Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography books

Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau’s work combines two of his most celebrated essays, Walden and “On the Duty of Civil…

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s “Life on the Mississippi” is a first‑hand travel memoir that plunges the reader into the gritty…

A Daughter of the Middle Border

Hamlin Garland

The work is a semi‑autobiographical narrative by Hamlin Garland, an American writer whose career spanned the…

Mark Twain: A Biography. Complete

Albert Bigelow Paine

Albert Bigelow Paine’s work is a biographical study that situates Mark Twain within the broader currents of…

Washington Irving

Henry Walcott Boynton

The work is a biographical sketch of Washington Irving, the first American writer to achieve lasting fame…

Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals

Louisa May Alcott

The work is a biographical study of Louisa May Alcott that combines narrative history with selections from…

Memoirs

Charles Godfrey Leland

The work is an autobiographical memoir by Charles Godfrey Leland, a 19th‑century American writer and scholar.

Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The work is a meticulously compiled biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe, assembled by her son Charles E.

Chapters from My Autobiography

Mark Twain

The work is an autobiographical fragment by Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, drawn from a…

The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2

Elizabeth Bisland

The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2, edited by Elizabeth Bisland, is a compiled collection of…

The Maine Woods The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20)

Henry David Thoreau

The Maine Woods is a posthumously assembled travel narrative by Henry David Thoreau, drawn from his journal…

The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1

Elizabeth Bisland

James Russell Lowell, A Biography; Vol 2/2

Horace Elisha Scudder

Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910

Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe; Elliott, Maud Howe; Hall, Florence Howe

Reminiscences, 1819-1899

Julia Ward Howe

Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship

William Dean Howells

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers

Henry Childs Merwin

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Henry A. Beers

Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 2: 1866-1875

Albert Bigelow Paine

A Son of the Middle Border

Hamlin Garland

Mark Twain

Archibald Henderson

Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life

Marion Harland

Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900

Albert Bigelow Paine