Henry Carter Hull

Chronicles the life of author Herman Melville and analyzes various aspects of his work.

An autobiography of Joseph Heller, discussing his childhood living down the block from the Coney Island amusement park, his military service during World War II, his post-war career and marriage, and the success and significance of his novel "Catch-22."

Chronicles the life of best-selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford, discussing her humble beginnings in Yorkshire, her early journalism career, her relationship with her family, her personal struggles, her literary accomplishments, and other related topics.

Memoir of the author who took to writing crime novels as a means to cope with his mother's murder and discusses the detective who headed the case and his strategy for finding the killer's identity.

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of being Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain.Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian house in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients, and a pedophile living in the backyard shed completed the tableau. Here, there were...

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.