Date Published: 1930 to 1973 Binding: Alec Waugh was a British novelist and travel writer. He was the son of Arthur Waugh (author, literary critic, and publisher) and elder brother of Evelyn Waugh. Waugh was a successful author of over 50 works, and lived in many exotic places throughout... More about Alec Waugh collection
Date Published: 1983 to 2007 Binding: Hard & Soft cover Lawrence Hill (b1957) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, educator, and documentary writer. His epic novel, The Book of Negroes, tells the spell-binding story of a girl, Aminata Diallo, forcefully brought to South Carolina from West Africa at the time of... More about Lawrence Hill collection
Date Published: 1844 to 1890 Binding: Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was an American poet, novelist, literary critic, translator, travel writer, and diplomat. Taylor is widely accredited with writing the first American gay novel: Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania. The collection contains 12 items dating from 1844 to... More about Bayard Taylor collection
Date Published: 1874 to 1916 Binding: William Dean Howells nicknamed “The Dean of American Letters”, was a prolific realist novelist, literary critic (Atlantic Monthly), poet, and playwright. He was a close colleague and friend with many major American writers of the nineteenth century, including Henry Adams, William James, Henry... More about William Dean Howells collection
Date Published: 1694, 1955, 1994 Binding: No binding & hard cover Pierre Berton / Farley Mowat three association collection (inscribed and provenance) items. The three items are all personally connected to these two Canadian literary giants. Born less than a year apart, Berton and Mowat were passionate story tellers of... More about Mowat / Pierre Berton three association collection (inscribed and provenance) items
Date Published: 1936 to 1995 Binding: No binding & hard cover Rumer Godden was a poet, memoirist, an English author of more than 60 fiction and nonfiction and children’s books. She was born in Sussex, but grew up in India, in Narayanganj. Many of her 60 books are set in... More about Rumer Godden collection