Biography Memoir category: 96853 books
The Taciturn Man
and other Tales of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
An immigrant's tale of an untamed country
Alexander Gibson, my father, was a young Englishman who with his brother settled in Australia in the 1920s. The brothers each married one of the Solomon sisters just prior to the Great Depression. The Taciturn Man begins just after the Second World War when...
by Niels Blaedel
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
“Blaedel has addressed himself to the task of writing a full-length biography that covers all facets of his subject and that emphasizes that they form part of one harmonious unity. I think that on the whole he has succeeded remarkably well. He gives an accurate picture of the man theorists of my...
Life Writing
A Writers' and Artists' Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Life Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing biography, autobiography and memoir.
PART 1 explores the history and forms of life writing and the challenges and potential pitfalls of the genre.
PART 2 includes tips by bestselling writers: Diana Athill,...
by Sally Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Written in a sweeping, almost literary style, this detailed biography of Clifton Pugh is a landmark volume that offers an alternative perspective to the biography of Clifton's former wife, Judith Pugh's Unstill Life (2008
Entwined
Sisters and Secrets in the Silent World of Artist Judith Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
The remarkable story of “outsider” artist Judith Scott, who was institutionalized for more than thirty years before being reunited with her sister
From birth, fraternal twins Judith and Joyce Scott lived as if they were one person in two bodies, understanding instinctively what the other...
The Monkey and the Dragon
a True Story About Friendship, Music, Politics & Liife on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Memoir, biography and travel book, The Monkey and the Dragon is a story about China like nothing you've ever read.
This is a book about friendship, music, politics and life on the edge. Linda Jaivin first met Taiwan pop star Hou Dejian in 1981 when she was a journalist in Hong Kong, and his...
Unbound
Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
What does it mean to be Ukrainian in contemporary Canada? The Ukrainian Canadian writers in Unbound challenge the conventions of genre – memoir, fiction, poetry, biography, essay – and the boundaries that separate ethnic and authorial identities and fictional and non-fictional narratives. These...
by Nicholas Mosley
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Although Nicholas Mosley has written two volumes of family biography and a volume of memoirs, he has, until now, avoided writing about his World War Two experiences.
The son of Sir Oswald Mosley who, as the leader of the British Union of Fascists, had been jailed with his second wife, Diana...
by Trevor Herriot
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Trevor Herriot’s memoir and history of the Qu’Appelle River Valley has won the CBA Libris Award for First-Time Author, the Writers’ Trust Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, and the Regina Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction.
A Life in the Bush
Lessons from My Father
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Winner of
The CAA–Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography
The 2000 Ottawa-Carlton Book Award
The (U.S.) Rutstrum Award for Best Wilderness Book
“A portrait of a true original.”—The Hamilton Spectator
In 1929, at the age of twenty-two, Duncan MacGregor, the son of a...
by Greame C.
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012
This book is part of Hyperink's best little books series. This best little book is 3,500+ words of fast, entertaining information on a highly demanded topic. Based on reader feedback (including yours!), we may expand this book in the future. If we do so, we'll send a free copy to all previous buyers.ABOUT...
The Doryman's Reflection
A Fisherman's Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
What happens when the oceans are emptied of all their fish? What happens when three hundred years of human knowledge and expertise disappear before the onslaught of the technology-driven world?
The Doryman’s Reflection is simply the most accurate and eloquent account of what transpired in...
Citizen Rauh
An American Liberal's Life in Law and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
"Joe Rauh was the type of lawyer who comes along maybe once in a generation---talented, politically astute, effective, and stubbornly devoted to principles, the type of person who not only could but did make a difference. He deserves a biography that explores not only his persona, but the America...
Keith Douglas, 1920-1944
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Keith Douglas was almost certainly the greatest poet of the Second World War. He was killed in Normandy three days after D-Day. He was only twenty-four. His short life was one of contradictions: the gifted artist and romantic, always in love with the wrong girl also enjoyed soldiering and was quick...