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Pilwun Shih (also known as Pilwun Wang) was born in Beijing in 1931, the year the Japanese invaded Northeastern China. Her whole family moved from northern China to southern China …

An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine ComedyFor all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri …

Winner of the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize 2025 and the 2025 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize.The dismantlement of the British Empire had a …

In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two …

In this combination memoir and craft book, award-winning author Jerry Apps shares the next phase in his life story begun in Limping through Life and Once a Professor. Beginning …

With special attention to Emily Dickinson's growth into a poet, this literary biographical study charts Dickinson's hard-won brilliance as she worked, largely alone, to become the …

By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig, born to an affluent Jewish family in Vienna, had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and …

'One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death.'So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section, 'Portrait of an …

Dosteovsky's immediate impulse for embarking on A Writer's Diary in 1873 was a desire to come into closer contact with his readers. Published in monthly instalments, it became a …