Tag Archives: Personal Memoirs
Wandering Through Life
by Donna LeonThe internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her eighties
Radical
by Xiaolu GuoFrom NBCC-winning author of Nine Continents Xiaolu Guo, Radical is a provocative memoir and an intercultural feminist lexicon of a sojourn in New York that upended her sense…
Chinese Prodigal
by David ShihFrom an exciting and sharp-voiced new observer of American culture, a forthright and probing debut exploring Asian American identity in a racially codified country
How to Think Like a Woman
by Regan PenalunaFrom a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential 17th and 18th century feminist philosophers Mary Wollstonecraft and…
Also a Poet
by Ada CalhounA staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet
Things I Have Withheld
by Kei MillerAcclaimed Forward Prize winner, novelist, and poet, Kei Miller’s linked collection of essays blends memoir and literary commentary to explore the silences that exist…
When the Stars Begin to Fall
by Theodore Roosevelt JohnsonA bold, thought-provoking pathway to the national solidarity that could, finally, address the ills of racism in America
Walking with Ghosts
by Gabriel ByrneA highly anticipated memoir by Gabriel Byrne, the award-winning star of over 80 films, Walking with Ghosts is an exquisite portrait of an Irish…
All the Young Men
by Ruth Coker BurksAll The Young Men, a gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth Coker Burks, a young single mother…
The Shapeless Unease
by Samantha HarveyA genre-defying debut memoir of insomnia by Betty Trask Prize-winner and one of our most singular stylists, Samantha Harvey
