. 615 pages, including index.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1971.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An "autobiography" fashioned from eight volumes of Ford's memoirs by Ford, selected, edited and with an introduction by Michael Killigrew. A prolific writer himself, Ford was also at the forefront on the literary world from the early 20th century until his death in 1939 - he was the nephew of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, he was in Paris with James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Hemingway and others.
Sources. xxi, 392 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0859719.

New York: Henry Holt, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second memoir by this award-winning author, focused on the very beginning of her career - "In 1946, Paula Fox walked up the gangplank of a partly reconverted Liberty with the classic American hope of finding experience in Europe. She was twenty-two years old, and would spend the next year moving among the ruins of London, Warsaw, Paris, Prague, Madrid, and other cities as a stringer for a small British news service - including a stint in bombed-out Warsaw in the midst of the Communist election takeovers, and nights spent in apartments here and there with distant relatives, friends of friends, and in shabby pensions with little heat." Illustrated with photographs. 133 pp. ISBN: 0-805078061.