Memoir & Biography

My Mother’s Daughter

Rona Maynard has deep roots in the worlds of art and storytelling. She was the editor of Chatelaine for 10 years. Before that, she worked at Maclean’s under Peter C. Newman. Her mother, Fredelle Maynard, ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling

By Bret Hart

In the end, it doesn’t really matter if pro wrestling is fake or not. Because, as is made clear from Bret “Hitman” Hart’s autobiography, the athleticism required to execute wrestling’s pre-scripted entertainment is real – ... Read More »

October 29, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Out of This World: The Natural History of Milton Acorn

By Chris Gudgeon

In the early 1970s, Milton Acorn was one of Canada’s most famous poets. An antagonistic, argumentative man, his highly acclaimed poems about love, nature, and social and political concerns won him the 1975 Governor General’s ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

By David Gilmour

Faced with a frustrated 16-year-old son having increasing problems at school, Governor General’s Award-winning novelist and broadcaster David Gilmour made a decision that no parenting manual is likely to recommend: he allowed his son, Jesse, ... Read More »

October 9, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power

By Ross King

In the latest edition of the Eminent Lives Series, Canadian-born Ross King, author of last year’s The Judgment of Paris, tells the life story of Renaissance political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli.King’s adherence to a linear timeline ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Where War Lives

By Paul Watson

Author and former Toronto Star photo journalist Paul Watson inadvertently caught the world’s attention in October 1993, with his infamous photograph of the corpse of an American helicopter crew member being dragged through a dusty ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost Family

By Leilah Nadir

The Orange Trees of Baghdad is a found memoir, a record of partial memories and secondhand observations of world events. In it, Canadian-Iraqi author and journalist Leilah Nadir strikes out to learn about the lives ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Promise of Hope: The Astonishing True Story of a Woman Afflicted with Bipolar Disorder and the Miraculous Treatment That Cured Her

By Autumn Stringam

In 1996, an unlikely pair from northern Alberta – Tony Stephan, an engineer with a bipolar wife and two severely bipolar children, and David Hardy, an animal feed salesman – took a nutritional supplement for ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Other Men’s Sons

By Michael Rowe

Careful study of the lives of others leads to a greater understanding of the self, a fact amply demonstrated by Other Men’s Sons, a collection of essays by Toronto-based author and editor Michael Rowe that ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Portrait in Light and Shadow: The Life of Yousuf Karsh

By Maria Tippett

When Maria Tippett, author of a GG-winning bio of Emily Carr, asked Yousuf Karsh for permission to write his biography, he graciously declined. It was only after Karsh’s death in 2002 that his estate decided ... Read More »

August 27, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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