Diaries, Letters & Journals

Jim Henson's iconic puppet characters, fantastic worlds, and warm humor have delighted millions of people of all ages. His incredibly diverse body ...

On 2 February 1990, FW de Klerk made a speech that changed the history of South Africa. Nine days later, the world watched as Nelson Mandela walked...

In this series of letters to William Townend, a fellow-writer and friend since their schooldays at Dulwich College, Wodehouse discusses in some det...

The same inimitable voice and dazzling insights that make Emily Dickinson's poems immortal can be found in the whimsical, humorous, and often deepl...

The tempestuous email correspondence between Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark, shimmering with insight, gossip, sex, and cultural commentary. Why ...

Lawrence Ferlinghettilegendary poet and best-selling authorcollects here his travel journals. Traversing the latter half of the twentieth century t...

George Orwell was a tireless and lively correspondent. He communicated with family members, friends and newspapers, figures such as Henry Miller, C...

At the time of his death in 1998, Alfred Kazin was considered one of the most influential intellectuals of postwar America. What is less well known...

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES'His last great work of art' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian'Cruel, sexy, and sometimes heartbreaking ... Warhol is no neutral ...

 Shares long-distance cycling adventures in this highly entertaining and personal story. Blends the love of cycling with engaging accounts of peopl...

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 19261929, featuring many previously unpublished letters, follows a rising star as he emerges from the li...

Congress adjourned on 18 May 1852 for Louisa Catherine Adamss funeral, according her an honor never before offered a first lady. But her life and i...

Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalins Russia in the 1930s di...

The Missouri History Museum archives are bursting with collections that provide firsthand accounts of both historic and everyday moments, but when ...

Love Letters from Golok chronicles the courtship between two Buddhist tantric masters, Tare Lhamo (1938-2002) and Namtrul Rinpoche (1944-2011), and...

Ernst Junger was one of twentieth-century Germany''s most important-and most controversial-writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the au...

Co-published with the European Ethnological Research Centre in the Flashbacks series. Andrew Ramage was the son of a farm servant and he himself wo...

New York, May, 1950. A warm Spring day and a short, and portly, thirty-five year old Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, pushes through the plush revolving d...