Books like The art of burning bridges by Geoffrey Wolff

A brief autobiographical account by Richard Bach that explores his personal love affair.

A working‑class professor returns to his Kentucky alma mater and uncovers the wartime trauma of his parents‑in‑law, a Holocaust survivor couple, while searching for a vanished sense of home.

243 pages : 21 cm

From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton-tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born into a wealthy family, Wharton left America as an adult and eventually chose to create a life in France. Her renowned novels and stories have become classics of American literature, but as Lee shows, Wharton's own life, filled with success and scandal, was as intriguing as those of her heroines. Bridging two centuries and two very different sensibilities, Wharton here comes to life in the skillful hands of one of the great literary biographers of our time.From the Trade Paperback edition.

James A. Michener reflects on his upbringing in Pennsylvania, his extensive travels worldwide, and how those experiences fed the research that underlies his celebrated novels.

A memoir of Marilyn French’s battle with esophageal cancer, her confrontation with medical uncertainty, and her recovery that reshapes her view of life and death.

A memoir of a young scholar’s first decade in 1950s New York, chronicling encounters with literary icons and the vibrant Greenwich Village scene.

Gioia Diliberto uncovers Ernest Hemingway’s intimate life through the eyes of his long‑time partner, Hadley, revealing the woman who inspired and sustained his literary brilliance.