Memoir & Biography

We Who Can Fly: Poems, Essays, and Memories in Honour of Adele Wiseman

Since Adele Wiseman was Margaret Laurence’s close friend for many many years (remember Ella in The Diviners? “So you’re going to put me in a book!” wrote Wiseman to Laurence in 1972), the correspondence between ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

To Russia with Fries

By George Cohon with David Macfarlane

George Cohon, the president of McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada, is not a writer, and doesn’t pretend to be. The last chapter of To Russia With Fries, his memoir about his crusade to establish McDonald’s in ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune’s Writing and Art

By Larry Hannant ed.

With The Politics of Passion, Victoria author Larry Hannant offers us the collected writings of a Canadian who, in many ways, is better known outside of Canada than in his homeland.Dr. Norman Bethune, born in ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

No Holds Barred: My Life in Politics

By John C. Crosbie with Geoffrey Stevens

John Crosbie began his political life as a Liberal in the cabinet of Joey Smallwood, Newfoundland’s first post-Confederation premier. After his 1968 resignation in disgust at Smallwood’s corruption, he switched parties and in 1976 entered ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ 100 Cigarettes and a Bottle of Vodka

By Arthur Schaller

Arthur Schaller was only 11 years old when the German army swept through Poland in 1939. Along with his family and every other Jew in Warsaw, Schaller was herded into the ghetto where he learned ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Cowboy on the Steppes

By Song Nan Zhang

At the height of the Cultural Revolution in 1968, author-illustrator Song Nan Zhang’s brother Yi Nan was sent to the Mongolian border to live in a yurt with a nomadic family. Cowboy on the Steppes, ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Losing the Dead

By Lisa Appignanesi

There is an intensely immediate quality to Lisa Appignanesi’s family memoir Losing the Dead. The story is told in the present tense with constant temporal shifts that transport the reader from wartime Poland, to 1950s ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

★ Too Close to the Falls

By Catherine Gildiner

There is only one problem with Catherine Gildiner’s memoir Too Close to the Falls: it is far too short, even at 350 pages.When Gildiner, a Toronto psychologist and Chatelaine columnist, was four years old and ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Too Tough to Cry: A True Story of Crime and Redemption by the Man Who Inspired the Poem Footprints

By Paul Powers

Paul Powers has had the type of life of which television movies are made. Minutes after he watched his mother die, the seven-year-old was beaten by his alcoholic father for crying over her death. Shortly ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Bambi and Me

By Michel Tremblay

Playwright Michel Tremblay’s book offers a dozen pieces, ranging from a short sentimental statement (which gives the book its title) to anecdotal satiric narratives about his boyhood, and adolescent pleasures at the movies. He reminisces ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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