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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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...
3) Misery
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bestselling author is held captive in a wheelchair, made drug-dependent, and locked in his room by an angry nurse who demands he bring her favorite character back to life.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
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."
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"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.
Author
Language
English
Description
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of 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 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 no rules,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Akashic
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The author explores her mother's marriage -- and fourteen pregnancies -- in this "powerful memoir" ( Ebony ). One of Oprah.com's Best Memoirs of the Year Winner of the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction Tracing the four days between the moment she gets the dreaded call and the burial of her mother, Elizabeth Nunez tells of her lifelong struggle to cope with her parents' ambitions for their children -- and her mother's seemingly unbreakable...
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