Memoir & Biography

Shoshanna’s Story

Elaine Kalman Naves brings a crisp, beguiling voice to her contemplation of her complicated childhood in Hungary, England, and Montreal. Born to Holocaust-survivors Shoshanna and Gusti, Ilushka (as she was then called) grows up against ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Looking for My Country: Finding Myself in America

By Robert MacNeil

This slim memoir focuses on the career of American newsman Robert MacNeil, most notably the former co-anchor of PBS’s MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Born on the east coast of Canada, MacNeil has spent much of his life ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Mr. & Mrs. Gg

By Frank Davey

Writer, poet, and professor Frank Davey puts Canada’s Governor General, Adrienne Clarkson, and her husband, novelist and philosopher John Ralston Saul, under the microscope in the economical, occasionally snippy, but smartly argued Mr. & Mrs. ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Afraid of the Day: A Daughter’s Journey

By Nancy Graham

Severe depression afflicts between five and 10% of the Canadian population at any given time, yet the illness largely remains a taboo subject, one that elicits far less sympathy and support than such maladies as ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister

By Maggie de Vries

Robert Pickton has been accused of crimes that, if he’s convicted, would make him the worst serial killer in Canadian history. But few Canadians could likely name even one of the women he is charged ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Tommy: The Life and Times of Tommy Douglas

By Walter Stewart

Tommy Douglas was the one-time leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) party – the precursor of today’s NDP. He has also had his fair share of coverage in the press and in a few ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safari

By Christopher Ondaatje

Ernest Hemingway made two game-hunting safaris in Africa, both through Kenya, Tanganyika (now Tanzania), and Uganda. The first was in 1933, the second 1953. For Hemingway in Africa, Christopher Ondaatje made a single photographic safari, ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Ancient Mariner: The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Walked to the Arctic Ocean

By Ken McGoogan

In his previous book, Fatal Passage, Ken McGoogan masterfully rescued John Rae, the underappreciated explorer, from obscurity. Because his subject was not well known, even amongst Arctic aficionados, McGoogan was able to create a non-academic ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

By Roméo Dallaire

Between April and August 1994, while the international community looked on, 800,000 people were systematically murdered in a small African country. In Shake Hands with the Devil, Canadian Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire, the former Force ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian

By Maria Tippett

So many catalogues and coffee table books have been published on the art of Bill Reid that it is hard to believe that this scholarly text by Maria Tippett is the first complete biography on ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Shoshanna’s Story

Looking for My Country: Finding Myself in America

Mr. & Mrs. Gg

Afraid of the Day: A Daughter’s Journey

Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister

Tommy: The Life and Times of Tommy Douglas

Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safari

Ancient Mariner: The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Walked to the Arctic Ocean

★ Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian

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