Edith Sitwell: Avant-Garde Poet, English Genius

It’s not uncommon for a literary biographer to follow his or her biography with an edition of the subject’s letters. Richard Greene of the University of Toronto has done the reverse. His Selected Letters of ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Tommy Douglas

By Vincent Lam

Ask any patriotic Canadian what this country’s greatness is based on, and you’re liable to receive two responses: hockey and health care. New instalments of Penguin Canada’s Extraordinary Canadians titles (which comprise two of the ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Maurice Richard

By Charles Foran

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune

By Roderick Stewart and Sharon Stewart

Norman Bethune was not an easy man to like. In this new biography by Roderick and Sharon Stewart, we learn that in addition to being brilliant, creative, and compassionate, Bethune was restless, iconoclastic, and sometimes ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter

By Carmen Aguirre

Carmen Aguirre was destined to become a revolutionary. Born a week after the death of Che Guevara, Aguirre grew up in a household obsessed with social upheaval: her mother and stepfather were part of the ... Read More »

May 13, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Long Trail: My Life in the West

By Ian Tyson

At the age of 77, legendary Canadian songwriter Ian Tyson has published a memoir focusing on his three main interests: horses, music, and women. Tyson wrote “Four Strong Winds,” one of country music’s all-time great ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Out of Grief, Singing

By Charlene Diehl

In 1995, Winnipeg native Charlene Diehl suffered a loss no mother should have to bear. Twenty-eight weeks into her pregnancy, she was diagnosed with severe pre-eclampsia and told that her daughter would have to be ... Read More »

January 10, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Mordecai: The Life & Times

By Charles Foran

Mordecai Richler was many things to many people: to devoted fans of his sprawling novels he was the larger than life St. Urbain Street scribe; to newspaper and magazine readers he was a scathing political ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Eastern Passage

By Farley Mowat

Farley Mowat has courted a great deal of controversy over the years. Famously depicted as a Pinocchio-nosed liar on a 1996 Saturday Night magazine cover, Mowat has never been able to shake the accusation that ... Read More »

November 15, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed

By Marina Nemat

In 2007’s Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat told the harrowing story of her youth. Arrested at age 16, she was held with other teenage girls in Iran’s infamous Evin prison for over two years. Her ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Edith Sitwell: Avant-Garde Poet, English Genius

Tommy Douglas

Maurice Richard

Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune

★ Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter

The Long Trail: My Life in the West

★ Out of Grief, Singing

Mordecai: The Life & Times

Eastern Passage

After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed

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