Elusive Subject: A Biographer’s Life

Phyllis Grosskurth found her vocation as a biographer relatively late in life. After spending years as a wife (her first husband was a naval officer) and as a mother, she went to graduate school and ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phuc Story

By Denise Chong

It is one of the most recognizable and potent images of the 20th century: a naked girl runs screaming along a dirt road toward the camera, the sky behind her dark and burning with napalm. ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Getting Started: A Memoir of the 1950s

By William Weintraub

Like the least-known member of a string quartet, William Weintraub’s status as a writer seems destined to remain in the shadows cast by his three more famous friends of the 1950s, Mordecai Richler, Mavis Gallant, ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Door Is Open: Memoir of a Soup Kitchen Volunteer

By Bart Campbell

The facts of Canadian poverty make for a stunning array of annual academic reports, conferences, and statistics-based treatises, but few provide a face-to-face look at the lost generations who inhabit the skid rows of our ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Walter Gretzky: On Family, Hockey and Healing

By Walter Gretzky

Walter Gretzky is best known as Canada’s ultimate hockey dad, whose love of the sport and unremitting support have guided three of his children to varying degrees of success on the ice. But Gretzky has ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Last Guide: A Story of Fish and Love

By Ron Corbett

In The Last Guide, Ottawa Citizen columnist and feature writer Ron Corbett explores the life of Frank Kuiack, Algonquin Park’s last remaining fishing guide. The book alternates between a biography of Kuiack and an account ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Wrestling with Rhinos

By Dr. Jerry Haigh

Wrestling with Rhinos, a memoir from Saskatoon-based veterinary professor Dr. Jerry Haigh, follows Haigh’s exploits as a young veterinarian during the 10 years he spent in Kenya in the 1960s and 1970s. Less than a ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Lock Me up or Let Me Go: The Protests, Arrest and Trial of an Environmental Activist and Grandmother

By Betty Krawczyk

Lock Me Up or Let Me Go opens with “environmental activist and grandmother” Betty Krawczyk’s courtroom battle with Justice Parrett of the B.C. judicial system. Krawczyk’s initial arrest occurred at the Clayoquot Sound blockades in ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

How Linda Died

By Frank Davey

Linda Davey, a former ballet dancer, lawyer, literary agent, and editorial board member of Coach House Press, was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer in the spring of 1999 and died a year later. During his ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Snow Geese: A Story of Home

By William Fiennes

At the age of 26, following a long illness and bout of depression that cut short his postgraduate studies, English journalist William Fiennes thought that life had little left to offer him. Inspired to travel ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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