Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

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Teaching teenagers is a calling. Despite limited social respect and wages that sometimes border on mere subsistence, dedicated professionals heed the call. The job is not easy.

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There have been many instances where one wishes one could have been a fly on the wall in order to know what was said at the time or what really happened, particularly, say, in the commission of a c

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Andreas Kluth tells us that Plutarch, who lived from 46 CE to 120 CE, is widely acclaimed as the father of biography.

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"experience the wonder of Shapiro’s magical prose."

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". . . a fitting end to the Wiesen Cook’s Eleanor Roosevelt biographical project."

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Of Dogs and Other People: The Art of Roy De Forest does a wonderful job of presenting both the person of Roy De Forest and the artwork he created.

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Famed 18th century jurist William Blackstone once said, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." Theoretically, this is a bedrock principle of American criminal

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When promoting Inside Joy Division in 2012, Peter Hook hinted that a tell-all New Order book might be in the pipeline.

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Almost 20 years ago, David Brooks laid out the one reason journalists should pay attention to Princeton students. The kids at Princeton today are the leaders of most places tomorrow.

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". . . a passionately written j’accuse against the French collaborators . . ."

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“one of the best books to come out in many months.”

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“Javelin catcher, confidant, consigliere, battlefield commander.” These are some common roles undertaken by the White House Chief of Staff.

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“a worthwhile read. It will most certainly fascinate Dos Passos and Hemingway aficionados, as well as the casual literary biography enthusiast.”

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One can always trust the police to be dogged and to keep voluminous records, though they’re not always accurate.

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It’s difficult to describe quite how delightful this book is for a word nerd.

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There have always been fierce rivalries between countries to protect their people and their goods. Enmity has often engendered conflict.

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“an amazing true story that is told with immeasurable depth and compassion . . .  an extraordinary glimpse . . .”

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“an author who has carved out her own territory and made the personal essay into a thing of beauty.”

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Nearly every holiday magnified not just a personal gratitude, but a larger one . . .

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Robert Lowell was at the forefront of post WWII American letters, his volumes of poetry The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Life Studies, and Lord Weary’s Castle among the most lauded po

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At the University of Pennsylvania, where I teach memoir, I’ve started a tradition.

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“Yes, I believe [Steven] Avery is innocent. This is my opinion, which I know is not worth very much, but my opinion is based on an assessment of the evidence.”
—Jerome F. Buting

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“a delight as well as a revelation.”

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British classical pianist James Rhodes is a rebel with a cause as he unleashes his iconoclastic view of the vaulted world of classical music in concert halls and on British TV and in the streets an

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