Memoir & Biography

Sailing Home: A Journey Through Time, Place and Memory

Sailing Home is British Columbia poet Gary Geddes’s voyage into the past, his “male menopause” (as his daughter calls it), and his exploration of history both personal and far-reaching. Accompanied by the ghosts of Charles ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Details from a Larger Canvas

By Helen McLean

American art historian Linda Nochlin’s seminal essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” argued that women were excluded from achieving greatness in art by social norms and biological imperatives. The division of labour ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Run Over: A Boy, His Mother and an Accident

By Douglas Bell

Douglas Bell’s Run Over is the latest addition to the growing library of trauma memoirs – stories of life-changing encounters with illness, freak storms, rogue animals, or murderous vehicles. Such memoirs, by positing trauma as ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Cannibal’s Wife

By Yvonne Maes with Bonita Slunder

As a Catholic missionary in Lesotho, Sister Yvonne Maes found herself with the nickname Madiepetsan after the mythical wife of a cannibal chief, who was constantly escaping her husband’s cooking pot by using simple tricks. ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Olga Romanov: Russia’s Last Grand Duchess

By Patricia Phenix

Olga Romanov’s life was largely unremarkable with one exception: her older brother was Nicholas, the last Tsar of Russia. The youngest child of a loving father and a distant mother, she was raised in incomparable ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Robertson Davies: For Your Eye Alone: Letters 1976-1995

By Judith Skelton Grant, ed.

Robertson Davies was a marvellous letter writer, one of a breed headed for extinction in the e-mail generation. This volume covers Davies’ late career, from age 63 to his death at age 83 in 1995, ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Dionnes

By Ellie Tesher

The story of the Dionne quintuplets is an oft-told tale. Pierre Berton’s book on their miraculous birth during the Depression appeared in 1977. The surviving sisters’ battle for financial justice was headline news in 1998. ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood

By Wayson Choy

Wayson Choy avoids potential second-novel pitfalls by turning from fiction to non-fiction, following the spectacular success of The Jade Peony with a memoir. The relationship between the two books is so intricate and reflexive that ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

That’s What I Am

By Al Waxman

In our celebrity-devouring culture, it is a rite of passage for the famous, the would-be famous and the infamous to cash in on their Warhol-allotted 15 minutes by penning a memoir. And thus we are ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Rebel Life: The Life and Times of Robert Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, Labour Spy

By Mark Leier

The common complaint that Canadian history is boring is understandable considering the endless supply of books that recount the exploits of a small group of elite politicians, businessmen, and military leaders.Fortunately, a growing number of ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Sailing Home: A Journey Through Time, Place and Memory

Details from a Larger Canvas

Run Over: A Boy, His Mother and an Accident

The Cannibal’s Wife

Olga Romanov: Russia’s Last Grand Duchess

Robertson Davies: For Your Eye Alone: Letters 1976-1995

The Dionnes

Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood

That’s What I Am

Rebel Life: The Life and Times of Robert Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, Labour Spy

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