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A Memoir
by Bill Bryson
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by Michael Chabon
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author "an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award-winning fiction.
by Gail Caldwell
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsA memoir of culture and history of fathers and daughters, of two world wars and the passionate rebellions of the sixties. It is also about the mythology of place and the evolution of a sensibility: and about how literature can shape and even anticipate a life.
by Alan Alda
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsAlan Alda, one of Americas most recognizable and acclaimed actors, has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances.
by Cheryl Peck
Published Jan 2004
Read ReviewsPeck unfolds these biographical stories with a healthy sense of humor and intelligent wit exploring the themes of family, growing up, love and loss.
by Haven Kimmel
Published May 2002
Read ReviewsThis witty and lovingly told memoir takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period--people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.
by David Sedaris
Published Jun 2001
Read ReviewsTells a most unconventional life story. "Original, acid, and wild" --said the Los Angeles Times. Written as 17 autobiographical essays.
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