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• Author(s): Carl Rollyson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Some critics rank biographers just above serial murderers. The author of this book, a self-described member of the Samue...

• Author(s): Tristine Rainer • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: GeneralIn Your Life As Story, autobiography expert Tristine Rainer explains how we can all find the important messages in ou...

• Author(s): Ron McFarland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The autobiography has not always been acknowledged as true literature. Since 1970, however, American memoirs have reveal...

• Author(s): Joyce Johnson • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary FiguresNamed one of the 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years by The New York Times Winner of the National Book Critic...

• Author(s): Beth Kephart • Publisher: Gotham Books • Publisher Imprint: Gotham Books • BISAC: Writing - GeneralIn the tradition of Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares inspiration and practical a...

• Author(s): Julie Andrews • Publisher: Hachette Books • Publisher Imprint: Hachette Books • BISAC: Memoirs"A frank, intriguing memoir." --People "Painfully shrewd, and written with real delicacy and pathos." --The New York Times Book Review "Hom...

• Author(s): Susan Fox Rogers • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MemoirsIn this memoir of the Hudson River and of her family, Susan Fox Rogers writes from a fresh perspective: the seat of ...

• Author(s): Meredith Norton • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: MemoirsBy the age of thirty -four, Meredith Norton had been a hymnal editor, art restorer, game-show producer, and a public school tea...

• Author(s): Kevin Killian • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: MemoirsA memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement.Fascination brings together an early ...

• Author(s): Dorothea Brande • Publisher: Tarcher • Publisher Imprint: Tarcher • BISAC: Publishers & Publishing IndustryA reissue of a classic work published in 1934 on writing and the creative process, Becoming a Writer recaptures the excite...

• Author(s): Becky Bradway • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MOThe 42 essays in this collection take their inspiration from t...

• Author(s): Jim Beaver • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Memoirs A remarkable memoir that shows the capacity of the human heart to heal after the challenge of having to say goodbye. Ev...

• Author(s): Jonathan Franklin • Publisher: Plume Books • Publisher Imprint: Plume Books • BISAC: GeneralThe new "nonfiction"--the adaptation of storytelling techniques to journalistic articles in the manner of Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, and John ...

• Author(s): Siegfried Sassoon • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: ClassicsThe second volume in Siegfried Sassoon's beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, with a new introduction by celebrated...

• Author(s): Wendy Burden • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Memoirs The great-great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt takes a look at the decline of her wealthy blue-blooded family ...

• Author(s): Dorothy Jane Mills • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports From 1949 until 1990, Dorothy Jane Mills quietly contributed her research and writing to the first baseball historie...

• Author(s): Ilan Stavans • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: MemoirsYiddish, Spanish, Hebrew, and English-at various points in Ilan Stavans's life, each of these has been his primary language. In th...

• Author(s): Sherry Ellis • Publisher: Tarcher • Publisher Imprint: Tarcher • BISAC: Writing - GeneralA collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today's best novelists, short story writers, and writing teachers, includ...

• Author(s): Stephen E. Atkins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military The author of this Vietnam War memoir was drafted in November 1966 just before completion of his Ph.D. work in Fren...

• Author(s): Jenny Lawson • Publisher: Berkley Books • Publisher Imprint: Berkley Books • BISAC: MemoirsThe #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. "Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inapprop...

• Author(s): Julia Cameron • Publisher: Tarcherperigee • Publisher Imprint: Tarcherperigee • BISAC: Writing - AuthorshipWhat if everything we have been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron's most revoluti...

• Author(s): Francois-Rene Chateaubriand • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: LiteraryThe only available edition in English of the greatest of all French autobiographies By the time he came to write his extraordi...

• Author(s): Richard D. Woods • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference This is the definitive bibliography of autobiographical writings on Mexico. The book incorporates works by Mexicans...

• Author(s): Amy Boesky • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: MemoirsAn inspiring true story of the women in one family and their fight against cancer that Patricia Wood, author of Lottery, c...

• Author(s): Susan S. Neville • Publisher: Quarry Books • Publisher Imprint: Quarry Books • BISAC: American - GeneralCalling on the image of the Midwest's vanished inland sea, Susan Neville has written a compelling collection of essays that ponde...

• Author(s): Nelson George • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Memoirs"City Kid is perhaps one of the seven greatest books ever written. It has the realness of The Autobiography of Malcolm ...

• Author(s): Chen Xuezhao • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralMemoirs of the Chinese author, Chen Xeuzhao, who was branded a "rightist" by the communist authorities. The book tells of her suffering during the Cul...

• Author(s): Claire Bidwell Smith • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: MemoirsA powerful and searingly honest memoir about a young woman who loses her family but finds herself in the process...

• Author(s): Lee Martin • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Memoirs"Count your blessings," his mother told him, "Think of everything good in your life."Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin ha...

• Author(s): Paul John Eakin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryA pervasive culture of confession, combined with the revolution in Internet-based communication, has c...

• Author(s): Francine Du Plessix Gray • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: MemoirsTatiana du Plessix, the wife of a French diplomat, was a beautiful, sophisticated "white Russian" who had be...

• Author(s): Sarah Emma Edmonds • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: WomenAmong the hundreds of women who, in disguise, enlisted to serve as men during the Civil War, onl...

• Author(s): Susan McCorkindale • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: MemoirsA laugh-out-loud memoir about a city slicker who discovers that Manolos and manure just don't mix. At her husband'...

• Author(s): Julie Andrews • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: MemoirsSince her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable roles that have en...

• Author(s): Jeannette Watson • Publisher: Turtle Point Press • Publisher Imprint: Turtle Point Press • BISAC: MemoirsBorn into a celebrity family (her father was Watson's son, who turned the company into the powerhouse it still is today, and her...