February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Lots of artists have the talent to become noted masters, but more than just creativeness is required to reach greatness. It takes an enormous ego, unfailing gumption, and blind determination. Many who inherit creativity but ... Read More »
Bob Hunter strikes again. The Greenpeace co-founder, newspaper columnist, television reporter, author, and self-appointed media guru has decided to share his experiences as a media consultant for aboriginal groups and as a general shit disturber ... Read More »
February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Ahtahkakoop is an ambitious book that presents, in minute detail, the life story of Cree chief Ahtahkakoop and, by extension, the culture and history of his people and their relocation to a reserve at Sandy ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
Keith Garebian’s background is rich with potential autobiographical material. Born to an Armenian father and a mother of mixed Indian and English ancestry, he spent his early years in the polyglot expatriate community in Bombay. ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
In the 1930s, Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote in her journal that her work would be forgotten in 60 years time. But the promise she extracted from her youngest son to never destroy her voluminous journals ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Like an extremely long letter from a dear old uncle, this Second World War memoir contains some genuinely interesting anecdotes, but readers have to slog through an overwhelming number of incidental and forgettable details to ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
At what point, if ever, do events recalled from memory become history? And how accurate is that history and whose story does it tell? Once that story is told, perhaps with artful intervention to improve ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
The biographies of any age, it has been said, have more in common with their biographers than with their subjects. Four recent literary biographies allow us to test this premise, for the authors have many ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
The biographies of any age, it has been said, have more in common with their biographers than with their subjects. Four recent literary biographies allow us to test this premise, for the authors have many ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
The biographies of any age, it has been said, have more in common with their biographers than with their subjects. Four recent literary biographies allow us to test this premise, for the authors have many ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography