Memoir & Biography

Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968–2000

John English was given a tremendous opportunity, but one that came loaded with risk, when he was invited by the executor and family of Pierre Elliott Trudeau to write the former prime minister’s biography, for ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Frank McKenna: Beyond Politics

By Harvey Sawler

A frequent criticism of political journalists is that they get too close to the people they are covering. On the other hand, biographers are sometimes seen by their subjects as having betrayed their trust (think ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

You Can’t Say That in Canada: Canada’s Most Influential Columnist Reflects on Life, Politics, and the Pursuit of Happiness

By Margaret Wente

“Lots of people tell me that they don’t always agree with what I write but like reading me anyway,” claims Margaret Wente in the introduction to her new book, which collects columns written for The ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

After the Falls

By Catherine Gildiner

After the Falls picks up where Catherine Gildiner’s best-selling 1999 memoir, Too Close to the Falls, leaves off, chronicling the author’s teens in suburban Buffalo, where her family moved in 1960 to start fresh after ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Searching for Justice

By Fred Kaufman

The recent high-profile criminal charges facing former Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant have a lot of Canadians thinking about the concept of justice – not just in terms of the letter of the law, but ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Burmese Lessons: A Love Story

By Karen Connelly

Karen Connelly was deemed something of a prodigy in 1993, when, at age 24, she won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal. Connelly has continued to astound, most notably ... Read More »

October 19, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son

By Ian Brown

They are father and son. They communicate in a private language composed entirely of clicking noises. The parent is veteran Globe and Mail feature writer Ian Brown; the child, his young boy Walker, whose abilities ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir

By Lorna Crozier

Lorna Crozier is a poet, anthologist, and creative writing teacher. But readers coming to her memoir seeking an account of the writing life will be disappointed. Rather, this is a book about her relationship with ... Read More »

October 15, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes

By Ehor Boyanowsky

At first glance, the author and subject of this unusual memoir seem an unlikely pair of friends. Boyanowsky is a Simon Fraser University psychology professor, while Ted Hughes (who died in 1998) was Britain’s poet ... Read More »

September 28, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Seven Ravens: Two Summers in a Life by the Sea

By Lesley Choyce

Lesley Choyce, the prolific Nova Scotia author and publisher of Pottersfield Press, offers a meditation on life that focuses on the natural landscape around his home – a meditation prompted by an unidentified personal crisis. ... Read More »

September 14, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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