Memoir & Biography

The Surprise of My Life: An Autobiography

Portrait of a Marriage might be a more apt title for this book, as Claire Drainie Taylor devotes over two-thirds of The Surprise of My Life: An Autobiography to her life with the actor and ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Blue Trust: The Author, the Lawyer, His Wife, and Her Money

By Stevie Cameron

Stevie Cameron does here what she is known for: she delves. This time it’s into the lives of Montreal tax lawyer Bruce Verchere and his wife Lynne – and a myriad of other characters drawn, ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

If I Could Turn and Meet Myself: The Life of Alden Nowlan

By Patrick Toner

Though Maritime poet Alden Nowlan’s works are often praised for their simplicity, the man behind them was anything but simple. Born in poverty and raised in obscurity, Nowlan was so different from his small-town Nova ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Among the Lions: A Lamb in the Literary Jungle

By Harold Horwood

From its chuckle-inspiring title to its high-minded sermonizing on home-schooling and the value of literature, Among the Lions offers a glimpse into the harrumphing mind of one of Newfoundland’s most prolific writers.In this, his second ... Read More »

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

Typing: A Life in 26 Keys

By Matt Cohen

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

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