Henry Carter Hull

The author chronicles his adolescence and young adulthood, describing the sexual and psychological abuse he suffered in the home of his mother's psychiatrist after she abandoned him there when he was twelve years old.

The author and her son chronicle his first year as a teenage father and her journey as a mother and new grandmother, describing their respective experiences with changing roles, the baby's mother, and poignant family losses.

Ralph Ellison: an American journey is the first documentary on one of the most gifted and intellectually provocative authors of modern American literature. It establishes Ellison as a central figure in contemporary debates over art, politics, race and nationhood. Narrated by Andre Braugher, the film brilliantly presents the first scenes ever filmed from Ellison's landmark novel, Invisible man. The extended Film version is nothing less than a virtual...

Susanna Moore draws on excerpts from some of her favorite books to recount the experiences she had while growing up in Hawaiʿi.

"A first publication of the ... writer's personal correspondences includes ... teenage reports of her 1880s Red Cloud life, letters written during her early journalism years and the 1940s exchanges penned in observation of World War II and her own struggles with aging"-- Publishers description.

While nine months pregnant, author Elizabeth McCracken found out that her baby boy had passed away. Of course she never recovered from this tragedy, but she did go on. McCracken pours her heart out in order to help strengthen ours. A truly touching and inspirational story that could cheer up anybody dealing with a loss.

Follows the continuing adventures of moderately well-known Jewish-American writer Henry Bech, now in his seventh decade, as he pursues fame and fortune in the literary world.

Biography of American writer Ernest Hemingway exploring many of the myths surrounding him.

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.