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Memoir, Biography & Autobiography
Sy Montgomery 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.
Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosuar (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 and the profound effect he had on one women’s life as well as on a small New Hampshire town. A heartwarming tale about redefining family, creating community, and the nature of love. Sy Montgomery is the author of eleven previous award-winning books.
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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: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row with introduction by Pema Chodron.
(Harper Collins, 2010).
*A PEN USA Literary Award finalist in Creative Nonfiction.
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Carlos Bentos is a writer, singer, translator, restauranteur, and big-game angler of historic, Hemingway-esque 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.
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Stephanie Elizondo Griest graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1997 from the university of Texas at Austin in journalism and post-Soviet studies. she served as a Henry Luce scholar in Beijing and as a Scotty Reston fellow at The New York Times. Griest’s wanderlust has taken her to 21 countries in 4 years.
Around the Bloc: My Life inMoscow, Beijing, and Havana (Random 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 young writer,” Jon Lee Anderson, author of The Lion’s Grave.
Mexican Enough: My Life Along the Border Lines (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2008).
*Work in Progress: On Silence
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Carol O’Biso
First Light (Paragon, 1989) chronicles an American woman’s experiences among the Maori elders of New Zealand. A classic.
*Work in Progress: A Well-Seasoned Life: A Daughter’s Tales of Her Father’s Kitchen
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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
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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 Redemption by William Moyers with Katherine Ketcham (Viking, 2006).
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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.”
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Rena Kornreich Gelissen with Heather Dune Macadam
Rena’s Promise: The Story of Two Sisters in Auschwitz (Beacon Press, 1995). An unforgettable memoir of a young woman’s survival of Auschwitz, Birkenau, Stagebaude, and the infamous death march. A breathtakingly heroic testimonial to the human spirit.
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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.
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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.
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Dina Cheney
*Work in Progress: The Wakame Chronicles: A Journey from the White Foods to the Right Foods
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Beth Terry, author of Fake Plastic Fish (fakeplasticfish.com), the world’s best-known blog on how to have less plastic in your life.
*Work in Progress: Plastic Free: How one blogger kicked the habit and you can, too (Skyhorse, 2012)
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Teresa Rhyne
*Work in Progress: The Dog Lived (and So Will I)
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Matthew Gilbert is film and popular culture columnist and writer for the Boston Globe.
*Work in Progress: Off the Leash
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