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• The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. by Robert Milder and Randall Fuller
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
• Journal 02, 1850-September 15, 1851: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 08 (of 20), by Henry David Thoreau, ed. by Bradford Torrey (Gutenberg ebook)
• Journal 01, 1837-1846: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20), by Henry David Thoreau, ed. by Bradford Torrey (Gutenberg ebook)

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• Walden, (New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & co., [c1910]), by Henry David Thoreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoreau, the poet-naturalist : with memorial verses / by William Ellery Channing. (Boston : Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902), by William Ellery Channing (page images at HathiTrust)
• The work of Washington Irving / by Charles Dudley Warner. (New York : Harper & Bros., 1893), by Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Joel Chandler Harris, from obscurity in boyhood to fame in early manhood, (Nashville, Tenn., Dallas Tex. [etc.] Publishing house Methodist Episcopal church, South, Smith & Lamar, agents, 1918), by Robert Lemuel Wiggins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and letters of Washington Irving. By his nephew, Pierre M. Irving. (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1873 [c1869]), by Pierre Munroe Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Washington Irving. (New York, Carlton & Lanahan; San Francisco, E. Thomas; [etc., etc., 1870]), by Charles Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from abroad to kindred at home ... (New-York, Harper & brothers, 1841), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walden, or, Life in the woods, by Henry D. Thoreau, ed. for school use by James Cloyd Bowman. (Chicago, New York, Scott, Foresman and company, [c1917]), by Henry David Thoreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• American writers of to-day / by Henry C. Vedder. (New York : Silver, Burdett and Company, 1895, c1894), by Henry C. Vedder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / by Ferris Greenslet. (Cambridge : Printed at the Riverside Press, 1908), by Ferris Greenslet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Washington Irving, (New York, Phillips & Hunt: Cincinnati, Walden & Stowe, [1883]), by Daniel Wise (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emerson, poet and thinker / by Elisabeth Luther Cary. (New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons : Knickerbocker Press, c1904), by Elisabeth Luther Cary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mark Twain and the Happy Island / by Elizabeth Wallace. (Chicago : A.C. McClurg, 1913), by Elizabeth Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscent sketches by Aella Greene ... ([Florence, Mass., Press of the Bryant print], 1902), by Aella Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Washington Irving for young readers, (New York Chicago [etc.] Werner school book company, [1899]), by Sherwin Cody (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Getting To Be Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Jeffrey Steinbrink (HTML at UC Press)
• The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton (originally published 1999; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James Turner (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849 (Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1987), by Dwight Thomas and David Kelly Jackson (illustrated HTML at eapoe.org)
• The Year 2000: A Critical Biography of Edward Bellamy (New York: Bookman Associates, c1958), by Sylvia E. Bowman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edward Bellamy (New York: Columbia University Press, 1944), by Arthur E. Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mark Twain: Son of Missouri (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1934), by Minnie M. Brashear (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cora Crane: A Biography of Mrs. Stephen Crane (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1960), by Lillian B. Gilkes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Back-Trailers from the Middle Border (New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Hamlin Garland, illust. by Constance Garland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mark Twain's Autobiography (2 volumes; 1924), by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • Volume 2: HTML at Gutenberg Australia
• The Ordeal of Mark Twain (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by Van Wyck Brooks (Gutenberg text)
• A Daughter of the Middle Border (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Hamlin Garland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Autobiography of Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston, by Richard Malcolm Johnston (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Bill Arp: From the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903, by Bill Arp (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Chapters From My Autobiography (as published in issues of the North American Review), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
• Hawthorne's Son: The Life and Literary Career of Julian Hawthorne (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1970), by Maurice Bassan (PDF at Ohio State)
• Henry James (London: Nisbet and Co., c1916), by Rebecca West (multiple formats at archive.org)
• James Russell Lowell: A Biography (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901), by Horace Elisha Scudder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 (2 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915), by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, contrib. by Florence Howe Hall (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Life and Letters of Catharine M. Sedgwick (New York: Harper and Bros., 1872), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, ed. by Mary E. Dewey (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (2 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1906), by Elizabeth Bisland, contrib. by Lafcadio Hearn
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Life of Henry David Thoreau (London: W. Scott, 1896), by Henry S. Salt
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Life on the Mississippi (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1906), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Life on the Mississippi (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), by Mark Twain
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1889), by Louisa May Alcott, ed. by Ednah Dow Cheney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883), by Julia Ward Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life, by Marion Harland (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Mark Twain, by Archibald Henderson (Gutenberg text)
• Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (2 volumes; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1857), by Margaret Fuller, contrib. by James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and W. H. Channing
  • volume I: page images at MOA
  • volume II: page images at MOA
• My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1910), by William Dean Howells (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A New England Girlhood, Outlined From Memory, by Lucy Larcom (Gutenberg text)
• The One I Knew the Best of All: A Memory of the Mind of a Child (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893), by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illust. by Reginald B. Birch (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Our Friend John Burroughs, by Clara Barrus (Gutenberg text)
• R. H. D.: Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Recollections of Seventy Years by Mrs. John Farrar (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865), by Mrs. John Farrar (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Story of a Literary Career (Holyoke, MA: E. Towne, 1905), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, contrib. by Ella Giles Ruddy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Washington Irving, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Through the Shadows With O. Henry (New York: H. K. Fly Co., c1921), by Al Jennings
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)
• Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917), by Richard Harding Davis, ed. by Charles Belmont Davis (HTML at Virginia)
• Auto-Biography of Lemuel Sawyer, by Lemuel Sawyer (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from Her Letters and Journals by Her Son (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1890), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, ed. by Charles Edward Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney, by Samuel M. Janney (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Walden: or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854), by Henry David Thoreau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memories of a hostess : a chronicle of eminent friendships, drawn chiefly from the diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields / by M.A. DeWolfe Howe. (Boston : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1922), by M. A. De Wolfe Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A New England girlhood, outlined from memory, by Lucy Larcom. (Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin company, 1889), by Lucy Larcom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walden, (New York, C. E. Merrill co., [c1910]), by Henry David Thoreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sam Walter Foss : poet, librarian and friend to man / [by Mary S. Woodman]. (Somerville, Mass. : Public Library, 1922), by Mary S. Woodman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walden. (Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1882), by Henry David Thoreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, (Boston, D. Lothrop and company, [1884]), by Emma Elizabeth Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walden; (New York, The Macmillan company, 1910), by Henry David Thoreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Auf dem Mississippi; Nach dem fernen Westen (in German), by Mark Twain, illust. by Albert B. Richter and H. Schrödter (Gutenberg ebook)
• Henry James at Work, by Theodora Bosanquet (Gutenberg ebook)
• Memories of a Hostess: A Chronicle of Eminent Friendships: Drawn Chiefly from the Diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields, by Annie Fields and M. A. De Wolfe Howe (Gutenberg ebook)
• James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2, by Horace Elisha Scudder (Gutenberg ebook)
• James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol. 1/2, by Horace Elisha Scudder (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and Diary, by Daniel Dulany Addison (Gutenberg ebook)
• Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg ebook)
• Nathaniel Parker Willis, by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Henry D. Thoreau, by F. B. Sanborn (Gutenberg ebook)
• Elijah Kellogg, the Man and His Work: Chapters from His Life and Selections from His Writings, ed. by Wilmot Brookings Mitchell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life, by Marion Harland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Luotsina Mississippi-joella: Humoristinen kertomus (in Finnish), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg ebook)
• James Russell Lowell and His Friends, by Edward Everett Hale (Gutenberg ebook)
• Little Pilgrimages Among the Men Who Have Written Famous Books, by E. F. Harkins (Gutenberg ebook)
• Peter Parley's Own Story: From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley"), by Samuel G. Goodrich (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20), by Henry David Thoreau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, by Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Howe Hall, and Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (Gutenberg ebook)
• Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals, by Louisa May Alcott, ed. by Ednah Dow Cheney (Gutenberg ebook)
• Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, by E. E. Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
• Henry James, by Rebecca West (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers, by Henry Childs Merwin (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Home Life of Poe, by Susan Archer Talley Weiss (Gutenberg ebook)
• Reminiscences, 1819-1899, by Julia Ward Howe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli), by Julia Ward Howe (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Son of the Middle Border, by Hamlin Garland (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson: Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself., by George Thompson (Gutenberg ebook)
• James Lane Allen: A Sketch of his Life and Work (Gutenberg ebook)
• Washington Irving, by Henry Walcott Boynton (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Daughter of the Middle Border, by Hamlin Garland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Washington Irving, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg ebook)
• Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II, by Margaret Fuller, ed. by W. H. Channing, James Freeman Clarke, and Ralph Waldo Emerson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I, by Margaret Fuller, ed. by W. H. Channing, James Freeman Clarke, and Ralph Waldo Emerson (Gutenberg ebook)

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