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Bill Buford
Bill Buford (born 1954)

journalist

  • University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge

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Heat
Among the thugs
Travel
The Body
Losers.
Autobiography
Granta (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Granta 28 : birthday special
In trouble again
Among the thugs
History
Granta 29 : new world
Money
Best of young British novelists.
Granta 48 Africa (Granta (Viking))
Granta-Biography-41
Granta 23
The best of young American novelists
Fifty.
New Europe!
History (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Granta 19
Granta 35
The last place on earth.
Granta 22
Granta 38
Gazza Agonistes.
Granta
Granta 34
Crime
Death.
Granta
Granta
Granta
Granta
Granta
The General
Granta 21
Granta
Granta 4
Birthday special
Granta 47
Dirt
Granta
Granta
Best of Young British Novelists (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
The New Yorker Out Loud
Granta 42
New Europe!
Granta 36
The Granta book of the family
The best of Granta reportage
Granta
Africa (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra
Granta
Best of Young British Novelists
Granta 24
Pancha Tantra
Granta 37
Money (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
The Best American Travel Writing 2010
Granta
Best of Granta Reportage
Rachel Cobb
Granta
Granta
Granta
Physiology of Taste
What Went Wrong? (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Granta
Don Bloch, the modern common wind
Calor
Unbearable Peace (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Granta Book of the Family
Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra
Granta 29
Granta 28: Birthday
Granta 30
Granta 33
Death (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Granta 50 (Granta (Viking))
Granta 44
Granta 43
Granta 32
Granta 45
Hitte
Walton Ford. Pancha Tantra. Updated Edition
Vargas Llosa (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Granta
Crime
Geil auf Gewalt. Unter Hooligans
We're So Happy (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Granta 7
Home (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Granta 51
Among The Thugs
Birthday special
Granta 49
Granta 34
Granta
Granta 27
Granta
Among the Thugs P/B Buford
Losers (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Fifty (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Gazza Agonistes (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Crime (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Brief History of the California Aerospace Industry
Krauts 42 (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Entre Los Vandalos
Among the Thugs Special Sales
Heat
Dirt
Granta 19
Granta 20: In Trouble Again
Richard Ellmann
Richard Ellmann (1918-1987)

literary critic, biographer, journalist, literary scholar

  • Yale University, University of Dublin

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Oscar Wilde
James Joyce
Yeats
Four Dubliners
Eminent domain
James Joyce's hundredth birthday, side and front views
The Norton anthology of modern and contemporary poetry
Yeats and Joyce
Oscar Wilde at Oxford
Letters
Oscar Wilde
The modern tradition
Edwardians and late Victorians
Ulysses on the Liffey
The identity of Yeats
Golden codgers; biographical speculations
Four Dubliners--Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
A long the riverrun
W.B. Yeats's second puberty
Letters. 4/4
Literary biography
Letters of James Joyce. 2-3/3
The New Oxford book of American verse
Oscar Wilde; a collection of critical essays
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
The consciousness of Joyce
Modern poems
The identity of Yeats
Yeats, the man and the masks
James Joyce Part 2
The uses of decadence
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
Yeats
Modern Poems
Joyce in love
The uses of decadence
Along the Riverrun
Omnium Gatherum
Modern poems
The modern tradition
Odysseus in Dublin
James Joyce Part 1
Oscar Wilde Part 1 Of 2
The Oscar Wilde playing cards
Samuel Beckett, Nayman of Noland
FOUR DUBLINERS
Modern poems
James Joyce's tower
Ulysses
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
Oscar Wilde. Biographie
Wilde and the nineties
Golden Codgers
The New Oxford Book of American Verse
Henry James among the aesthetes
Ulysses the divine nobody
Oskar Uaĭlʹd
Yeats, the man and the masks
Oscar Wilde (20th Century Views)
Cuatro Dublineses
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
The backgrounds of Ulysses
Vier Dubliner
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
The modern tradition
The limits of Joyce's naturalism
The identity of Yeats. --
Golden codgers
Oscar Wilde Part 2 Of 2
James Joyce's tower
Edwardians and late Victorians
W.B.Yeats
Ulysses on the Liffey
The New Oxford book of American verse
Herb Boyd
Herb Boyd (born 1938)

journalist

  • Wayne State University

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Simeon's story
Pound for Pound
Race and resistance
We shall overcome
Heroes of America
African History for Beginners (For Beginners)
Brotherman
The former Portuguese colonies
Seductive Sayings
Autobiography of a people
Down the glory road
The Harlem Reader
Black Panther Paradigm Shift or Not?
African history for beginners
Race and Resistance
Harold Neal and Detroit African American Artists
Black Panthers for Beginners
Autobiography of a People
Baldwin's Harlem
By Any Means Necessary Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented
The former Portuguese colonies
Civil rights
Baldwins Harlem A Biography Of James Baldwin
Black Detroit
The Harlem reader
Black Detroit
Autobiography of a people
Black Panthers for beginners
Black Detroit
Baldwin's Harlem
W. E. B. du Bois Souls of Black Folk
African History for Beginners
Black Panthers for Beginners
Martin Luther King Jr
John Cornwell
John Cornwell (born 1940)

journalist, biographer

  • University of Cambridge, Cotton College

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Seminary Boy
The Hiding Places of God
A thief in the night
Darwin's Angel
Breaking Faith
Hitler's Pope
Hitler's Scientists
Hitler's Pope
The power to harm
The Pontiff in Winter
Hitler's Scientists
The Dark Box
Breaking Faith
The Pope in Winter
Coleridge, poet and revolutionary, 1772-1804
Newman's Unquiet Grave
DARWIN'S ANGEL
Strange Gods
HITLER'S SCIENTISTS
The Power to Harm
Collieries of South Wales
Hitler's Pope - The secret history of Pius XII
The Pontiff in Winter
The Somerset Coalfield
A Thief in the Night
Collieries of Somerset and Bristol
Hitler's Pope
The Unknown God
Seven other demons
Seminary Boy
The Pope in Winter
Explanations
The Pontiff in Winter
Le Pape et Hitler
El Papa de Hitler
Intro to the Agricultural Institute
POPE IN WINTER
The spoiled priest
Earth to Earth
Pius XII. Der Papst, der geschwiegen hat
El Papa De Hitler / Hitler's Pope (Divulgacion Biografias)
Los Cientificos De Hitler/Hitler's Scientists (Paidos Historia Contemporanea)
Poison pens
Breaking the Faith
The Bristol coalfield
Strange Gods
Earth to earth
An orally presented group test of intelligence for juniors
Today's best nonfiction
The Great Western and Lewis Merthyr Collieries
The free & the brave
Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
POWERS OF DARKNESS POWERS OF LIGHT - Travels in Search of the Miraculous and the Demonic
New Illustrated History of Sheffield Eagles, 1984-1999
The free & the brave
Rhondda collieries
The Free and the Brave
William Zinsser
William Zinsser (1922-2015)

journalist, literary critic

  • Deerfield Academy, Buckley Country Day School

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Writing about your life
Inventing the Truth
On Writing Well
American Places
The Worlds of Childhood (The Writer's Craft)
Easy to Remember
Writing places
Extraordinary Lives
Speaking of Journalism
Writing with a word processor
Writing to learn
Pop goes America
The lunacy boom
Spring training
The haircurl papers and other searches for the lost individual
The Writer Who Stayed
Seen any good movies lately?
Spiritual quests
Willie and Dwike
Search & research
Going on faith
Mitchell & Ruff
Weekend guests
The paradise bit
The city dwellers
Any old place with you
Annual report of the National Refractory & Brake Company
They went
Willie and Dwike
A family of readers
How to Write a Memoir
Thoughts on leaving Wesleyan
Peterson's Birds
Iyi Yazmak Üzerine
David Thomson
David Thomson (born 1941)

journalist, biographer, film critic, performing artist, film scholar, actor, opinion journalist, critic

  • Dulwich College

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Bette Davis
Try to tell the story
Gary Cooper
Humphrey Bogart
Ingrid Bergman
Biographical dictionary of the cinema
Overexposures
Silver light
Suspects
The whole equation
In Nevada
Nicole Kidman
The new biographical dictionary of film
Hollywood
Scott, Shackleton, and Amundsen
Showman
Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes
Beneath Mulholland
Wild excursions
Warner Bros
Scott's men
The new biographical dictionary of film
The big screen
How to watch a movie
Warren Beatty
America in the dark
The big sleep
IN NEVADA
Marlon Brando
Hungry as hunters
Rosebud
Rosebud
Television
Movie man
The new biographical dictionary of film
Try to Tell the Story (Vintage)
A biographical dictionary of film
The moment of Psycho
Why acting matters
A bowl of eggs
The big screen
The moment of Psycho
EXCERPTS FROM "MOVIE MAN"
Moments that made the movies
The moment of Psycho
Ellen Gilchrist
Ellen Gilchrist (1935-2024)

poet, journalist, diarist

  • Millsaps College, University of Arkansas

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The writing life
Victory Over Japan
Starcarbon
Anabasis
Sarah Conley
A dangerous age
Age of Miracles
The courts of love
Drunk with love
In the land of dreamy dreams
The cabal and other stories
The Anna Papers
Falling through space
I Cannot Get You Close Enough
Rhoda
Flights of angels
Collected stories
Light can be both wave and particle
I, Rhoda Manning, go hunting with my daddy, & other stories
Net of Jewels
Light can be both wave & particle
Annunciation.
The annunciation
Nora Jane
Blue-eyed Buddhist and Other Stories
Annunciation.
Ellen Gilchrist
The bitch in the house
Acts of God
Light can be both wave and particle
Nora Jane
Nora Jane and Company
A dagerous age
The land surveyor's daughter
In the land of dreamy dreams
I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting With My Daddy
STARCARBON
Annunciation.
The bitch in the house
Muppets #01
Muppets #02
Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle
In the Land of Dreamy Drea
Sar Conley ARC
Two stories
Drunk W/Love
Revenge
Ellen Gilchrist, Interview
Un air de vérité
Riding Out the Tropical Depression
Sarah Conley Reading Group Companion
The Ammunication
John Kendrick Bangs
John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922)

journalist

  • Columbia Law School

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Mr. Munchausen
A House-Boat on the Styx
The Pursuit of the House-Boat
Alice in Blunderland
Ghost Stories
The Water Ghost and Others
The booming of Acre Hill
The Enchanted Typewriter
R. Holmes & Co.
Paste Jewels
Coffee and repartee
Ghosts I have met and some others
Olympian Nights
The autobiography of Methuselah
Over the plum-pudding
Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica
The idiot
A Rebellious Heroine
The dreamers
A proposal under difficulties
Peeps at people
Mollie and the Unwiseman Abroad
The lorgnette, 1886
The inventions of the idiot
Potted fiction
The Genial Idiot
The Bicyclers, and three other farces
The Idiot at home
Andiron tales
The worsted man
In camp with a tin soldier
From Pillar to Post
Baron Munchausen
Mrs. Raffles
Katharine
Tiddledywink Tales
Monsieur d'En Brochette
The Bicyclers, a Farce
The Time Shop
Jack and the check book
Toppleton's client ; or, A spirit in exile
Bikey the skicycle & other tales of Jimmieboy
Frightful Fifty, Part Two
A line o' cheer for each day o' the year
The Whole family
Songs Of Cheer
Uncle Sam, trustee
Mollie and the unwiseman
Three weeks in politics
Mephistopheles
Coffee and repartee and The idiot
Half-hours with Jimmieboy
Three More Books-the Water Ghosts And Others, the Enchanted Typewriter, Ghosts I Have Met And Some Others
Emblemland
The cheery way
New waggings of old tales
Shylock Homes
A Little book of Christmas
Cobwebs from a library corner
The Spectre Cook of Bangletop
The foothills of Parnassus
Ghosts that Have Haunted Me and Some Others
Roger Camerden
English Surnames, Their Sources and Significations
The Plot That Failed
Jarley's Experiment and Jarley's Thanksgiving
The Strange Misadventures of an Organ
A Houseboat on the Styx with The Pursuit of the Houseboat on the Styx
"Eight brand new bits" of Christmas cheer
A quest for song
The mantel-piece minstrels and other stories
The real thing, and three other farces
A dramatic evening
The Mayor's Lamps
Echoes of cheer
Three books-Paste Jewels, Mr Bonapart of Corsica., A Rebellious Heroine
A prophecy and a plea
The Ghost Club An Unfortunate Episode In
Half Hours with the Idiot
The Balance of Power
Amalgamated Brotherhood of Spooks
The fatal message
Peter Newell's Pictures and Rhymes
Associated Shades
A chafing-dish party
Rollo in Emblemland
The young folk's minstrels
Singular Problem of the Stygian House-Boat
Alice in Wonderland
Houseboat in Hell
Alice in Municipaland
Loss or gain
Harper's lost reviews
Katharine
Catalogue of the second part of the library of Mr. John Kendrick Bangs
The Tiddledywink's poetry book
A House Party: An Account of Stories Told at a Gathering of Famous American Authors
Labor, cheer and love
Mrs. Raffles
Potted fiction
Why I am for Harding, by a man who wanted Wood
Short Stories from Life
Coffee and repartee
To the Rough Riders
The virtue of the shoe
Message to the graduation class of Public School 188
Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica