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New Author Biographies

Check out some of the library's new author biographies which have been published recently. Place your holds now!

And so it goes: Kurt Vonnegut, a life by Charles Shields

Charles Dickens: a life by Claire Tomalin

Fiction ruined my family by Jeanne Darst

Hemingway's boat: everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson

Phillis Wheatley: biography of a genius in bondage by Vincent Carretta

The private world of Georgette Heyer by Jane Aiken Hodge

Tolstoy: a Russian life by Rosamund Bartlett