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- What comes next and how to like it : a memoir
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- Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs : living and writing in the West
- Why didn't you tell me? : a memoir
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- William Dudley Pelley : a life in right-wing extremism and the occult
- William Maxwell : a literary life
- William S. Burroughs : a man within
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- You are not I : a portrait of Paul Bowles
- You might as well live : the life and times of Dorothy Parker
- You'll be okay : my life with Jack Kerouac
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- Zelda; : a biography
- Zora Neale Hurston : a biography of the spirit
- Zora Neale Hurston : jump at the sun
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