Author of more than thirty books of poetry, Western history, stories, fiction, biography, criticism, and
Native studies, John G. Neihardt (1881–1973) was born in Illinois, taught for many years at the University of Missouri, and was named by act of ...
Hailed by The New York Times as “a passionately felt, deeply poetic book,” the moving
autobiographical work of Edward Abbey, considered the Thoreau of the American West, and his passion for the southwestern wilderness.Desert Solitaire is a collection of vignettes ...
Succinct text from photographer Barbara McKenzie and a foreword by Robert Coles provide context for
this moving collection of photographs of the middle Georgia Flannery O’Connor depicted in her fiction. Whether capturing highway signs proclaiming Christ or a restaurant five ...
Flannery O'Connor's South offers a forceful analysis, both literary and philosophical, of Flannery O'Connor's life
and literature. First published in 1980, this study draws upon Robert Coles' personal experiences in the South during the civil rights movement of the late ...
In her powerful memoir His Bright Light, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel
opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In A Gift of Hope, she shows us how she ...
First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway
odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains -- ...
"A warmhearted and insightful tribute to the author of Cross Creek and The Yearling, and
it’s the story of Parker herself, a tough-minded Floridian devoted to her family. A charming book."ALA BooklistIdella Parker’s recollections of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings are as ...
One of the very first books to take Stephen King seriously, Landscape of Fear (originally
published in 1988) reveals the source of King's horror in the sociopolitical anxieties of the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate era. In this groundbreaking study, Tony Magistrale shows ...