Subject: Novelists, American Biography

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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (22,419 copies)
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (14,317 copies)
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (9,956 copies)
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (8,661 copies)
Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs (5,415 copies)
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott (4,400 copies)
Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs (4,031 copies)
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey (3,739 copies)
Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs (2,760 copies)
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott (2,303 copies)
Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks (2,106 copies)
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons by Kurt Vonnegut (2,067 copies)
A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father by Augusten Burroughs (1,943 copies)
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott (1,846 copies)
The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings by Amy Tan (1,832 copies)
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed by John Irving (1,807 copies)
One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty (1,665 copies)
Travels by Michael Crichton (1,332 copies)
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan (1,320 copies)
My Losing Season by Pat Conroy (1,206 copies)
Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry (1,075 copies)
Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L'Amour (1,014 copies)
Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut (1,004 copies)
The Nightmare Years 1930-1940 (20th Century Journey: A… by William L. Shirer (878 copies)
Thirteen ways of looking at the novel by Jane Smiley (863 copies)
The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison (825 copies)
The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days by Frederick Buechner (721 copies)
Kitchen Privileges : A Memoir by Mary Higgins Clark (580 copies)
The Cat Inside by William S. Burroughs (572 copies)
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken (557 copies)
The Imaginary Girlfriend by John Irving (514 copies)
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : Reflections on Sixty… by Larry McMurtry (502 copies)
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure by Michael Palin (479 copies)
The World Is My Home: A Memoir by James A. Michener (479 copies)
Making a Literary Life by Carolyn See (463 copies)
The Cat Who Went to Paris by Peter Gethers (458 copies)
Now and Then by Frederick Buechner (446 copies)
The Coalwood Way by Homer Hickam (440 copies)
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography by Philip Roth (433 copies)
My Movie Business: A Memoir by John Irving (425 copies)
A Backward Glance: An Autobiography by Edith Wharton (396 copies)
My Lives: An Autobiography by Edmund White (395 copies)
Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox (384 copies)
Dream Catcher: A Memoir by Margaret A. Salinger (383 copies)
The Passion of Ayn Rand by Barbara Branden (380 copies)
Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs by Ted Morgan (376 copies)
Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography by William F. Buckley Jr. (369 copies)
The Other Side of Me by Sidney Sheldon (334 copies)
Melville: His World and Work by Andrew Delbanco (316 copies)
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling through the… by Louise Erdrich (315 copies)
Seldom Disappointed by Tony Hillerman (304 copies)
Heart Earth by Ivan Doig (301 copies)
I'm looking Through You: Growing up Haunted by Jennifer Finney Boylan (282 copies)
Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond by Denis Johnson (281 copies)
My Several Worlds by Pearl S. Buck (275 copies)
Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis (272 copies)
Report from Engine Co. 82 by Dennis Smith (259 copies)
Dragonholder by Todd McCaffrey (244 copies)
Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S.… by Graham Caveney (242 copies)
Sky of Stone: A Memoir by Homer Hickam (236 copies)
Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser by Rita Mae Brown (235 copies)
William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible by Barry Miles (233 copies)
The Longing for Home: Reflections at Midlife by Frederick Buechner (226 copies)
One Life at a Time, Please by Edward Abbey (223 copies)
Jack London, Sailor on Horseback by Irving Stone (218 copies)
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir by E. Lynn Harris (214 copies)
No Laughing Matter by Joseph Heller (208 copies)
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald (205 copies)
Callgirl: Confessions of an Ivy League Lady of Pleasure by Jeannette Angell (205 copies)
Bugles and a Tiger by John Masters (203 copies)
In Search of Moby Dick: Quest for the White Whale by Tim Severin (194 copies)
Faulkner: a biography by Joseph Blotner (193 copies)
Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice by Katherine Ramsland (192 copies)
My Years with Ayn Rand by Nathaniel Branden (184 copies)
My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants,… by David James Duncan (182 copies)
Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences by James R. Mellow (180 copies)
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson by Robert Polito (178 copies)
Broken Vessels: Essays by Andre Dubus (177 copies)
One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner by Jay Parini (175 copies)
Sinclair Lewis: An American Life by Mark Schorer (173 copies)
Bellow by James Atlas (169 copies)
John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography by Jackson J. Benson (166 copies)
The Cat Who'll Live Forever by Peter Gethers (164 copies)
1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir by Anne Roiphe (164 copies)
Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell by Anne Edwards (154 copies)
A Bridge for Passing by Pearl S. Buck (153 copies)
A Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy by Jay Tolson (151 copies)
John Steinbeck: A Biography by Jay Parini (141 copies)
Uncle Mame: The Life of Patrick Dennis by Eric Myers (138 copies)
Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age by Donna M. Lucey (134 copies)
Somehow Form a Family: Stories That Are Mostly True by Tony Earley (124 copies)
The Stephen King Story by George Beahm (119 copies)
Nonconformity: Writing on Writing by Nelson Algren (112 copies)
Henry James: The Untried Years, 1843-1870 by Leon Edel (112 copies)
Means of Escape by Philip Caputo (111 copies)
Epitaph For A Desert Anarchist: The Life And Legacy Of… by James Bishop (106 copies)
No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer… by Emily Hahn (105 copies)
The Futurians by Damon Knight (105 copies)
William Faulkner and Southern History by Joel Williamson (105 copies)
A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction by Ron Hansen (104 copies)
Surviving a Writer's Life by Suzanne Lipsett (104 copies)
Generation Without Memory: A Jewish Journey in Christian… by Anne Richardson Roiphe (103 copies)
Thomas Wolfe, a biography by Elizabeth Nowell (100 copies)
Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves, and Adventures of… by Ken Cuthbertson (99 copies)
Djuna: The Formidable Miss Barnes by Andrew Field (96 copies)
Seeing Through Places: Reflections on Geography and… by Mary Gordon (96 copies)
Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men: Searching through Scotland for… by Donald McCaig (95 copies)
Walker Percy: A Life by Patrick Samway (93 copies)
No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home by Chris Offutt (92 copies)
A Broom of One's Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning, and… by Nancy Peacock (92 copies)
Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante by Stephen Cooper (92 copies)
When Katie Wakes by Connie May Fowler (89 copies)
Anne McCaffrey: A Life With Dragons by Robin Roberts (88 copies)
Chester Himes: A Life by James Sallis (84 copies)
Too Strong for Fantasy by Marcia Davenport (83 copies)
You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival by Wesley Gibson (82 copies)
The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O'Hara by Geoffrey Wolff (79 copies)
Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by Peter Conn (79 copies)
The Quality of Hurt by Chester Himes (79 copies)
Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann by Barbara Seaman (78 copies)
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life : The Companion Book by Michael Paxton (77 copies)
My Life of Absurdity by Chester B. Himes (76 copies)
Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole by Rene Pol Nevils (76 copies)
South to a Very Old Place by Albert Murray (75 copies)
William Faulkner: American Writer : A Biography by Frederick Robert Karl (75 copies)
Life in a Day by Doris Grumbach (74 copies)
Herman Melville by Newton Arvin (73 copies)
A Golden String by Daisy Newman (72 copies)
When the Century Was Young by Dee Brown (70 copies)
Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street by Richard R. Lingeman (70 copies)
Grace Livingston Hill by Robert Munce (68 copies)
The Blue Suit: A Memoir of Crime by Richard Rayner (68 copies)
A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West by Mary Hallock Foote (68 copies)
Willa: The Life of Willa Cather by Phyllis C. Robinson (68 copies)
Ross Macdonald : A Biography by Tom Nolan (68 copies)
Faulkner's Mississippi by Willie Morris (67 copies)
Ross and Tom: Two American Tragedies by John Leggett (65 copies)
Seeking Rapture: Scenes from a Woman's Life by Kathryn Harrison (62 copies)
Misfit:: The Strange Life of Frederick Exley by Jonathan Yardley (60 copies)
Nelson Algren: A Life on the Wild Side by Bettina Drew (59 copies)
I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i by Susanna Moore (58 copies)
My Father Is a Book: A Memoir of Bernard Malamud by Janna Malamud Smith (56 copies)
Metropolis: New York As Myth, Marketplace, and Magical Land by Jerome Charyn (54 copies)
Nathanael West: The Art of His Life by Jay Martin (52 copies)
Gene Stratton-Porter: Novelist and Naturalist by Judith Reick Long (52 copies)
Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair by Anthony Arthur (51 copies)
Zane Grey: A Biography by Frank Gruber (50 copies)
Walker Percy: An American Search by Robert Coles (49 copies)
Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die by Francis M. Nevins (49 copies)
Rex Stout: A Biography by John J. McAleer (48 copies)
The Facts of Life by Maureen Howard (47 copies)
John Dos Passos: A 20th-century Odyssey by Townsend Ludington (45 copies)
Jumping the Line: The Adventures and Misadventures of an… by William Herrick (45 copies)
F. Scott Fitzgerald by Ruth Prigozy (45 copies)
Edmund White: The Burning World by Stephen Barber (44 copies)
William Faulkner: His Life and Work by David Minter (41 copies)
The Philosopher's Demise: Learning French by Richard A. Watson (41 copies)
Dangerous Friends by Peter Viertel (41 copies)
A Cloak of Light: Writing My Life by Wright Morris (39 copies)
Dorothy and Red by Vincent Sheean (39 copies)
Dreiser by W. A. Swanberg (39 copies)
I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir by Rafi Zabor (39 copies)
Will's Boy: A Memoir by Wright Morris (38 copies)
Name Dropping: Tales from My Barbary Coast Saloon by Barnaby Conrad (38 copies)
Ernest Hemingway: Rediscovered by Norberto Fuentes (38 copies)
After Long Silence by Michael Straight (37 copies)
A World Unsuspected: Portraits of Southern Childhood by Alex Harris (35 copies)
Dos Passos: A Life by Virginia Spencer Carr (35 copies)
The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn by John Nichols (34 copies)
Cain: The Biography of James M. Cain by Roy Hoopes (34 copies)
Trespassing: My Sojourn in the Halls of Privilege by Gwendolyn M. Parker (33 copies)
Patchwork Child: Early Memories by Brooke Astor (33 copies)
Campus Sexpot: A Memoir by David Carkeet (32 copies)
A Loving Gentleman: The Love Story of William Faulkner and… by Meta Carpenter Wilde (32 copies)
Gaslight by Carol Guess (32 copies)
James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years by Wayne Franklin (31 copies)
Mari Sandoz: Story Catcher of the Plains by Helen Winter Stauffer (31 copies)
Solo: An American Dreamer in Europe : 1933-34 by Wright Morris (30 copies)
Thomas Wolfe: A Writer's Life by Ted Mitchell (28 copies)
A Fragile Beauty: John Nichols' Milagro Country by John Treadwell Nichols (27 copies)
The private world of William Faulkner by Robert Coughlan (26 copies)
Upton Sinclair, American rebel by Leon A. Harris (25 copies)
Willeford by Don Herron (24 copies)
American Dreamers: Charmian and Jack London by Clarice Stasz (23 copies)
The Woman of Substance: The Secret Life That Inspired the… by Piers Dudgeon (22 copies)
Cleaving: The Story of a Marriage by Dennis Covington (21 copies)
Pearl S. Buck: A Biography by Theodore F. Harris (18 copies)
A time to write by Loula Grace Erdman (18 copies)
Times and Places by Emily Hahn (17 copies)
Moving Upcountry: A Yankee Way of Knowledge by Don Mitchell (17 copies)
John Steinbeck, the errant knight: An intimate biography of… by Nelson Valjean (16 copies)
Embalming Mom: Essays in Life (Sightline Books) by Janet Burroway (16 copies)
My Secret Mother: Lorna Moon by Richard De Mille (16 copies)
California's Daughter: Gertrude Atherton and Her Times by Emily Wortis Leider (16 copies)
Around our house by Henry Giles (15 copies)
Self-Portrait: Ceaselessly into the Past by Ross Macdonald (15 copies)
Melville and His World (A Studio book) by Gay Wilson Allen (13 copies)
Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life by Dianne Watkins Stuart (12 copies)
Living Up Country: A Pilgrim's Progress by Don Mitchell (12 copies)
Close Connections: Caroline Gordon and the Southern… by Ann Waldron (12 copies)
The Sex Doctors in the Basement: True Stories from a… by Molly Jong-Fast (11 copies)
Every Midget Has an Uncle Sam Costume: Writing for a Living by Donald Bain (9 copies)
Amy Tan: Author and Storyteller (Signature Lives: Modern… by Natalie M. Rosinsky (8 copies)
Forgotten Frontiers, Dreiser and the Land of the Free by Dorothy Dudley (8 copies)
Memories of Thomas Wolfe: A Pictorial Companion to Look… by John Chandler Griffin (8 copies)
Critical Survey of Long Fiction, English Language Series, 8… by Frank Northen Magill (8 copies)
Classic Crime and Suspense Writers (Writers of English) by Harold Bloom (7 copies)
Emblems of conduct by Donald Windham (7 copies)
Caroline Gordon As Novelist and Woman of Letters (Southern… by Rose Ann C. Fraistat (6 copies)
Scenes from country life by Malissa Redfield (5 copies)
Nathaniel Hawthorne;: An approach to an analysis of… by Jean Normand (3 copies)
Frontier's End: The Life and Literature of Harvey Fergusson… by Robert Gish (3 copies)
Melville and male identity by Charles Haberstroh (2 copies)
Theodore Dreiser: his world and his novels by RICHARD DANIEL LEHAN (2 copies)
Thomas Wolfe, Carolina student; a brief biography by Agatha Boyd Adams (2 copies)
Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Moncure Daniel Conway (2 copies)
Elmore Leonard by David Geherin (2 copies)