Memoir & Biography

At Twilight in the Country: Memoirs of a Canadian Nationalist

Is it all right to say that Mel Hurtig – bookseller, publisher, author, public speaker, and (in the best sense) patriot – has been one of my minor heroes? As Canada’s first real regionally based ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Laughing on the Outside: The Life of John Candy

By Martin Knelman

In his biography Laughing on the Outside: The Life of John Candy, Martin Knelman, an award-winning Canadian magazine journalist, has the unenviable task of bringing down to Earth the memory of John Candy, a comedian ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Journey to Vaja: Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family

By Elaine Kalman Naves

Anyone who has listened to a parent spin family yarns knows that such stories are concoctions of myth and fact. But the books that emerge from these tales – Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family, ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Barbara Frum: A Daughter’s Memoir

By Linda Frum

When Barbara Frum died at age 54 on March 26, 1992, media outlets across Canada noted her passing with an outpouring of grief and praise.As an interviewer for CBC Radio’s “As It Happens” and subsequently ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Making of a Jew

By Edgar M. Bronfman

Edgar Bronfman and Manny Drukier were both born into Jewish families, within a year of each other. Bronfman was born in Montreal in 1929; Drukier, in Lvov, Poland, 1928. Bronfman was bar mitzvahed in 1942, ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Carved in Stone: Holocaust Years – a Boy’s Tale

By Manny Drukier

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ From Protest to Power: Personal Reflections on a Life in Politics

By Bob Rae

This is without question one of the best memoirs by a Canadian politician. It is splendidly written, moving, funny, personal, and eloquent. At times, Bob Rae’s prose can make you laugh out loud or weep. ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

★ The Reichmanns: Family, Faith, Fortune, and the Empire of Olympia & York

By Anthony Bianco

Business Week senior writer Anthony Bianco assumed a mammoth task in deciding to write a biography of the Reichmanns, once one of the world’s most powerful and secretive families. His subjects, the force behind Olympia ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

As for Me and My Body: A Memoir of Sinclair Ross

By Keath Fraser

Early in this memoir, Keath Fraser writes of his subject, “He resisted summary. He took his own measure from a world often foreign to his, the straight world or else another country’s culture, and seldom ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Hard Core Roadshow

By Noel S. Baker

When Toronto screenwriter Noel Baker first began work for director Bruce McDonald on his film adaptation of the Michael Turner novel Hard Core Logo, he anticipated his diary might someday make a fine book. Knowing ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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At Twilight in the Country: Memoirs of a Canadian Nationalist

Laughing on the Outside: The Life of John Candy

Journey to Vaja: Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family

Barbara Frum: A Daughter’s Memoir

The Making of a Jew

★ Carved in Stone: Holocaust Years – a Boy’s Tale

★ From Protest to Power: Personal Reflections on a Life in Politics

★ The Reichmanns: Family, Faith, Fortune, and the Empire of Olympia & York

As for Me and My Body: A Memoir of Sinclair Ross

Hard Core Roadshow

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