Memoir & Biography

Typing: A Life in 26 Keys

Matt Cohen’s memoir, Typing, was written over a period of five months from his lung cancer diagnosis to just before his death, in December 1999, at age 58. Elegiac and cranky, Cohen settles scores, bestows ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The True Intrepid: Sir William Stephenson and the Unknown Agents

By Bill Macdonald

William Stephenson was one of Winnipeg’s most illustrious exports: knighted by the King, he became the first non-American to receive the presidential Medal of Merit and was later admitted to the Order of Canada. Fellow ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Life on the Line: One Woman’s Tale of Work, Sweat, and Survival

By Solange De Santis

Why would anyone give up a high-paying stimulating career in search of downward mobility? Solange De Santis, former writer for Reuters, Associated Press, and The Globe and Mail, did. In an unconventional career move, disenchanted ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Shadow Child: An Apprenticeship in Love and Loss

By Beth Powning

The shadow child in the title refers to the stillborn baby Powning delivered when she was in her mid-20s, after an otherwise healthy full-term pregnancy. Never given a chance to hold her first child or ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Somatic: The Life and Work of Egon Schiele

By Catherine Owen

Young Vancouver poet Catherine Owen has taken on a formidable task in choosing the work of artist Egon Schiele as the subject of her first major book. Holding up the mirror of poetry to a ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Lunch with

By Jan Wong

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars,” wrote Oscar Wilde. That’s a distinction Jan Wong seems to have difficulty making. Wong is the Globe and Mail writer ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Trudeau Albums

By Mordecai Richler

However earnest the essays in Trudeau Albums might be in their occasional criticism of the late Pierre Trudeau, nothing can shake the reverent, hagiographic tone of this boxed coffee-table accessory. Organized into six albums, each ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Crack in the Teacup: The Life of an Old Woman Steeped in Stories

By Joan Bodger

Joan Bodger, author of the popular How the Heather Looks and several children’s books, grew up absorbing stories – first the yarns of her Welsh-born mother, then the world’s collected legends and folk tales. Accordingly, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America

By Victoria Freeman

Toronto-based author Victoria Freeman used to be like many Canadians: disconnected from her own history, ignorant about the extent to which her family has contributed to the dispossession of aboriginal people, yet saddled with an ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Fire into Ice: Charles Fipke and the Great Diamond Hunt

By Vernon Frolick

Vernon Frolick, a criminal prosecutor in British Columbia, tackles the biography of Chuck Fipke, the man who proved that there were commercial diamonds in Canada.Fipke is a driven man. Working in unbelievably remote areas of ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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