Memoir & Biography

Gabrielle Roy: A Life

By Francois Ricard, Patricia Claxton, trans.

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

Arctic Crossing: A Journey Through the Northwest Passage and Inuit Culture

By Jonathan Waterman

Jonathan Waterman is an adventurer and author of In the Shadow of Denali and Kayaking the Vermilion Sea. In Arctic Crossing he chronicles his three-year attempt to kayak, ski, and dogsled the 2,200 miles of ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Biographical Dictionary of the World’s Assassins

By George Fetherling

It was just over 20 years ago that John Lennon was killed, one in a long line of assassinations that shaped both the 20th century and the contemporary psyche (while the old maxim of remembering ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr

By Susan Crean

Emily Carr is a Canadian icon, and like many another icon, her exact meaning is constantly being re-evaluated. Carr has enjoyed several incarnations: tortured artist, pioneering modernist, mystical nationalist, feminist trailblazer, dotty recluse, best-selling author, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Time Lord: The Remarkable Canadian Who Missed His Train and Changed the World

By Clark Blaise

In Time Lord, Clark Blaise pays homage to the creation and evolution of a modern and postmodern consciousness of time through the biography of Sir Sandford Fleming, the inventor of standard time. It is more ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Inside Out

By Evelyn Lau

Vancouver writer Evelyn Lau has never been reticent when it comes to self-revelation. Inside Out, her second volume of memoirs (the first, the best-selling Runaway, was published when Lau was just 18) continues to document ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmstead and America in the Nineteenth Century

By Witold Rybczynski

Frederick Law Olmstead is a fascinating character and an inspiration to all those who take a long time to find their direction in life. After a somewhat haphazard education, he travelled widely and made forays ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Nurse’s Story: Life, Death, and In-Between in an Intensive Care Unit

By Tilda Shalof

The key error that potential readers of A Nurse’s Story could make is to assume that the book is chiefly a worthy, public-interest kind of volume; the kind that a good citizen really ought to ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Ross Macdonald: The Life of a Mystery Writer

By Tom Nolan

Although crime novelist Ross Macdonald was born in Northern California in 1915, he was heavily influenced by the time he spent north of the 49th. Macdonald (real name: Kenneth Millar) spent his childhood in Vancouver, ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Nervous System: Or Losing My Mind in Literature

By Jan Lars Jensen

Selling a first novel to a major publisher inevitably brings a writer much anxiety as well as joy. Few authors end up going crazy because of it. But that’s exactly what happened to British Columbia’s ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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