Subject: Authors, American › 20th century › Biography

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• On Writing by Stephen King (15,361 copies)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (11,897 copies)
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (7,815 copies)
• Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck (7,157 copies)
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (6,562 copies)
• A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut (4,379 copies)
• Black Boy by Richard Wright (4,337 copies)
• The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston (4,308 copies)
• Rascal by Sterling North (3,896 copies)
• Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov (3,126 copies)
• This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff (2,567 copies)
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (2,295 copies)
• The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen (2,247 copies)
• The Writing Life by Annie Dillard (2,140 copies)
• A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based… by Dave Eggers (2,115 copies)
• The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou (2,067 copies)
• Henry and June: From A Journal of Love: the Unexpurgated… by Anaïs Nin (2,022 copies)
• An American Childhood by Annie Dillard (1,948 copies)
• Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway (1,888 copies)
• The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story by Richard Bach (1,593 copies)
• 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie DePaola (1,547 copies)
• The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig (1,528 copies)
• The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster (1,510 copies)
• One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty (1,492 copies)
• Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg (1,416 copies)
• The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen (1,250 copies)
• Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou (1,237 copies)
• Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford (1,199 copies)
• In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker (1,179 copies)
• The Cat Who Came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory (1,163 copies)
• Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography by Zora Neale Hurston (1,117 copies)
• The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald (1,081 copies)
• Growing Up by Russell Baker (1,063 copies)
• The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff (1,012 copies)
• The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis (1,001 copies)
• All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou (986 copies)
• Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields (983 copies)
• Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal (960 copies)
• Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac (959 copies)
• A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas (954 copies)
• Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage by Madeleine L'Engle (949 copies)
• Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou (949 copies)
• Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton (945 copies)
• The Summer of the Great-Grandmother by Madeleine L'Engle (944 copies)
• Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos (937 copies)
• How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen (898 copies)
• Capote: A Biography by Gerald Clarke (893 copies)
• Bad Boy: A Memoir by Walter Dean Myers (892 copies)
• Here If You Need Me: A True Story by Kate Braestrup (885 copies)
• Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli (880 copies)

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