Pamela Wallin: A Memoir

Pamela Wallin has the storytelling component down pat: it's sheer David and Goliath. Wallin is a westerner bringing common sense to public discourse in the eastern centres of public discourse. She is a woman forging ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Power in the Blood: Land, Memory,and a Southern Family

By John Bentley Mays

John Bentley Mays was born into one of the American South’s oldest families – that is who he is. Since 1980, he has been The Globe and Mail’s art critic – that is what he ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Zero Tollerance

By Toller Cranston with Martha Lowder Kimball

Just as Wayne Gretzky and Tiger Woods are familiar names to even those who disdain hockey and golf, Toller Cranston became well-known among people who don’t know a Lutz from a Salchow. The six-time Canadian ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Life of Margaret Laurence

By James King

After years of what you might call biographical exile, James King has come home. It’s about time. That’s not meant to read like a pointedly parochial plaint; it’s not to suggest that some federal policing ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood

By Eileen Whitfield

Long before expatriate hosers Jim Carrey and William Shatner uttered their immortal lines, “Alrighty then,” and, “Beam me up, Scotty,” Toronto-born actress Mary Pickford started our national entertainment industry tradition of southward migration. Like dozens ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Spirit Wrestler

By Greg Nelson

Commissioned as a centenary celebration of a great Doukhobor event, Spirit Wrestler is the story of Nikolai Kalmakoff, who champions the Doukhobor cause. It begins in Russia around 1895 when he is 14 years-old and ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Two Solicitudes

By Margaret Atwood and Victor-Lévy Beaulieu

Solicitude: the state of being solicitous. That is what Margaret Atwood and Victor-Lévy Beaulieu are in this riveting collection of conversations. They solicit one another’s points of view, they interrogate one another – but most ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

By John Lennox and Ruth Panofsky, eds.

Since Adele Wiseman was Margaret Laurence’s close friend for many many years (remember Ella in The Diviners? “So you’re going to put me in a book!” wrote Wiseman to Laurence in 1972), the correspondence between ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

We Who Can Fly: Poems, Essays, and Memories in Honour of Adele Wiseman

By Elizabeth Greene, ed.

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

To Russia with Fries

By George Cohon with David Macfarlane

George Cohon, the president of McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada, is not a writer, and doesn’t pretend to be. The last chapter of To Russia With Fries, his memoir about his crusade to establish McDonald’s in ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Pamela Wallin: A Memoir

Power in the Blood: Land, Memory,and a Southern Family

Zero Tollerance

The Life of Margaret Laurence

Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood

Spirit Wrestler

Two Solicitudes

Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

We Who Can Fly: Poems, Essays, and Memories in Honour of Adele Wiseman

To Russia with Fries

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