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Book Review: Louise Pound: The Victorian Age Iconoclast and Advocate for Women's Rights

In: Activist Biographies

By: Gary W Toyn

My Life by Fidel Castro: A Review of the New Spoken Autobiography of the Cuban Leader

In: Political Biographies

By: Erin Britton

Book Review: Welcome to Shirley: Kelly McMasters' Memoir About an Atomic Town

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Lisa Rufle

Memoirs Booming in Book Industry: True Life Stories Are Selling Big Among General Readers

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Laura Smith

Indigenous: Growing Up Californian: Cris Mazza's Memoir About Her 1960s Childhood

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Lindsey Michelle

Education: No Child Left Behind? Book Review of Elizabeth Blake's True Story of a Teacher's Quest

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Joan Prefontaine

The Life of Bette Davis: In Dark Victory, Critic Ed Sikov Examines Davis through her Films

In: Actor Biographies

By: Joan Prefontaine

My Camino by Sue Kenney: Book Review on Walking the Camino de Santiago, Spain

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Feature Writer Rachel L. Webb

Byron: Life and Legend: A Review: Fiona McCarthy's biography of Lord Byron

In: Artist Biographies

By: Martyn Conterio

Julie Andrews's Memoir Published: Film and TV Star Writes Home: A Memoir of My Early Years

In: Actor Biographies

By: Lindsey Michelle

Born Standing Up: Steve Martin's Memoir of His Stand-Up Comedy Days

In: Actor Biographies

By: Joan Prefontaine

Here If You Need Me: A Maine Chaplain's Search-and-Rescue Work

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Joan Prefontaine

Schulz and Peanuts: The Biography of a Complex and Innovative Cartoonist

In: Artist Biographies

By: Joan Prefontaine

Shelley: The Pursuit: A Review of Richard Holmes' Award-winning Biography of Percy Shelley

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Martyn Conterio

Review: My Own Two Feet: Beverly Cleary's Account of Life During the 1930s and 1940s.

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Lindsey Michelle

Joan Anderson's Walk on the Beach: The True Story of a Friendship Based on the Aging Process

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Laurie Hodges Humble

Hollywood Memoirs Not to Miss: These Four Memoirs Take Readers Back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

In: Actor Biographies

By: Lindsey Michelle

The Young Winston Churchill: From Boyhood to Parliament

In: Political Biographies

By: Karen Reams

Celebrity Detox: Rosie O'Donnell Examines the Fame Game

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Joan Prefontaine

Come Back: Mother Daughter Memoir: A Teen’s Descent into Hell, Drug Addiction and Back

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Teresa Shaw

I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Joan Prefontaine

The Dog Says How by Kevin Kling: A Master Storyteller Uses Humor as a Survival Technique

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Joan Prefontaine

Clapton: A Musician's Quest for Healing and Happiness

In: Musician Biographies

By: Joan Prefontaine

The Autobiography of Li Cunxin: Book Review of Mao’s Last Dancer and The Peasant Prince

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

A Memoir of Lies: Love and Consequences: Latest "Memoir" to be Fabricated

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Lisa Rufle

Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Amahl Majack

Thunderbolt Kid: a Fifties Memoir: Humorist Bill Bryson Recalls his Childhood in Des Moines, Iowa

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Joan Prefontaine

Redeemed by Heather King: One Woman's Spiritual Awakening After a Lifetime of Self-Destruction

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Lisa Rufle

First Native American Writer: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft: The Song of Hiawatha

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Christine Musser

Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil in Afghanistan

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Teresa Shaw

Mahatma Gandhi's Autobiography: In Gandhi's Words - His Early Years and Experiments with Truth

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Elaine Walker

In an Instant: A Family's Journey: ABC's Bob Woodruff's Story of Traumatic Brain Injury and Healing

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: J.A. Huber

I Wear the Maternity Pants..Family: Susan Konig's Hilarious Take on Motherhood

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Teresa Shaw

Book Review: Sixty-Five Roses: A Sister's Memoirs of a Family's Struggle With Cystic Fibrosis

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Sandra Williams

Burroughs' Dreams Build on Past: My Education Portrays Vivid Landscape of William Burroughs' Past

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: George Conrad Gould

Judith Jones' Life in Food: Culinary Adventures with James Beard, Julia Child, and Others

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Feature Writer Sharon Hunt

Review: Bit of a Blur - Alex James: The story of British Band Blur in the Eyes of the Bass Player

In: Musician Biographies

By: Feature Writer Jodie Martin

A Personal History of Awe: Scott Russell Sanders: Filling the Gaps with Wonder

In: Biographies/Memoirs

By: Mark H. Leichliter

Home Ground by Barry Lopez (ed.): 45 American Authors Define Language for an American Landscape

In: Biographies/Memoirs

By: Katrien Vander Straeten

Arthur Conan Doyle Life in Letters: Review of a New Book Giving an Insight into the Author´s Life.

In: Biographies/Memoirs

By: Feature Writer Kate Pullen

Styron's Journey into the Mind: Bestsellling Author Explores the Inner Reaches of Depression

In: Biographies/Memoirs

By: Mona Lisa Safai

Teddy Atlas Autobiography/Book: From the Streets to the Ring Reveals Much About Boxing Legend

In: Biographies/Memoirs

By: Feature Writer Bill Scherer

David Gemmell - A Brief Biography: Honouring the Life and Works of One of Fantasy's Great Authors

In: Biographies/Memoirs

By: Tyler Feltmate

Joyce Johnson's Minor Characters: The Other Side of The Beat Generation

In: Biographies/Memoirs

By: Meg Nola

Book Review: Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know About Writing

In: Biographies/Memoirs

By: Nadine Bonner

The Devil Kissed Her: The Story of Mary Lamb co-author of Tales from Shakespeare

In: Biographies/Memoirs

By: Feature Writer Melissa Howard

Summer at Tiffany: A Memoir: Marjorie Hart Recalls 1940s New York Glamour

In: Biographies/Memoirs

By: Lindsey Michelle

Into the Wild: Chris McCandless Met Death in Alaskan Wilderness

In: Biographies/Memoirs (general)

By: Scott Hayden

Best New Memoir: Mothering Mother by Carol O’Dell

In: Biographies/Memoirs

By: TK Kenyon

Memoir: Still Life With Chickens: Catherine Goldhammer Rebounds from Divorce by Relocating

In: Biographies/Memoirs

By: Colleen Preston

Joan Didion: Further Reading

In: Biographies/Memoirs

By: Colleen Preston

Year of Magical Thinking

In: Biographies/Memoirs

By: Colleen Preston

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