Autobiography: General

A sober memoir that provides a solid understanding of how crime is situated in structural, cultural, historical, and situational contexts. This is ...

The carefully crafted, meditative essays in On the Shoreline of Knowledge sometimes start from unlikely objects or thoughts, a pencil or some fragm...

I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone. This is what Terry Tempest Williams' mother,...

Writer, international civil servant, broadcaster and critic, Richard Mayne wrote The Copper Stick as a record for his children. His family has publ...

While eyewitness accounts of the Civil War by enlisted men are uncommon, even scarcer are personal narratives from the Civil War in the West. These...

Drawing on exclusive final interviews with Frank, and with unprecedented access to his closest relatives, Mad Frank and Sons follows his rise from ...

From Warsaw to Winnipeg, is a wonderfully written account of one man's voyage from the 'old' to the 'new' world. It enompasses a personal and an hi...

As law enforcement officer and game manager for the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Lt. Tom Shirley was the law in one of the last tr...

Part memoir, part cultural history, this is a book about the history of homebuilding in America over the past 100 years, told through twelve unique...

On October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation that changed many lives beyond his ownhe made his skin black and traveled throu...

The first memoir written by a person with Down syndrome In this inspiring memoir, David Egan tells his own story, authentically describing a life ...

The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ruicková, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. 'Extraordinary' Sunday Times 'Compelling' Daily T...

Shifting Into High Gear charts the course of Kyle Bryant''s transformation as he journeys on a recumbent tricycle across the United States in the t...

Julie Rehmeyer felt like she was going to the desert to die. Julie fully expected to be breathing at the end of the trip--but driving into Death Va...

Based on authentic love letters, written to the author by a hapless bullfighter Discover post civil war Andalusia, with its Moorish past through th...

With this exquisitely composed [essay collection], Patrice Gopo sets herself apart as one of the most promising and talented writers of faith of ou...

Told through South African conservationist Clive Walkers own experiences, Baobab Trails is the story of a 40-year journey that covered nearly 28,00...

This fascinating autobiography is set against the backdrop of some of the most dramatic episodes of the twentieth century. It is the story of a stu...

Claude Lacaille witnessed up close the oppression and poverty in Haiti, Ecuador, and Chile where dictators and predatory imperialists ruled. Like o...