MEMOIR, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sy Montgomery (see
also Children’s Books and memoir) is a naturalist,
award-winning author, documentary scriptwriter, and
radio commentator who writes for children as well as
adults. Sy lives with her husband, author Howard
Mansfield, in New Hampshire.
Souls of the Air: Invoking the Essence of Birds (Simon & Schuster--The Free Press, 2009)
The Good Good Pig: My Life with Christopher Hogwood
(Ballantine
/Random House 2006) is the story of an extraordinary pig
andthe profound effect he had on one women’s life as
well as on a small
Jarvis Masters
Seeking Freedom: Writing from Death Row (Padma Books 1997, One Spirit 2000) is a deeply moving, life-affirming memoir written from the netherworld of San Quentin’s Death Row. Roshi Bernie Glassman calls the work “an inspiring, exhilarating teaching on the life of a peacemaker in the midst of rage and despair … Masters is an extraordinary man.”
That Bird Has My Wings with introduction by Pema Chodron. (Harper Collins, 2010)
Carlos Bentos is a writer, singer, translator, restauranteur, and big-game angler of historic, Hemingwayesque proportions.
A Crew of One: True Stories of a Solitary Deep-Sea Angler (Tarcher
2002) is part memoir, part instructional manual, and part adventure tale,
but, above all, it is a compelling narrative that offers a new way of looking
at fishing, the ocean, and being alone.
Stephanie
Elizondo Griest
graduated phi
beta kappa in 1997 from the
Around the
Bloc: My Life in
House 2004) “…Opening Around the Bloc is rather like popping the cork
off a champagne bottle…[it] is clearly just the beginning for this gifted
youngwriter,” Jon Lee Anderson, author of The Lion’s Grave.
Mexican Enough: My Life Along the Border LinesAtria/Simon & Schuster 2008.
*Work in Progress: On
Silence
Carol O’Biso
First Light(Paragon 1989) chronicles an American woman’s experiences
among the
Maori elders of
Enid Abrhami lived two years in a small, remote village in Senegal, and she bears witness to her experiences in this breathtakingly beautiful memoir.
*Work in Progress: Rain Washed Over Me Under the Moon
Katherine Ketcham has been writing non-fiction books for 23 years. She has been the co-author, with different experts, of twelve books. Amongst them:
The Spirituality of Imperfection (Bantam)
The Five elements of Self-Healing (Harmony)
Under the Influence: A guide to the Myths and Realities of Alcoholism (Bantam).
Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemptionby William
Moyerswith Katherine Ketcham . (Viking 2006).
Agate Nesaule
A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile(Soho Press
1996/Penguin 1997) received the following review from Patricia Hampfl
in The New York Times Book Review: “Like all the best modern memoirs
[this one] belongs to the quest of literature of our times. It is a story both
heroic and chillingly humble.”
Rena Kornreich Gelissen with Heather Dune Macadam
Rena’s
Promise: The Story of Two Sisters in
1995). An unforgettable memoir of a young woman’s survival of
breathtakingly heroic testimonial to the human spirit.
Laurie Lisle
Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O’Keefe (Harper & Row
1987) is considered by many the definitive biography of this American
master. A classic.
Jesse Ventura was elected Governor of Minnesota on the Reform Party ticket in 1998. Before that, he was a navy SEAL, professional wrestler (using the name Jesse "The Body" Ventura), and an occasional movie actor and radio personality.
In Don't Start the Revolution Without Me, working with award-winning author Dick Russell, Ventura reveals for the first time why he left politics, and discusses the disastrous war in Iraq ... why he sees our two-party system as corrupt ... and what Fidel Castro told him about who was really behind the assassination of President Kennedy.
