The Memoir Lover’s Bookshelf: Travelers
Sometimes the most satisfying journeys are vicarious, and the best way to travel is often by way of a great writer....
Audio Excerpt: Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
Click here to listen to this audio excerpt of Anna Quindlen reading from her intimate and hilarious new memoir “Lots...
Amy Sohn, New York Times bestselling author of "Prospect Park West" and the upcoming "Motherland," took on an unfamiliar assignment between novels -- co-writing the memoir of the NFL's oldest cheerleader, Laura Vikmanis.
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Graphic novelists like Alison Bechdel, Art Spiegelman and Marjane Satrapi push the limits of the form with illustrated memoir.
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A roundup of June's most anticipated biographies and memoirs, including "The Cost of Hope: A Memoir" by Wall Street Journal and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amanda Bennett, "James Joyce: A New Biography" by Gordon Bowker, "Amy, My Daughter" by Mitch Winehouse, "A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father,...
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Books covered in this week's review roundup: "Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee," by Jeff Himmelman, and "Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948," by Madeleine Albright
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The Gold Rush was a mass, almost flash migration (1848-1855) that changed American history. By the 1860s, railroads had replaced covered wagons, Indians had lost their last sovereign native lands; anti-slavery unionists were benefiting from the staggering resources of the new, "free" state of California,...
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