 | | 6 guides found for biography & memoir |
 | | 5898 products found for biography & memoir  | Senator Edward M. Kennedy's death in August, 2009 was a time for a major reassessment his life and career, as well as of his place in American history. Kennedy's great achievements and his acknowledged (and perhaps equally great) flaws were the... |  | Jeannette Walls's memoir revolves around her parents, who give the concept of bad parenting a whole new meaning. Her irresponsible romantic of a father was an inventor of outlandishly useless devices, and her mother, an artist, was his abettor. As... |  | In this shocking and hilarious memoir, comedian and reality TV star Kathy Griffin unleashes her typical caustic charm and irreverent wit on several of the celebrities who have used her head as a rung on the ladder to stardom. Griffin recounts her... |  | After years of teaching creative writing, Frank McCourt published his first book, thus obliging his many friends who had been urging him to write about his childhood--a subject they knew from the many uproarious and affecting stories he told about... |  | Mary Karr's astonishingly candid--and controversial--account of her childhood and the abuses she sustained as the daughter of an alcoholic mother with a 'nervous' condition. |  | Bestselling author Dean Koontz offers this touching and heartfelt tribute to his beloved dog, Trixie. Koontz shares with readers the intimate lessons that his 60-pound companion taught him: lessons about himself; lessons about what it means to... |  | Arriving in the United States as a poor, fairly uneducated young man, Frank McCourt became an accomplished English teacher and author. This is the story of his incredible transformation, a follow-up memoir to the Pulitzer Prize-winning ANGELA'S... |  | |  | A fascinating, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting tale of self-discovery from the beloved actress who earned a permanent place in the hearts of millions when she was just a child playing the role of buck-toothed Laura "Half-pint" Ingalls on... |  | Norman Ollestad's father, an adventurist and FBI agent, was fairly obsessed with channeling his son's course through life. Almost from the time Norman took his first steps, his father was strapping skis to the toddler's tiny feet and hurling him down... |
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