Biography Memoir category: 96853 books
The Invention of Memory
An Irish family scrapbook 1560-1934
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
From the arrival of his first ancestor in Dublin in 1560, Simon Loftus traces the fascinating story of his family’s heritage in Ireland - piecing together fragments of legend and biography that span over 350 years of Irish history.
The background is the colonial conquest of Ireland and the...
by Billie Burke, Cameron Shipp
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Following on from her successful 1949 memoir “With a Feather on My Nose,” here we have a further biography, first published in 1959, from famous Broadway and early silent film actress Billie Burke, best known as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in The Wizard of Oz and widow of Broadway producer...
by JESSICA ESTREMERA
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK If the names Allie and Noah call to your mind two young sweethearts who in turn pull at your heartstrings, then chances are you are familiar with their creator, Nicholas Sparks. As one of the world’s preeminent storytellers, Nicholas Sparks has penned highly popular love stories...
by Thomas Neville Bonner
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Abraham Flexner (1866-1959), raised in Louisville, Kentucky in a family of poor Jewish immigrants from Germany, attended the Johns Hopkins University in the first decade of its existence. After graduating in 1886, he founded, four years before John Dewey’s Chicago “laboratory school,” a progressive...
The Most Beautiful Girl
A True Story of a Dad, a Daughter and the Healing Power of Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
The Most Beautiful Girl is a heartbreaking yet uplifting memoir of a daughter, her father, and the healing power of music. The story opens with a scene at Johnny Cash’s funeral when author Tamara Saviano is struck with grief about unfinished business with her father. Robert Ruditys died two years before...
Looking Back
A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
A memoir of what it was like to be a teenager in a tumultuous era, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Best of Us.
Joyce Maynard was eighteen years old when her 1972 New York Times Magazine cover story catapulted her to national prominence. Published one year later, Looking...
Down the Highway
The Life of Bob Dylan
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
The acclaimed biography—now updated and revised. “Many writers have tried to probe [Dylan’s] life, but never has it been done so well, so captivatingly” (The Boston Globe).
Howard Sounes’s Down the Highway broke news about Dylan’s fiercely guarded personal life and set the standard...
A Guest in my Own Country
A Hungarian Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography & Memoir
A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals.
When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed...
The Undiscovered Paul Robeson
Quest for Freedom, 1939 - 1976
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
The eagerly awaited second volume of Paul Robeson Jr.'s acclaimed biography of his father, the legendary singer, actor, and social activist.
The greatest scholar-athlete-performing artist in U.S. history, Paul Robeson was one of the most compelling figures of the twentieth century. In this...
by Denise Scott
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Written with Denise's trademark candour, All That Happened at Number 26 is part memoir, part stand-up comedy and completely beguiling.I'll never forget the first time John and I saw number 26. We just knew it was going to be ours. It was so awful and ugly and repulsive in every way, not to mention...
My Father Wakes up Laughing
The Story of Edward and Janet Simons and Their Musical Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
"Jo's romp through her family's personal and public history keeps just the right balance between insider perspective and music history review, with plenty of her clear, warm voice to carry the reader through."
-Miriam Hall, writing teacher
In this biography of her parents, Jo Simons...
The Life of Yogananda
The Story of the Yogi Who Became the First Modern Guru
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
He was called “the 20th century’s first superstar guru” (Los Angeles Times), and today, nearly a century after he arrived in the United States, he’s still the best known and most beloved of all the Indian spiritual teachers who have come to the West. Now, finally, Paramahansa Yogananda has...
by Michael Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Despite quadruple heart bypass surgery, fear of failure, and concern also at being labelled a copycat for repeating the theme of the movie The Way—walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in memory of a lost son—64 year-old Melbourne writer Michael Thornton takes on the often gruelling 800km...
Who Killed Mom?
A Delinquent Son's Meditation on Family, Mortality, and Very Tacky Candles
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
"A touching -- if decidedly and deliberately offbeat -- family memoir...Expect to encounter laughs and tugs on the heartstrings in pretty much equal amounts." -- Booklist
"Burgess has written not only the funniest book published this year, but one of the most moving memoirs Canada's...