Memoir & Biography

You Can’t Say That in Canada: Canada’s Most Influential Columnist Reflects on Life, Politics, and the Pursuit of Happiness

“Lots of people tell me that they don’t always agree with what I write but like reading me anyway,” claims Margaret Wente in the introduction to her new book, which collects columns written for The ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

After the Falls

By Catherine Gildiner

After the Falls picks up where Catherine Gildiner’s best-selling 1999 memoir, Too Close to the Falls, leaves off, chronicling the author’s teens in suburban Buffalo, where her family moved in 1960 to start fresh after ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Searching for Justice

By Fred Kaufman

The recent high-profile criminal charges facing former Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant have a lot of Canadians thinking about the concept of justice – not just in terms of the letter of the law, but ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Burmese Lessons: A Love Story

By Karen Connelly

Karen Connelly was deemed something of a prodigy in 1993, when, at age 24, she won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal. Connelly has continued to astound, most notably ... Read More »

October 19, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son

By Ian Brown

They are father and son. They communicate in a private language composed entirely of clicking noises. The parent is veteran Globe and Mail feature writer Ian Brown; the child, his young boy Walker, whose abilities ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir

By Lorna Crozier

Lorna Crozier is a poet, anthologist, and creative writing teacher. But readers coming to her memoir seeking an account of the writing life will be disappointed. Rather, this is a book about her relationship with ... Read More »

October 15, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes

By Ehor Boyanowsky

At first glance, the author and subject of this unusual memoir seem an unlikely pair of friends. Boyanowsky is a Simon Fraser University psychology professor, while Ted Hughes (who died in 1998) was Britain’s poet ... Read More »

September 28, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Seven Ravens: Two Summers in a Life by the Sea

By Lesley Choyce

Lesley Choyce, the prolific Nova Scotia author and publisher of Pottersfield Press, offers a meditation on life that focuses on the natural landscape around his home – a meditation prompted by an unidentified personal crisis. ... Read More »

September 14, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying

By Wayson Choy

The new memoir by celebrated novelist Wayson Choy chronicles not one, but two near-death experiences. Employing a spare, restrained approach, Choy depicts a dramatic series of events through an unexpectedly tranquil filter, highlighting themes of ... Read More »

March 9, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

My Two Polish Grandfathers and Other Essays on the Imaginative Life

By Witold Rybczynski

In this lurid era, when the majority of memoirs seem to be written by tweakers, dopers, dipsomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, or nymphomaniacs, it is indeed a relief to encounter the reminiscences of a diligent and industrious man ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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You Can’t Say That in Canada: Canada’s Most Influential Columnist Reflects on Life, Politics, and the Pursuit of Happiness

After the Falls

★ Searching for Justice

Burmese Lessons: A Love Story

★ The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son

Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir

Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes

Seven Ravens: Two Summers in a Life by the Sea

Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying

My Two Polish Grandfathers and Other Essays on the Imaginative Life

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