Biography and Memoir | Biography and Memoir
Jun.05.2009
The biography of a 19th-century Mormon pioneer who became a celebrity after she was captured, raised, and tattooed on the face by Southwest Indians, then ransomed back five years later.
“Margot Mifflin has written a winner… The Blue Tattoo offers quite intense drama along with thorough scholarship...
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Jun.02.2009
A collection of first person narrative *performance* poems, a precursor to "madness like morning glories."
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Jun.01.2009
From Publishers WeeklyIn December 1965, David Spears said good-bye to his wife and three children and went to fight in Vietnam; he returned "in a cargo plane full of caskets" in July 1966. His family has never been the same. "He was the center of what made me feel safe,"...
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May.23.2009
This article analyzes Oscar Wilde's alcoholism and self-destructive personality as the adult child of alcoholics and as a romance addict who preferred younger men.
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May.22.2009
From the Book Jacket:
More than merely a popular television show, Star Trek has evolved from its original subculture status to a cultural icon, a modern American mythology, and a prescient leap into the future. From the beginning, it was a forum where its creator and its viewers could explore...
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Mar.16.2009
Literary Savannah was among the first in a series of literary travel anthologies published by Hill Street Press when the company was founded in the late 1990s. To include the city of Savannah, Georgia, in such a series would have made good sense at pretty much any time but particularly during the...
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Mar.12.2009
In his many novels, poetry, histories, editorials, plays, and letters, W. E. B. Du Bois poured so much of his blindingly incandescent soul into his writings that no single volume could ever contain all of his words or works. In fact, had not the historian David Levering Lewis taken it upon himself...
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Mar.05.2009
ELEMENTAL The Power of Illuminated Love
ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love (ISBN 0972114270) is a celebrated gift book by two acclaimed creative artists: painter Luther E. Vann, whose work was exhibited at the Telfair Museum Jepson Center for the Arts throughout Summer 2008 in Savannah, Ga...
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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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Jan.07.2009
A mosaic sketch of the twentieth century's leading chemist, and the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes, comprised of excerpts from his writings and original commentary.
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