Autobiography | Biography and Memoir
Sep.25.2009
"He is adopted and very proud of it," reads the blurb on the back cover of this interesting little paperback. "Just Chris" begins just as one would expect - at the beginning of Chris. We learn some of the difficulties encountered in finding willing adoptive families for those...
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Sep.16.2009
Memoir of Jeanette Feldman, who overcame poverty and family struggles in the South Bronx during the Great Depression to become a fine artist, enjoy a loving family, and travel the world. Edited by Nadine Galinsky Feldman, Patchwork includes full-color photographs of the author's work.
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Aug.18.2009
A family saga set in the green heartlands of Ohio's Appalachia.
"In this fine Appalachian novel, Larry Smith chronicles four generations of McCalls, their joys and sorrows, their sins and their nobility....Such regional fiction has always been about people: their connections with one another...
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Jul.29.2009
In this debut Liu contemplates the interweavings of migration, love, memory and mourning in an autobiography of poems spanning four years. Beginning with the untimely death of his mother, this collection contemplates the difficult task of transforming one's relationship with the dead and and the...
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Jun.03.2009
In these personal, evocative, original essays, thirty contemporary black and white, young and older writers--from Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Award winners to brand new voices--share their intimate racial experiences as they take unflinching looks at society and themselves. An incisive, powerful...
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Mar.04.2009
The American Poet Who Went Home Again is a book of creative nonfiction that blends memoir, literary journalism, history, and biography to tell the story of one writer’s rediscovery of his family, his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, and himself.
Just like modern literary life, the book expands...
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Feb.18.2009
Blumenthal, a poet and director of Harvard's creative writing program, has written the touching story of his search for his true identity. After he was born, his biological parents left him to be raised by his aunt and uncle; it was not until later that he discovered that his "parents"...
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Feb.09.2009
The University of Alabama Press says about the book: "Known widely in Europe as "interpretive narrative archaeology," the practice of using creative methods to interpret and present current knowledge of the past is gaining popularity in North America. This book is the first...
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Feb.09.2009
My essay "A Closing Circle: Musings on the Ioway Indians in Iowa" is in The Worlds Between Two Rivers: Perspectives on American Indians in Iowa (An Expanded Edition), Edited by Gretchen M. Bataille, David Mayer Gradwohl, and Charles L. P. Silet. The book is a revised expanded 2000 edition...
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Feb.05.2009
Have you ever wanted to create your own autobiography or wished you had the life stories of a relative or friend? Beautifully revised and updated in 2007 from the the 1997 original edition, The Book of Myself is a do-it-yourself memoir that helps you record and preserve the experiences and...
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