Subject: Authors, American › Biography

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• On Writing by Stephen King (15,403 copies)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (11,935 copies)
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau (11,619 copies)
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (7,827 copies)
• Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck (7,170 copies)
• A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut (4,386 copies)
• Black Boy by Richard Wright (4,344 copies)
• The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston (4,313 copies)
• Rascal by Sterling North (3,905 copies)
• Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (3,857 copies)
• Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov (3,131 copies)
• Roughing It by Mark Twain (2,725 copies)
• Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron (2,633 copies)
• This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff (2,571 copies)
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (2,295 copies)
• The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen (2,248 copies)
• The Writing Life by Annie Dillard (2,144 copies)
• The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou (2,070 copies)
• An American Childhood by Annie Dillard (1,949 copies)
• Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway (1,894 copies)
• The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story by Richard Bach (1,595 copies)
• The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster (1,510 copies)
• One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty (1,493 copies)
• Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg (1,416 copies)
• Walden and Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau (1,273 copies)
• The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen (1,253 copies)
• Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (1,249 copies)
• Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou (1,239 copies)
• Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford (1,201 copies)
• In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker (1,179 copies)
• The Cat Who Came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory (1,165 copies)
• Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography by Zora Neale Hurston (1,119 copies)
• The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald (1,084 copies)
• Growing Up by Russell Baker (1,068 copies)
• Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if… by Jen Lancaster (1,067 copies)
• Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly,… by Jen Lancaster (1,035 copies)
• The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff (1,012 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 (965 copies)
• Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac (962 copies)
• A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas (954 copies)
• Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage by Madeleine L'Engle (952 copies)
• Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou (950 copies)
• Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton (948 copies)
• The Summer of the Great-Grandmother by Madeleine L'Engle (945 copies)
• Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos (938 copies)
• How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen (897 copies)
• Capote: A Biography by Gerald Clarke (896 copies)
• Bad Boy: A Memoir by Walter Dean Myers (894 copies)

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