Memoir & Biography

Eastern Passage

Farley Mowat has courted a great deal of controversy over the years. Famously depicted as a Pinocchio-nosed liar on a 1996 Saturday Night magazine cover, Mowat has never been able to shake the accusation that ... Read More »

November 15, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed

By Marina Nemat

In 2007’s Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat told the harrowing story of her youth. Arrested at age 16, she was held with other teenage girls in Iran’s infamous Evin prison for over two years. Her ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Peter Gzowski

By R.B. Fleming; R.B. Fleming

It’s unlikely anyone was clamouring for an exhaustive Peter Gzowski biography. In the 13 years since the CBC Radio mainstay stepped away from his most prominent perch as host of Morningside, and in the eight ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72

By Molly Peacock

This wonderful and markedly unusual work by Toronto poet Molly Peacock is both biography and memoir, but not the sort that switches back and forth between genres. The biographical element concerns Mary Granville Pendarves Delany ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Growing Up Jung: Coming of Age as the Son of Two Shrinks

By Micah Toub

Most men would not turn to their mothers for advice about erectile dysfunction, nor would they confront their aggressive impulses by shopping for jeans. But having been raised by two Jungian psychologists, Globe and Mail ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Superdad: A Memoir of Rebellion, Drugs and Fatherhood

By Christopher Shulgan

In his new memoir, Toronto’s Christopher Shulgan, a magazine writer whose first book, The Soviet Ambassador, was shortlisted for the B.C. National Book Award for Non-fiction, chronicles his descent into crack addiction (with a side ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Baking as Biography: A Life Story in Recipes

By Diane Tye

In Baking as Biography, Diane Tye goes through her mother’s recipe box as a means to better understand the older woman’s life, to examine mid-20th-century Maritime food and domestic culture, and to consider connections between ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Flight of the Patriot: Escape from Revolutionary Iran

By Yadi Sharifirad

When the Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, he promised freedom from the tyranny of the Shah of Iran. For many Iranians, such as Yadi Sharifirad, Khomeini merely replaced one gang of infamous torturers ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Cigar Box Banjo: Notes on Music and Life

By Paul Quarrington

Most of us, in the grip of a morbid mood, have imagined ourselves in the very predicament suffered by novelist, screenwriter, and musician Paul Quarrington. “What would I do if I was told that I ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Marshall McLuhan

By Douglas Coupland

Only Douglas Coupland could have written Marshall McLuhan. In his contribution to Penguin’s Extraordinary Canadians biography series, Coupland challenges the grandiose nationalistic poise of the series, and indeed the very nature of biography itself. Employing ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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