Memoir & Biography

★ Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren’t Told

By Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, eds.

The first Dropped Threads anthology, the brainchild of Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, was a Canadian publishing phenomenon. Book clubs across the country seized on the collection of true stories about what women aren’t told ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Crete on the Half-shell

By Byron Ayanoglu

Stage Irishmen – that’s what they’re called – those ones you see in theatre and on screen. They lard their lilting speeches with begoshes and begorras and cross themselves while traversing the peat bog because ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Crooked Smile: One Family’s Journey Toward Healing

By Lainie Cohen

In Crooked Smile, the lives of an upper-middle class Toronto family are shattered when the middle of three children is in a car accident while driving home from the cottage with a teen buddy in ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

From the Far Side of the River: Chest-deep in Little Fish and Big Ideas

By Paul Quarrington

Paul Quarrington is at it again with the fish. From the author of Whale Music and Fishing with My Old Guy comes From the Far Side of the River, a collection of essays, reflections, and ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

An Aesthetic Underground: A Literary Memoir

By John Metcalf

That John Metcalf has contributed to the development and publishing of Canadian literature is by now a matter of historical record. As an editor, teacher, author, critic, and pioneering anthologist of Canadian fiction, Metcalf was ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Diamond: A Memoir of 100 Days

By Dawn Rae Downton

In her second book, Diamond, Nova Scotia writer Dawn Rae Downton has paired two themes that are popular with memoirists: homecoming and bereavement. It is to her credit that much of this narrative feels fresh ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

From Someplace Else

By Ralph Osborne

Though ostensibly a memoir of the years he lived and worked at Rochdale College, the now legendary student residence and “free university” that was loosely affiliated with the University of Toronto, Ralph Osborne’s From Someplace ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Aids Activist: Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community

By Ann Silversides

At a time when one of the largest annual gatherings in Toronto is the Gay Pride parade, it’s significant to recall that such an outpouring of support for the lesbian and gay community would not ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin’s Lieutenant

By Peter Steele

Whitehorse author Peter Steele is a biographer who has done his share of northern travelling. In The Man Who Mapped the Arctic, Steele turns his attention to one of the hardiest 19th-century Arctic explorers, George ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Shoshanna’s Story

By Elaine Kalman Naves

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

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★ Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren’t Told

Crete on the Half-shell

Crooked Smile: One Family’s Journey Toward Healing

From the Far Side of the River: Chest-deep in Little Fish and Big Ideas

An Aesthetic Underground: A Literary Memoir

Diamond: A Memoir of 100 Days

From Someplace Else

Aids Activist: Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community

The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin’s Lieutenant

Shoshanna’s Story

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