Literary Biography

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    • A Literary Autobiography
    • By: William F. Buckley Jr.
    • Narrated by: William F. Buckley Jr.
    • Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-2005
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this autobiography, woven from personal pieces composed over the course of a celebrated writing life of more than 50 years, you'll meet William Buckley the boy....

    Non-member price: $27.99

    • A Life
    • By: Matthew Sturgis
    • Narrated by: Jot Davies
    • Length: 36 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 13-07-2023
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Matthew Sturgis draws on a wealth of new material and fresh research, bringing alive the distinctive mood and characters of the fin de siècle in the richest and most compelling portrait of Oscar Wilde to date....

    Non-member price: $37.99

    • On Writers and Drinking
    • By: Olivia Laing
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Olivia Laing's widely acclaimed account of why some of the best literature has been created by writers in the grip of alcoholism....

    Non-member price: $19.99

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    • The Biography of Swami Rama
    • By: Pandit Rajmani Tigunait Ph.D.
    • Narrated by: D. C. Rao Ph.D.
    • Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • On the surface, this is a biography of an accomplished seeker who mastered the practices of yoga and brought a system for understanding the mysteries of body, mind, and spirit to students in the West....

    Non-member price: $18.99

    • By: Philip Roth
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Series: American Trilogy, Book 1, Zuckerman, Book 6
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, lucrative business, sporting prowess and good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving post-war America, Until one sunny day in 1968, when Swede's daughter commits an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism....

    Non-member price: $33.99

    • By: Norman Mailer
    • Narrated by: Maxwell Hamilton
    • Length: 42 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize-winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore. The Executioner's Song follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 and killed them in cold blood....

    Non-member price: $43.99

    • How Reading Shapes Our Lives
    • By: Lucy Mangan
    • Narrated by: Lucy Mangan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 13-03-2025
    • Language: English
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    • As a child, Lucy Mangan was reading all the time, using books to navigate the challenges and complexities of this world and many others. As an adult, she uses her new relationship with literature to seize upon the most important question: (how) do books prepare us for life?

    Non-member price: $21.99

    • By: Margaret Atwood
    • Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities....

    Non-member price: $22.99

    • By: Adeline Yen Mah
    • Narrated by: Adeline Yen Mah
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph and courage in the face of despair....

    Non-member price: $21.99

    • A Biography of Swami Vivekananda
    • By: Gautam Ghosh
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 17-02-2017
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A journey through the life of Swami Vivekananda is a study of the Indian civilization, its ethos and value system....

    Non-member price: $12.99

    • By: Catherine Lacey
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 27-03-2023
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing shape-shifter - dies suddenly, her widow, wild with grief, hurls herself into writing a biography...

    Non-member price: $27.99

    • By: Jack Olsen
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 25-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Prize-winning journalist Jack Olsen, armed with unprecedented access to one of the most infamous serial killers in American history, provides a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a murderer in the killer's own words....

    Non-member price: $26.99

    • By: Jack Olsen
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • An account of the crimes of Arthur Shawcross describes how the paroled child killer shot, stabbed, suffocated, and strangled 16 Rochester, New York, prostitutes....

    Non-member price: $33.99

    • By: Edna O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Edna O’Brien
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 27-09-2012
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Edna O'Brien was born in 1930. Her brilliant debut novel, The Country Girls, was banned in her native Ireland upon its publication in 1960. Since then she has gone on to produce some of the finest writing of the 20th century....

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    • The True Story of a Murderous Love
    • By: Jack Olsen
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • David loved Cindy and was loved in return. Or so he thought....

    Non-member price: $27.99

    • By: Dr Maya Angelou
    • Narrated by: Dr Maya Angelou
    • Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-11-2023
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Anyone who's read or listened to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings knows Maya Angelou was raised by her paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. In this book, Angelou details what brought her mother to send her away and unearths the well of emotions Angelou experienced long afterward as a result....

    Non-member price: $26.99

    • Author of the Twilight Series
    • By: Lori Mortensen
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-2022
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Listeners will learn about the life and works of Stephenie Meyer. This young adult author’s life leading up to her success as the best-selling author of the Twilight series is discussed....

    Non-member price: $3.99

    • The Women Behind Russia’s Literary Giants
    • By: Alexandra Popoff
    • Narrated by: Susan Finch
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 30-10-2013
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Muses and editors, saviors and publishers: Meet the women behind the greatest works of Russian literature....

    Non-member price: $27.99

    • By: Nanako Hanada, Catriona Anderson - translator
    • Narrated by: Yuriri Naka
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Nanako Hanada's life is in crisis. Recently separated from her husband, living in youth hostels and internet cafes, her work is going no better. Book sales at the eccentric Village Vanguard bookstore in Tokyo, which Nanako manages, are dwindling....

    Non-member price: $26.99