Memoir & Biography

Pearls in Vinegar: The Pillow Book of Heather Mallick

Some journalists’ writing, charming in brevity, suffers when translated to a full-length book. So readers of Heather Mallick’s Globe and Mail columns may approach Pearls in Vinegar with some trepidation. Fortunately, Mallick has resisted the ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Red Diaper Baby: A Memoir

By James Laxer

This short memoir by York University political science professor and writer James Laxer is successful because it is about much more than a single life. Laxer grew up in Montreal, Ottawa, and finally Toronto, his ... Read More »

September 7, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey

By Robert Hunter

There’s something about Greenpeace that’s slightly reminiscent of an aging 1960s rock star. Sure, it may still go off on the occasional bender, but on the whole it’s a respectable member of mainstream society. One ... Read More »

August 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

My Turquoise Years: A Memoir

By M.A.C. Farrant

My Turquoise Years, the eighth book from Victoria writer M.A.C. Farrant, is a memoir of the summer of 1960, when the writer was 14 years old. After her first five years spent repeatedly travelling across ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Inside the Olympics: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Politics, the Scandals and the Glory of the Games

By Dick Pound

Readers looking for the definitive exposé of Olympic greed, avarice, and scandal will be disappointed by former Canadian Olympic bigwig Dick Pound’s book. Inside the Olympics is a starched memoir with only fleeting anecdotes that ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Tubman: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, Her Life in the United States and Canada (signature Series)

By Rosemary Sadlier

Information about her Canadian connections is the key contribution of this new book about Harriet Tubman. Researched and written by Rosemary Sadlier, president of the Ontario Black History Society and author of several books on ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius

By Peter Ostwald

Peter Ostwald, an American violinist and psychiatrist who died of cancer shortly after completing this book, had an off-again-on-again friendship with Glenn Gould that lasted a quarter of a century after the two met on-stage ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Marshall Mcluhan: Escape into Understanding

By W. Terrence Gordon

The approaching millennium will bring with it the 20th anniversary of the death of Marshall McLuhan, a prophet still widely misunderstood in his own country. Genius, seer, or fast-talking media huckster? The image of the ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Marie Dressler: The Unlikeliest Star

By Betty Lee

Marie Dressler is no longer a household name. But during the 1930s, in cinemas across North America, this undeniably plain woman, weighing more than 200 pounds and carrying 60-odd years, was a bigger box-office draw ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Sandra Post and Me: A Veteran Pro Takes a New Golfer from First Swing to Tournament

By Sandra Post & Loral Dean

Loral Dean disdained golf. She couldn’t understand the arcane jargon, let alone figure out why golfers became so obsessed with the game. And even though – or, perhaps, because – both her husband and ex-husband ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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