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Posts Tagged ‘autobiography’

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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Fans of The Art of Racing in the Rain, get ready for a memoir that Garth Stein calls “stunning . . . an incredible journey, both inward and outward.” Read It Forward favorite Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted and Cowboys Are My Weakness, says Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild “is a big, brave, break-your-heart-and-put-it-back-together-again kind of book. Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer. She walked the Pacific Crest Trail to find forgiveness, came back with generosity – and now she shares her reward with us. I snorted with laughter, I wept uncontrollably; I don’t even want to know the person who isn’t going to love Wild. This is a beautifully made, utterly realized book.”

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Tags: autobiography, biography, cheryl strayed, knopf, memoir, wild
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Patti LuPone’s Extraordinary Memoir in Paperback

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

The funny, irreverent, irresistible Carol Burnett – author of This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection – says, “Patti’s story had me from the moment I turned to page one of the prologue until the absolutely triumphant final chapter . . . . She tells it like it is, warts and all. And by the time I finished reading the last chapter, I found myself giving Patti a standing ovation in the privacy of my very own living room.”

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Tags: autobiography, memoir, music, Patti LuPone, three rivers press
Posted in Meet the Author


Lucia Greenhouse’s Journey Out of Christian Science

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

“In the back of my mind,” writes Lucia Greenhouse, author of fathermothergod, “was a little boy I didn’t know named Ian Lundman. In 1989, three years after my mother died, Ian Lundman died of untreated juvenile diabetes. His mother had been a Christian Scientist. When Ian became ill, his mother called a Christian Science practitioner (it could have been my father, but wasn’t) instead of a doctor. A Christian Science nurse sat beside this little boy as he lay dying of something that insulin would have successfully treated.” RIFers! In a book group? Check out the end of this post for a special offer for your group.

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Tags: autobiography, crown publishers, crown publishing group, fathermothegod, history, lucia greenhouse, memoir, nonfiction, religion
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Katharine Weber on The Memory of All That

Friday, July 8th, 2011

“When I set out to write The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family’s Legacy of Infidelities, although at the heart of the story lay my grandmother’s romance with George Gershwin and how it has affected my family over the decades, and how it has affected my own definitions of love and marriage, I thought I was going to write a book about family stories – how we tell them, and how we hear them, what they mean to us, how the narrative impulse functions in a family’s identity, and how all this influenced me as a novelist.

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Tags: autobiography, katharine weber, memoir, the memory of all that
Posted in Meet the Author


Sandra Beasley on Embracing Life with Allergies

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

“In my new memoir, Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life,” says Sandra Beasley, “I delve into the nitty-gritty of how food allergies affect us, all the way from childhood into our teenage and adult years. I don’t just mean how allergies impact our physical selves (though that can be comically mortifying) but how they shape our social selves, our romantic selves, our role in a family, and our sense of mortality. Your worldview changes when something as simple as a bite of cake or a first-date kiss can send you to the hospital.”

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Tags: allergies, autobiography, crown publishing group, Don't Kill the Birthday Girl, family, health, memoir, narrative non-fiction, Sandra Beasley
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Hamilton Cain on Growing Up Baptist

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

“Linguists tell us that narratives are innate in an infant,” writes Hamilton Cain, “coiled inside a secret chamber of the mind, ripening in the dark until the moment someone or something calls them forth. The stories I first heard as a toddler came from my parents as they tucked me into a lower bunk: the baby in the manger, those lions and zebras and chimpanzees parading onto Noah’s ark, two by two. I still recall the hushed cadence of my father’s voice as it stirred an embryonic feeling inside me, one that Bible Drill would shape into an emotion more intricate and transformative, a love wide and deep.”

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Tags: autobiography, baptist, crown publishing group, hamilton cain, memoir, religion, This Boy's Faith
Posted in Meet the Author


Philip Patrick on Editing Sean Manning’s Memoir The Things That Need Doing

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

I approach editing as a kind of carpentry: first a rough cut, then assembly, and then the finishing with finer and finer grades of sandpaper until the work is well-constructed, feels right to the touch. An editor suggests, asks, cajoles, demands, and pushes a writer as much as he can get away with. Editing a memoir, so deeply personal, can be even trickier. (Hey, about that chapter about your grandfather. I think we should cut it…) I warned Sean early on that I expected him to be sick of me by the time we were done. But he displayed great patience with my demands all the way through. In many regards, I think the book was a continuation of the vigil and companionship with his mom.

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Tags: autobiography, Broadway, family, memoir, philip patrick, sean manning, the things that need doing
Posted in Meet the Editor


Press Release: Crown Announces 1.5 Million Copy First Printing for Decision Points by George W. Bush

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

THE CROWN PUBLISHING GROUP
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Contact: David Drake
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DECISION POINTS BY GEORGE W. BUSH
PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 9 WITH 1.5 MILLION COPY FIRST PRINTING
— Crown Publishers to Simultaneously Release Deluxe E-book Edition with Videos, Speeches, and Additional Photographs
New York, NY (October 7, 2010) — Decision Points by George W. Bush will be published in North America on [...]

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Tags: 9/11, autobiography, book, Bush Afganistan, Bush Drinking, Bush Economy, Bush Faith, Bush Family, Bush Iraq, Bush Stem Cell Research, Crown, crown publishers, decision points, Decisions, Deluxe E-book Edition, E-book, george w. bush, memoir, President Bush, September 11, The Crown Publishing Group
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Press Release: Decision Points by George W. Bush To Be Published By Crown November 9, 2010

Sunday, April 25th, 2010


FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH’S MEMOIR, DECISION POINTS,
TO BE PUBLISHED BY CROWN ON NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Publisher Unveils Book Jacket

New York, NY (April 26, 2010) — Decision Points, by George W. Bush, will be published on November 9, 2010, by Crown Publishers. This groundbreaking new brand of memoir will be centered on the fourteen most critical and historic decisions in the life and public service of the 43rd President of the United States.
The book will be released simultaneously in the U.S. and Canada in hardcover, e-book, and audio formats. The announcement was made today by Tina Constable, Vice President, Publisher, Crown Publishers, who also unveiled the book jacket.

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Tags: autobiography, decision points, george w. bush, memoir, press release
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A Journal for Jordan by Dana Canedy

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Praised by reviewers as “a gift,” “hauntingly beautiful, gripping, important,” “heartfelt,” “gut-wrenching,” and “powerful,” this inspiring story is now in paperback and perfect for your book group.

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Tags: A Journal for Jordan, autobiography, Dana Canedy, iraq, memoir, three rivers press
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