american novelists

"Traces the author's healing journey after a traumatizing sexual assault at infamous St. Paul's boarding school, describing how she helped police uncover proof of the school's institutionalized mandate of silence"--OCLC.

"For as long as Augusten Burroughs could remember, he knew things he shouldn't have known. He manifested things that shouldn't have come to pass. And he told exactly no one about this, save one person: his mother. His mother reassured him that it was all perfectly normal, that he was descended from a long line of witches, going back to the days of the early American colonies. And that this family tree was filled with witches. It was a bond that he and his mother shared - until the day she left him in the care of her psychiatrist to be raised in his family (but that's a whole other story). After that, Augusten was on his own"--Jacket flap.

Augusten Burroughs describes his experiences working in advertising in Manhattan and chronicles his battle with alcoholism.

A bestselling author is held captive in a wheelchair, made drug-dependent, and locked in his room by an angry nurse who demands he bring her favorite character back to life.

The author chronicles his life from age twelve to sixteen, living in the bizarre home of his mother's psychiatrist, where he was sexually abused by the doctor's thirty-three-year-old adopted son.

Chronicles the journey of two brothers around the world as they make observations about people, the land, events, and their own inward changes.

". . . [The author's] new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden story of her own life"--Provided by publisher.

Presents biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on seventy-nine contemporary African-American novelists; arranged alphabetically by author's last name.

Contains twenty-three alphabetically arranged essays that provide biographical and critical information about American novelists who have made significant contributions to the body of post-World War II literature; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.

The author chronicles his adolescence and young adulthood, describing the sexual and psychological abuse he suffered in the home of his mother's psychiatrist after she abandoned him there when he was twelve years old.