Memoir & Biography

The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis

Though “oblivion, and states approaching it” may, as Mike Barnes writes in the first of four lengthy essays that make up The Lily Pond, “slide away most determinedly from the very conscious act of writing,” ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

In the World But Not of It: One Family’s Militant Faith and the History of Fundamentalism in America

By Brett Grainger

The term “fundamentalist,” with its inevitable connotations of religious extremism and even terrorism, has become a veritable pejorative in the North American lexicon. With his first book, In the World But Not of It, former ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic

By Val Ross

Oral biographies are a comparatively recent genre. The first one I recall that reached an exalted level of excellence was Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein and George Plimpton. The first Canadian one to ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Nellie McClung

By Charlotte Gray

In the struggle to help Canadians learn more about their past, Penguin Canada has launched a series of mini-histories designed to reach out to the general reader. The Extraordinary Canadians series, edited by John Ralston ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Emily Carr

By Lewis DeSoto

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Lord Beaverbrook

By David Adams Richards

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Myself Through Others

By David Watmough

This memoir by David Watmough, the Vancouver writer best known for 10 novels featuring his fictional alter ego Davey Bryant, is a strange affair. It presents itself, with only intermittent success, as a series of ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself

By Russell Wangersky

“The fronts of houses lie,” Russell Wangersky writes in the first chapter of Burning Down the House, his memoir of volunteer firefighting in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, “they’re the faces you’re meant to see.” What ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Romance on Three Legs: The Story of Glenn Gould’s Piano

By Katie Hafner

People who passionately love Glenn Gould and/or the piano will be enchanted by A Romance on Three Legs. But those of us who merely admire the Canadian pianist and the beauties of keyboard music may ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Never Sang for Hitler: The Life and Times of Lotte Lehmann

By Michael H. Kater

In the aftermath of the Second World War, many Germans strove to dissasociate themselves from Hitler’s Third Reich. Opera diva Lotte Lehmann vigorously promoted the fact that she, for one, never performed for the Nazis. ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis

In the World But Not of It: One Family’s Militant Faith and the History of Fundamentalism in America

Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic

Nellie McClung

Emily Carr

Lord Beaverbrook

Myself Through Others

Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself

A Romance on Three Legs: The Story of Glenn Gould’s Piano

Never Sang for Hitler: The Life and Times of Lotte Lehmann

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