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poets who wrote autobiography
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Paul Goodman
Paul Goodman (1911-1972)

poet, psychotherapist, sociologist, literary critic, LGBTQ rights activist, political scientist, philosopher

  • University of Chicago, City College of New York

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Gestalt Therapy
Utopian essays and practical proposals
Making Do
New reformation
The Empire City
Communitas
The Structure of Literature
The galley to Mytilene
Drawing the Line Once Again
The society I live in is mine
The May Pamphlet
Like a conquered province
The facts of life
Compulsory mis-education
Seeds of liberation
Collected poems
Kafka's Prayer
Little prayers & finite experience
The break-up of our camp
Parent's Day
Our visit to Niagara
Nature heals =
Crazy hope and finite experience
Hawkweed; poems
Of One Blood
The moral ambiguity of America
Speaking and language: defence of poetry
The Paul Goodman Reader
Don Juan
Terapia Gestalt
Format & Anxiety
Work in a modern society
Stop-light
People or personnel
A ceremonial, stories, 1936-1940
Creator Spirit come!
The Grand piano
Information bulletin No.3
The community of scholars
Art and social nature
Freedom and order in the university
Creator Spirit Come
Homespun of oatmeal gray
Erziehung – Zwangsjacke oder Freiheit
Decentralizing power
The lordly Hudson
The Copernican revolution
The black flag of anarchism
The Democratic-Republicans of Massachusetts
The collected stories
Five years
Adam and his works
A Fragment of Victory in Italy
North Percy
The state of nature
La contre-éducation obligatoire
The dead of spring
Problemas de la juventud en la sociedad organizada
Tragedy and comedy: four cubist plays
La estructura de la obra literaria
A Message to the Military Industrial Complex
The open look
Making do
Dawson Turner
La nueva reforma
Tres Ciudades para El Hombre
New reformation
La des-educación obligatoria
Communitas
Ensayos utópicos y propuestas prácticas
Gestalt Therapy
Mass education in science
Gestalt Therapy
Silence, speaking and language
Red jacket ...
Homecoming & departure
The Copernican revolution
Day and other poems
A warning at my leisure
Ten poems
The writings of Paul Goodman
Gestalt - Therapie. Wiederbelebung des Selbst
Gestalt - Therapie. Lebensfreude und Persönlichkeitsentfaltung
The drama of awareness
Three early stories
Nature Heals
The dead of spring
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet (born 1979)

Esperantist, computer scientist, poet

  • The Open University

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Embracing the Wide Sky
Born on a Blue Day
NACIDO EN UN DIA AZUL
Thinking in Numbers
Je suis né un jour bleu
Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing
Embrasser Le Ciel Immense
Mishenka (French Edition)
La conquista del cerebro
La poesía de los números
Urodziłem się pewnego błękitnego dnia
Islands of Genius
Fragments de paradis (French Edition)
How to Be 'Normal'
Nine Minds
Born on a Blue Day (Digital Download)
Je Suis Ne un Jour Bleu
Reinaldo Arenas Fuentes
Reinaldo Arenas Fuentes (1943-1990)

poet, playwright, librarian

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Old Rosa
Otra vez el mar
El mundo alucinante
The Color of Summer, or the New Garden of Earthly Delights
Celestino antes del alba
The Palace of the White Skunks
Mona and other tales
Antes que anochezca
Singing from the Well
El palacio de las blanquísimas mofetas
El Asalto / the Assault
Hallucinations, being an account of the life and adventures of Friar Servando Teresa de Mier
Termina el desfile
Celestino Antes Del Alba
Adiós a mamá
Otra Vez El Mar/Once Again, the Sea
The palace of the white skunks
Graveyard of the Angels
Conversación con Reinaldo Arenas
The ill-fated peregrinations of Fray Servando
Arturo, la estrella más brillante
Autoepitaph Selected Poems
Mundo alucinante
I was Cuba
Final de un cuento
Central, El
El Portero (Colección el Angel de la Jiribilla)
Voluntad de vivir manifestándose
El Mundo Alucinante/A Hallucinations (Fabula) (Fabula)
Necesidad de libertad
Mona and other tales
Viaje a La Habana
Persecución
Voluntad de Vivir Manifestandose
El asalto
Termina El Desfile, Seguido De Adios a Mama/ End of the Parade
El Mundo Alucinante
El Palacio De Las Blanquisimas Mofetas/the Palace of the Whitest Skunks
Leprosorio
El Central
Homenaje a Angel Cuadra
El palacio de las blanquisimas mofetas
Antes que anochezca
Con los ojos cerrados
La loma del angel
Cantando en el pozo
Sobre los astros
Inferno
Adios a mama
Bevor es Nacht wird. Ein Leben in Havanna
Adios a Mama - de La Habana a Nueva York
Antes que anoiteça
Reise nach Havanna. Roman in drei Reisen
O mundo alucinante
Un Plebiscito a Fidel Castro
Termina el desfile seguido de adiós a mamá
La loma del ángel
Der Palast der blütenweissen Stinktiere
Celestino antes del alba
Selesṭino lifene ha-shaḥar
El mundo alucinante
Libro de Arenas
לפני שירד הלילה
La vieja Rosa
Plebiscito a Fidel Castro
La couleur de l'été ou Nouveau Jardin des délices
Avant la nuit
El mundo alucinate
Lazarillo De Tormes Level 3
Necesidad de libertad
La loma del ángel
Le Serpent à plumes. 15, [Le grand cri caraïbe]
LE PALAIS DES TRÈS BLANCHES MOUFFETTES
Le monde hallucinant
John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963)

poet, philosopher, literary critic

  • University of Cambridge, Sherborne School

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A Glastonbury Romance
Wolf Solent
Owen Glendower
Porius
Maiden Castle
Weymouth Sands
The Meaning of Culture
Visions and revisions
The Brazen Head
Morwyn
Wood and Stone
After My Fashion
The Art of Happiness
The complex vision
Atlantis
Homer and the Aether
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Hal W. and Violet Trovillion
Autobiography
Rodmoor
Confessions of two brothers, John Cowper Powys [and] Llewellyn Powys
Suspended judgments
Mortal strife
One hundred Dante books
Samphire
Mandragora
Ducdame
Three fantasies
Dostoevsky
Letters from John Cowper Powys to Glyn Hughes
Les sables de la mer
The pleasures of literature
The diary of John Cowper Powys 1931
Essays On De Gourmont And Byron
One hundred best books, with commentary and an essay on books and reading
John Cowper Powys letter, 1937-54
Odes and Other Poems
In defense of sensuality
Essays on de Maupassant, Anatole France, William Blake
Romer Mowl and other stories
Up and Out
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Ichiro Hara
The letters of John Cowper Powys to G.R. Wilson Knight
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Philippa Powys
La fosse aux chiens
The diary of John Cowper Powys, 1930
Rabelais, his life
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Frances Gregg
John Keats, or, Popular paganism
The art of growing old
The Dorset year
The diary of John Cowper Powys
Wolf's-Bane
Powys on Keats
The Inmates
All or Nothing
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Sven-Erik Täckmark
Les enchantements de Glastonbury
In spite of
The war and culture
Dorothy M. Richardson
Letters of John Cowper Powys to his brother Llewellyn
An Englishman up-state
Real Wraiths
Letters from John Cowper Powys to Clifford Tolchard
A philosophy of solitude
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Frank Warren
The letters of John Cowper Powys and Dorothy Richardson
Jobber Skald
Letters to Henry Miller
The religion of a sceptic
John Cowper Powys
Psychoanalysis and morality
The diary of John Cowper Powys for 1929
Granit
Obstinate Cymric
Paddock calls
Letters from John Cowper Powys to C. Benson Roberts
100 Best Books
Letters of John Cowper Powys to Louis Wilkinson, 1935-1956
Poems 1899
Rabelais : His life
Suspended judgments, essays on books and sensations
The pleasures of literature;
Owen Glendower T1 Les tours de Mathrafal
John Cowper Powys
Wolf's-Bane Rhymes
Den Otidsenlige och den aktuelle
Brazen Head
Letters to His Brother Llewellyn Volume I (1975)
Poems
John Cowper Powys Autobiography
LES ENCHANTEMENTS DE GLASTONBURY (DU MONDE ENTIER)
Samphire
Visions and Revisions; a Book of Literary Devotions
Powys and Lord Jim
V & a Style Calendar 2006
Complex Vision
John Cowper Powys on vivisection in "Autobiography."
Wolf Solent
Confessions of Two Brothers, John Cowper Powys [and] Llewellyn Powys
Syllabus of a course of six lectures on English novelists
Dostoievsky
John Cowper Powys on Thomas Hardy
Nathalie Sarraute
Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999)

playwright, poet lawyer, lawyer, literary critic

  • Lycée Fénelon, Paris

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Childhood
Childhood
"Fools say"
Enfance
Enfance
Plays
Disent les imbéciles
Ere du soupçon
Vous les entendez?
Martereau
Tropismes
Tropisms
Le planétarium
Portrait d'un inconnu
You don't love yourself
Here
Martereau
Ouvrez
Nathalie Sarraute
Usage de la parole
L'Usage de la Parole
Classiques
The planetarium
Just for nothing
Entretiens avec Nathalie Sarraute
Entre la Vie et la Mort
L' ère du soupçon
L' ere du soupcon
Do You Hear Them?
ICI
Portrait of a man unknown, a novel
Collected plays
Le planétarium, roman
Tropisms
Enfance
Isma
L'usage de la parole
Monique Gosselin présente 'Enfance' de Nathalie Sarraute
L'e ̀re du soupçon
The planetarium
Martereau
Die goldenen Früchte
Vous les entendez? roman
Œuvres complètes
C'est beau
Tropisms, and The age of suspicion
Ouvrez
Fools Say (Calderbooks)
Tropisms
Silence & The lie
Pour un oui ou pour un non
Ici
Silence
Martereau
Elle est là
Tu NE T'Aimes Pas
Le silence
Théâtre /Nathalie Sarraute.. --
Portrait d'un inconnu
The use of speech
Disent les imbéciles
Portrait d'un inconnu
Entre la vie et la mort
Le planétarium
Do you hear them? A novel
Isma
Oeuvres complètes
Martereau
Theater
Tu No Te Quieres
Silence and the Lie (Playscripts)
Martereau, a novel
Enfance
Vous les entendez?
Planetarium
Palavras em aberto
Les Fruits d'Or (Folio) (French Edition) by Nathalie Sarraute (1973-05-01)
Le planetarium
Uses of Speech
Vous les entendez?
L' ere du soupcon
Yönelisler
Pour un oui ou pour un non (La Bibliothèque Gallimard) (French Edition)
Le\Silence / le Mensonge
Silence
L' Ere du soupçon
Le planetarium
Ṭropizmis
Tu ne t'aimes pas
Tropismes
You Don't Love Yourself
Isma
Silenci; La Mentida; Ella és Aquí
Kindheit
Pour un oui ou pour un non
The Planetarium (Jupiter Books)
L'enfant
The Planetarium, a Novel
Portrait of a Man Unknown
Le planetarium. --
Isma, ou
Conversations avec Nathalie Sarraute
Sedayash ra mishnavid
Portrait d'un inconnu
Le planétarium
הפלנטאריום
Theatre
Portrait d'un inconnu
Between life and death
Tropismen
Le planétarium
Entre la vie et la mort
Théâtre
Do You Hear Them?
Portrait eines Unbekannten
El Planetario/Planetarium
Entre La Vie et La Mort
Portrait d'un inconnu / preface de jean paul sartre
The age of suspicion
Portrait of a Man Unknown (Calderbooks)
Zdesʹ
TROPISMES
Planétarium
The golden fruits
Portrait d'un inconnu
Isma ou ce qui s'appelle rien, suivi de Le Silence et Le Mensonge
Tropismos
Retrato De Un Desconocido
Theatre
Le Planetarium; Roman
Disent les imbeciles
L' usage de la parole
Portrait d'un inconnu
Bāz kunīd
L' ère du soupçon
Pour un oui ou pour un non
Between life anddeath
Le Planetarium
Lettres d'Amérique
L' ere du soupcon
Tropismes de Nathalie Sarraute
Disent les imbéciles
Between Life and Death
Aufmachen
The a tre
Portrait of a Man Unknown, a Novel
Le silence
Portrait d'un inconnu
Martereau, roman
Paul Valéry et l'enfant d'éléphant ; Flaubert le précurseur
The age of suspicion
Le planétarium
Martereau
Tropisms
Golden Fruits
Portrait of a man unknown
Age of Suspicion
Silence (Folio Theatre) (English and French Edition)
Portrait d'un inconnu
Albert Vigoleis Thelen
Albert Vigoleis Thelen (1903-1989)

translator, poet

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Kalicharan Pattnaik
Kalicharan Pattnaik (1897-1978)

playwright, poet, autobiographer

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Constant von Wurzbach
Constant von Wurzbach (1818-1893)

lexicographer, biographer, poet, military personnel, autobiographer, translator, bibliographer, opinion journalist, official, librarian

  • University of Graz, Lviv University

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Die Sprichwörter der Polen historisch erläutert: Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss ..
Biographisches lexikon des kaiserthums Oesterreich
Mozart-buch
Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, enthaltend die Lebensskizzen der denkwürdigen Personen, welche seit 1750 in den österreichischen Kronländern geboren wurden oder darin gelebt und gewirkt haben
Joseph Haydn und sein Bruder Michael
Mozart-buch
Die Sprichwörter der Polen historisch erläutert
Mozart-Buch
Historische wörter, sprichwörter und redensarten
Mozart-buch
Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, Enthaltend Die Lebensskizzen der Denkwürdigen Perosnen, Welche Seit 1750 in Den Österreichischen Kronländern Geboren Wurden Oder Darin Gelebt und Gewirkt Haben, Zehnter Theil
Historische Wörter, Sprichwörter und Redensarten in Erläuterungen
Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, Zweiundzwanzigster Theil
Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich
Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. Vierunddreissigster Theil
Biographisches Lexikon Des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, Vol. 32
Das Schillerbuch
Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. Sechsundfünfzigster Theil
Glimpf und Schimpf in Spruch und Wort. Sprach- und sittengeschichtliche ..
Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, Enthaltend Die Lebensskizzen der Denkwürdigen Perosnen, Welche Seit 1750 in Den Österreichischen Kronländern Geboren Wurden Oder Darin Gelebt und Gewirkt Haben, Zweiundzwanzigster Theil
Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, Enthaltend Lebensskizzen der Denkwürdigen Perosnen, Welche Seit 1750 in Den Österreichischen Kronländern Geboren Wurden Oder Darin Gelebt und Gewirkt Haben. Einundfünfzigster Theil
Bibliographisch-statistische Übersicht der Literatur des österreichischen Kaiserstaates. 1854-55
Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, Enthaltend Die Lebensskizzen der Denkwürdigen Personen, Welche Seit 1750 in Den Österreichischen Kronländern Geboren Wurden Oder Darin Gelebt und Gewirkt Haben, Volumes 58-59
Die Kirchen der Stadt Krakau
Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, Zwanzigster Theil
Biographisches Lexikon Des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, Vol. 14
Rokitansky
Das Elisabethen-Buch
Register zu den Nachträgen in Wurzbachs Biographischem Lexikon d. Kaiserthums Österreich
Bibliographisch-statistische Übersicht der Literatur des österreichischen Kaiserstaates. 1854-55 (1856)
Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer