Biography Memoir category: 96853 books
Griffith REVIEW 33
Such is Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
There seems no end to our hunger for the stories of real people facing impossible odds or dealing with the mundanity of life. Yet not every life story finds - or deserves - an audience in addition to Facebook.
Such is Life presents a dazzling selection of new memoir, personal essay and biography...
by Valerie Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
What can the few remaining survivors of the Holocaust teach us before they are gone? What is it that hasn’t yet been said? A high school teacher is given the opportunity to find out when one such survivor chooses her to preserve her final testament. In The Risk of Sorrow, Valerie Foster, an Irish-Catholic...
People Like Us
Life with Rob Lacey, Author of The Word on the Street
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
“I want to die fully alive so my soul’s got extended capacity for heaven.”—Rob LaceyPeople Like Us is the story of Rob Lacey, poet, actor, and award-winning author of The Street Bible. It is so much more than Rob Lacey’s biography.A Long Way Home is the passionate and poetic account of an...
From Zero to Eighty
Two African American Men’S Narrative of Racism, Suffering, Survival, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Through the lens of age, racism, and suffering, From Zero to Eighty narrates a history of what has not been written about older African American men. In this memoir, author Helen K. Black tells the life stories of John T. Groce and Charles E. Harmon against the backdrop of deep-seated cultural beliefs...
by John Buchan
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
A fascinating biography of Lord Minto once governor of Canada and Viceroy of India. Written by John Buchan from original letters and documents.
by Maggie Ziegler
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Part memoir, part biography, infused with imaginative story-telling, The Road to Keringet is a compelling tale of a mother’s life and a tender exploration of a mother-daughter relationship.
Maggie Ziegler’s mother had spent much of her life in love with words. When her mind begins...
by Richard Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
A post–World War II memoir of a childhood in working-class Pittsburgh
“Alongside August Wilson and John Edgar Wideman, Richard Peterson is among the most evocative chroniclers of Pittsburgh, their colorful hometown. I loved Growing Up With Clemente for both its unnostalgic lyricism and...
The Mentor
A Memoir of Friendship and Gay Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Examine a moving, personal narrative about growing up gay in the south!
Students, teachers, and anyone interested in gay studies and experiences will find that The Mentor: A Memoir of Friendship and Gay Identity (a 2001 Lambda Literary Foundation Gay Male Biography/Autobiography Award finalist)...
Tales of Imperial Russia
The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
History and biography meet in Tales of Imperial Russia, a study of the late-Romanov Russian Empire, told through the figure of Sergei Witte. Like Bismarck or Gorbachev, Witte was a European statesman serving an empire. He was the most important statesman of pre-revolutionary Russia. In the Georgia,...
Without Walls
A memoir by Milton Toubkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Without Walls is Milton’s Toubkin’s unique memoir, which begins with an impoverished, but generally happy, early childhood in South Africa and ends with Milton’s retirement. Like most people, Milton faced many difficulties throughout his life, ranging from the divorce of his parents, his mother’s...
The Life & Times of Mark Twain - 4 Biographical Works in One Edition
Chapters From My Autobiography By Mark Twain, My Mark Twain By William Dean Howells', Mark Twain A Biography By Albert Bigelow Paine, The Boys' Life Of Mark Twain…
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Mark Twain began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of these Chapters from my Autobiography. He originally planned to have his memoirs published only after his death but realized, once he'd passed his 70th year, that a lot of the material might be OK to publish before his...
A Stone for Plot Four
Or Mendez, a Quest
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Over sixty years ago, poet, playwright, and critic John Igo stumbled upon a curious reference to a vanished local literary legend. A brilliant former student at a San Antonio community college, forgotten by none who met him, had gone on to the famed Black Mountain College in the 1930s, and achieved...
by Thomas Carlyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Biography of a little-known literary figure by a well-known one. According to Wikipedia: "John Sterling was a colleague and friend of Carlyle, but achieved far less success as a writer. They met when Carlyle was forty, and Sterling thirty. Their friendship, which lasted for the remaining years of Sterling's...
John Lothrop Motley
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Best known for his essays and poetry, physician and Harvard professor Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. delved into the domain of biography with his 1876 John Lothrop Motley: A Memoir. This work presents readers with an encyclopedic account of the life and accomplishments of the renowned American historian, novelist and diplomat.