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Alcoholic Authors: James Whitcomb Riley: Depression and Drinking after the Death of his Soul Mate

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By: Martha R. Gore

Alcoholic Authors: Truman Capote: An American Author Destroyed by Drinking

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By: Martha R. Gore

Alcoholic Authors: William Faulkner: Infamous for His Alcoholism and Famous for His Writing.

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By: Martha R. Gore

An Insight into Aphra Behn's Plays: The English Restoration Gave Rise to This Prolific Female Writer

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By: Aimi Persand

I, Lisa Marie Presley: Book Review: The Daughter of the King of Rock 'n Roll, Elvis Presley

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By: Jeannie Delahunt

An Introduction To Aphra Behn: A Look at the Biography of this Seventeenth Century Female Writer

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By: Aimi Persand

A Torero of Spain and the Corrida: In and out of the Bullring: a Spanish Bullfighter and his World

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By: Michael Carroll

A Million Little Pieces Book Review: Memoir provides insight into the neurotic life of drug addicts

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By: Christina Martinez

Return to the Middle Kingdom: One Family's Role in the Birth of Modern China

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By: James A Woods

Alcoholic Authors: Dorothy Parker: A Life of Writing, Drinking, Debauchery and Suicidal Tendencies

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By: Martha R. Gore

Errant in Iberia by Ben Curtis - Review: A New Life Adventure in Spain Book

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By: Feature Writer Rachel L. Webb

Polk by Walter R. Borneman: Review of the Biography of the Eleventh President of the U.S.

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By: William L. Wunder

The Message of the Diary: The Writing and Rewriting of Anne Frank's Diary

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By: Sarah F. Sorensen

Alcoholic Authors: Edgar Allan Poe: Drinking His Way to an Early Death

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By: Martha R. Gore

Review: Wings Around the World, by Polly Vacher: Book Review of an Epic Flight from the North Pole to Antarctica.

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By: Feature Writer Helen Krasner

Tom Cruise An Unauthorized Biography: By Andrew Morton Author of Diana

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By: Georgia Fowler

Book Review: Lover of Unreason: The Doomed Affair of Assia Wevill and Ted Hughes

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By: Emily Carney

Book Review: Her Story by Charlotte S. Waisman: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

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By: Martha R. Gore

More Ketchup than Salsa by Joe Cowley: Book Review - Tenerife New Life Story

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By: Feature Writer Rachel L. Webb

Book Review: Adventurous Women: Eight True Stories about Women Who Made a Difference

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By: Martha R. Gore

Book Review: Common Ground: A True Story of Gardening and Friendship

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By: Vivienne May Ball

Audition By Barbara Walters Book Review: Walters Notes Her Extraordinary Life, Personally And Professionally

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By: Sabrina Barekzai

Body Politics In Bordo's, Unbearable Weight: An Analysis Of The Critical Tools Bordo Uses To Analyze Anorexia

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By: Jessica Gleason

Words to Live By: Quotes that Will Inspire: A Collection of Famous Quotations

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By: Brigitte Surette

Einstein: His Life and Universe: A Review of Walter Isaacson’s Masterful Biography of Albert Einstein

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By: Margaret M. Williams

Jack London-Voice from the Past: Call of the Wild Author: Adventurer, Political/Social Commentator

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By: Jeannie Delahunt

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: The Inner World of an Iconographic Artist

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By: Leah Cave

Review: I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Sloane Crosley's Debut Collection of Witty Essays Hits the Mark

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By: Feature Writer Lisa Rufle

L'Engle's Two-Part Invention: A Powerful Marriage Memoir from the Author of A Wrinkle in Time

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By: Emily Howson

Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis: A Review of the Book by the Lead Singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers

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By: Michael Peters

Three Biographies of Women Artists: Diane Arbus, Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keefe

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By: Catherine Owen

Book: FBI Vs. Aryan Nations: How Special Agent Helped Informant Infiltrate Neo-Nazi Hate Group

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By: Feature Writer Grace Lichtenstein

The Naked Life of David Sedaris: The NPR Legend Writes Another Book

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By: Robert Isenberg

Book Review: Kamikaze: A Japanese Pilot’s True Story of the Famous Suicide Squadrons

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By: Gary W Toyn

George Stevens: Interviews: Director of Alice Adams, A Place in the Sun, Shane Talks Films

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By: Feature Writer Lindsey Michelle

From Bad to Wurst- Denise Barnes: Bad to Wurst – Bavarian Adventures of a Veggie Cook - Travel Memoir

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By: Feature Writer Rachel L. Webb

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

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By: Gary W Toyn

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

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By: Feature Writer Erin Britton

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

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By: Feature Writer Lisa Rufle

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

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By: Laura Smith

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

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By: Feature Writer Lindsey Michelle

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

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By: Joan Prefontaine

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

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By: Joan Prefontaine

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

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By: Feature Writer Rachel L. Webb

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

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By: Martyn Conterio

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

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By: Feature Writer Lindsey Michelle

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

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By: Joan Prefontaine

Here If You Need Me: Maine Chaplain Kate Braestrup's Memoir of her Search-and-Rescue Work

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By: Joan Prefontaine

Schulz and Peanuts: David Michaelis's Biography of Cartoonist Charles Schulz

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By: Joan Prefontaine

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

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By: Martyn Conterio

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

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By: Feature Writer Lindsey Michelle

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

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By: Laurie Hodges Humble

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

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By: Feature Writer Lindsey Michelle

The Young Winston Churchill: From Boyhood to Parliament

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By: Karen Reams

Celebrity Detox by Rosie O'Donnell: O'Donnell Examines the Television Talk-Show Fame Game

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By: Joan Prefontaine

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

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By: Juliet Bluth

I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir by Jennifer Finney Boylan

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By: Joan Prefontaine

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

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By: Joan Prefontaine

Clapton: The Autobiography: Rock Guitarist Eric Clapton's Journey to Sobriety and Beyond

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By: Joan Prefontaine

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

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By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Love and Consequences by Margaret B. Jones: Latest Memoir to be Fabricated

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By: Feature Writer Lisa Rufle

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

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By: Amahl Majack

Thunderbolt Kid: a Fifties Memoir: Bill Bryson Recalls an Iowa Childhood Filled with Superheroes

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By: Joan Prefontaine

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

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By: Feature Writer Lisa Rufle

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

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By: Christine Musser

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

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By: Juliet Bluth

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

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By: Elaine Walker

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

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By: J.A. Huber

I Wear the Maternity Pants in This Family: Susan Konig's Hilarious Take on Motherhood in Short Essays

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By: Juliet Bluth

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

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By: Sandra Williams

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

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By: George Conrad Gould

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

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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

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By: Feature Writer Jodie Martin

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

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By: Mark H. Leichliter

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

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By: Katrien Vander Straeten

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

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By: Feature Writer Kate Pullen

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

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By: Mona Lisa Safai

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

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By: Feature Writer Bill Scherer

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

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By: Tyler Feltmate

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

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By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

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

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By: Nadine Bonner

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

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By: Feature Writer Melissa Howard

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

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By: Feature Writer Lindsey Michelle

Into the Wild: Chris McCandless Met Death in Alaskan Wilderness

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By: Scott Hayden

Best New Memoir: Mothering Mother by Carol O’Dell

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By: TK Kenyon

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

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By: Colleen Preston

Joan Didion: Further Reading

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By: Colleen Preston

Year of Magical Thinking

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By: Colleen Preston

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