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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English



Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. 1996

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Lorraine Hansberry : the life behind A raisin in the sun


Shields, Charles J., 1951- author.
New York, NY : Henry Holt and Company, 2022. 2022

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American women writers, 1900-1945 : a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook



Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000. 2000

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The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire


Claridge, Laura P., author.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. 2016

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Opening the road : Victor Hugo Green and his Green Book


Dawson, Keila V., author.
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Beaming Books, [2021] 2021

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Collecting lives : critical data narrative as modernist aesthetic in early twentieth-century U.S. li


Rodrigues, Elizabeth (Librarian), author.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022. 2022

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Brown girl dreaming


Woodson, Jacqueline, author.
New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), [2014] 2014

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Pauline E. Hopkins : a literary biography


Wallinger, Hanna.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2005] 2005

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Maya Angelou : her phenomenal life & poetic journey



New York, NY : Essence Books, an imprint of Time Home Entertainment Inc., [2014] 2014

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Street poison : the biography of Iceberg Slim


Gifford, Justin, 1975-
New York : Doubleday, [2015] 2015

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Sontag : her life and work


Moser, Benjamin.
New York : Ecco, 2019. 2019

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Secret historian : the life and times of Samuel Steward, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renega


Spring, Justin, 1962-
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2010] 2010

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The hidden history of American fashion : rediscovering twentieth-century women designers



London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018. 2018

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I know why the caged bird sings


Angelou, Maya.
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009. 2009

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William Faulkner : A Life through Novels


Bleikasten, André, author.
[Place of publication not identified] : Indiana University Press, [2017] 2017

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The final victim of the blacklist : John Howard Lawson, dean of the Hollywood Ten


Horne, Gerald.
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006] 2006

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The man who ate too much : The life of James Beard


Birdsall, John, author
2020. 2020

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Passionate minds : women rewriting the world


Pierpont, Claudia Roth.
New York : Knopf, 2000. 2000

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Ernest Hemingway : 1899-1961



[Brora, Scotland] : Academy Media ; West Long Branch, NJ : Distributed by Kultur, ©2005. 2005

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American rhapsody : writers, musicians, movie stars, and one great building


Pierpont, Claudia Roth, author.
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2016] 2016

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Susan Glaspell : her life and times


Ben-Zvi, Linda.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. 2005

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Credo : the Rose Wilder Lane story


Bagge, Peter, author, illustrator.
[Montréal] : Drawn & Quarterly, 2019. 2019

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Trouble maker for justice : the story of Bayard Rustin, the man behind the march on Washington


Houtman, Jacqueline, author.
San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2019] 2019

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The Columbia companion to the twentieth-century American short story



New York : Columbia University Press, [2000] 2000

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Zora Neale Hurston : a life in American history


Li, Stephanie, 1977- author.
Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2020] 2020

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Their other side : six American women and the lure of Italy


Barolini, Helen, 1925-
New York : Fordham University Press, 2006. 2006

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Encyclopedia of contemporary writers and their work


Hamilton, Geoff.
New York, NY : Facts On File, Inc., [2010] 2010

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Virginia Hamilton : America's storyteller


Rubini, Julie, author.
Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017. 2017

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Aphrodite's daughters : three modernist poets of the Harlem Renaissance


Honey, Maureen, 1945- author.
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016. 2016

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Poet warrior : a memoir


Harjo, Joy, author.
Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022. 2022

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Some sort of epic grandeur : the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald


Bruccoli, Matthew J. (Matthew Joseph), 1931-2008, author.
[Place of publication not identified] : Open Road Media, 2022. 2022

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A long way from home


McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2007] 2007

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Gary Soto


Abrams, Dennis, 1960- author.
New York, NY : Chelsea House Publishers, [2013] 2013

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Eminent maricones : Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and me


Manrique, Jaime, 1949-
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [1999] 1999

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Planting stories : the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpré.


Denise, Anika, author.
[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC, 2020. 2020

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Writer, sailor, soldier, spy : Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures, 1935-1961


Reynolds, Nicholas (Nicholas E.), author.
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] 2017

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Hispanic writers : a selection of sketches from Contemporary authors



Detroit : Gale Research, [1991] 1991

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American writers of the 20th century


Bredeson, Carmen.
Springfield, N.J., U.S.A. : Enslow Publishers, [1996] 1996

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Lesbian & bisexual fiction writers



Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 1997. 1997

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Talking at the Gates : A Life of James Baldwin


Campbell, James, 1951- author.
Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2021] 2021

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Tyler Perry : media mogul.


Laney, C. L., author.
[Place of publication not identified] : SADDLEBACK PUB, 2021. 2021

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American rhapsody : writers, musicians, movie stars, and one great building


Pierpont, Claudia Roth.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. 2016

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Sontag : Her Life and Work


Moser, Benjamin, author.
[Place of publication not identified] : Ecco, [2019] 2019

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Dr. Seuss


Foran, Jill.
New York : AV2 by Weigl, 2013. 2013

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Little people, big dreams.



Beverly, MA : Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2021. 2021

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Recovering Native American writings in the boarding school press



Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017. 2017

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Our Emily Dickinsons : American women poets and the intimacies of difference


Pollak, Vivian R., author.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017] 2017

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Pam Muñoz Ryan


Wheeler, Jill C., 1964-
Edina, Minn. : ABDO Pub. Company, [2009] 2009

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I know why the caged bird sings


Angelou, Maya, author.
New York : Random House, 2015. 2015

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I know why the caged bird sings


Angelou, Maya, author, narrator.
[Westminster, Md.] : Books on Tape, 2011. 2011

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