Subject: Authors, American 20th century Biography

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Books under this subject

• On Writing by Stephen King (16,447 copies)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (12,840 copies)
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (8,304 copies)
• Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck (7,612 copies)
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (7,094 copies)
• Black Boy by Richard Wright (4,635 copies)
• The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston (4,543 copies)
• A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut (4,518 copies)
• Rascal by Sterling North (4,246 copies)
• Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov (3,295 copies)
• This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff (2,686 copies)
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (2,428 copies)
• The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen (2,409 copies)
• The Writing Life by Annie Dillard (2,299 copies)
• A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based… by Dave Eggers (2,203 copies)
• The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou (2,191 copies)
• Henry and June: From A Journal of Love: the Unexpurgated… by Anaïs Nin (2,118 copies)
• An American Childhood by Annie Dillard (2,052 copies)
• Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway (2,035 copies)
• The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig (1,717 copies)
• 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie DePaola (1,688 copies)
• The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story by Richard Bach (1,662 copies)
• One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty (1,591 copies)
• The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster (1,578 copies)
• Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg (1,475 copies)
• Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou (1,314 copies)
• The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen (1,290 copies)
• In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker (1,257 copies)
• Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford (1,246 copies)
• The Cat Who Came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory (1,217 copies)
• Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography by Zora Neale Hurston (1,194 copies)
• The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald (1,139 copies)
• Growing Up by Russell Baker (1,119 copies)
• The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff (1,069 copies)
• The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís (1,064 copies)
• All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou (1,032 copies)
• Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields (1,022 copies)
• Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal (1,010 copies)
• Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage by Madeleine L'Engle (1,001 copies)
• Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac (999 copies)
• Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou (997 copies)
• A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas (991 copies)
• Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton (991 copies)
• The Summer of the Great-Grandmother by Madeleine L'Engle (988 copies)
• Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos (984 copies)
• China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston (984 copies)
• Bad Boy: A Memoir by Walter Dean Myers (974 copies)
• Capote: A Biography by Gerald Clarke (955 copies)
• Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli (945 copies)
• How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen (940 copies)

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