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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times, The Week, Vulture, Elle, and The Millions A piercing blend of memoir, criticism, and biography examining how women writers across the centuries carved out intellectual freedom for themselves—and how others might do the same I took...

John Buchan’s name is known across the world for The Thirty-Nine Steps. In the past hundred years the classic thriller has never been out of print and has inspired numerous adaptations for film, television, radio and stage, beginning with the celebrated version by Alfred Hitchcock. Yet there was vastly more to ‘JB’. He wrote more than a hundred books - fiction and nonfiction - and a thousand articles for newspapers and magazines.

De un estilo crudo y frontal, este talentoso francés fue un novelista y dramaturgo que además de poeta, músico de jazz, ingeniero y traductor, escribió teatro, letra y música de canciones, cuentos y novelas. Tanto sus admiradas diez novelas como sus actuaciones de jazz lo elevaron a la fama en la literatura y en la música.