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Old 12-18-2016, 10:37 PM   #80
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Originally Posted by ATDrake View Post
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For you, some ORM non-fiction I noticed while sorting through my acquisitions. This is only a tiny fragment of what's available for non-fic, though, and a lot of fiction authors wrote in multiple fields and/or have memoirs and essay collections.
  • Biographies: Diana Souhami, Marion Meade, Catherine O'Sullivan Shore, Ruth Gruber, Fred Kaplan
  • Cookbooks: James Beard, Marlene Dietrich, Gioietta Vitale
  • Essays/Autobiographies: Alice Walker, Rebecca West, Iris Murdoch, John Gardner, May Sarton, Geoffrey Householder, Candy Darling
  • History: Rebecca West, Walter Lord, Ernie Bradshaw, Emily Hahn
  • Investigative, Journalism, True Crime: Ruth Gruber, Gordon Thomas, Joseph DiMona
  • Mythology, Folklore & Legend: Bernard Evslin, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Sorche N Leodhas
  • Industry Retrospectives/Advice: Richard Curtis (writing and literary agency), Richard Kirshenbaum (advertising), Helen Gurley Brown (relationship advice), Herbert Warren Wind (sports)
  • Literary/Arts Criticism: Mary McCarthy, George Steiner
  • Travel Writing: Laurence Durrell, Tristan Jones, Emily Hahn

Mix of Fiction & Non- for particular subject interest
  • LGBT: Paul Monette, Jane Rule, William J. Mann, Helen Eisenbach, Diana Souhami
  • Feminist & other activist: Alix Shulman, Robin Morgan, Jessica Amanda Salmonson
  • Indigenous & African-American & Jewish & other cultural: Ray Young Bear, Alice Walker, Virginia Hamilton, Peter Singer, Clancy Sigal, Howard Engel, Johanna Kaplan
More helpful information, I think. I say, "I think," because I bought so many books so fast that I can't remember if I got all of the ones that you mentioned. I'm going to have to go back and check.

Sometimes I wish that I had a photographic memory . . . .
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