Memoir & Biography

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

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

Wondrous Strange: Glenn Gould, a Biography

By Kevin Bazzana

There are a number of enormous risks inherent in assessing the life of Glenn Gould. The heavy layers of hype and half-truth began to cover Gould around the time of his first public appearances as ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Mordecai & Me: An Appreciation of a Kind

By Joel Yanofsky

Sure, most men lead lives of quiet desperation, but fans of serious literature have honed quiet and desperate into a science. There’s no better reminder of this than the literary-stalker bio, that slightly creepy sub-genre ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Paul Martin: The Power of Ambition

By John Gray

The first thing that strikes you about John Gray’s biography of Paul Martin is just how well written it is. Open the book at random, read any paragraph, and be prepared to be amazed. For ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Breakfast with the Devil

By L. Wayne Carlson

Breakfast with the Devil is a ballad of conundrums. On one level it’s an unsentimental account of the career of the most-escaped prisoner in modern North American history, the story of a hardscrabble Canadian farm ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Waltzing the Tango: Confessions of an Out-of-step Boomer

By Gabrielle Bauer

One effect of the success of the Bridget Jones books, besides too many copy-cat efforts, is that author Helen Fielding raised the bar for portrayals of baffled, self-absorbed, youngish women. Bridget, lucky for her, had ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Grounded in Eire: The Amazing Story of Two Pows in Ireland During World War Ii

By Ralph Keefer

Judging from what I saw in a recent visit, the Irish seem to have erased their country’s neutral stance in the Second World War from their memories. Everyone from President de Valera down to the ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Frank: The Life and Politics of Frank Mckenna

By Philip Lee

Frank McKenna’s political importance cannot be denied. His first mandate as premier of New Brunswick was unanimous – his Liberals utterly defeated Richard Hatfield’s Tories in 1987 and sat unopposed in the legislature. While in ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

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