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Dance on the earth: a memoir
Par Margaret Laurence. 1989
Black berry, sweet juice: on being black and white in Canada
Par Lawrence Hill. 2001
The son of a black father and a white mother, Lawrence Hill begins this book with personal stories about how…
his parents met and married, what it was like growing up in an otherwise entirely white Toronto suburb, and how his own children are beginning to forge a sense of racial identity. Includes his coast-to-coast interviews with Canadians of black and white parentage. 2001.An aesthetic underground: a literary memoir
Par John Metcalf. 2003
The memoirs of John Metcalf, Canadian writer and literary editor, who always looks for elegance, sophistication, and invention, and who…
believes in promoting the shockingly new. Since the 1960's, he has helped get Canadian writing into schools, organized readings and conferences, helped found the Writer's Union of Canada, and documented the history of Canadian publishing. Metcalf has also nurtured many writers, among them Leonard Rooke, Alice Munro, Matt Cohen, and Rohinton Mistry. Some strong language. 2003.Alice Munro: a double life (Canadian biography series)
Par Catherine Sheldrick Ross. 1992
Biography of Canadian Alice Munro, one of the world's best contemporary short story authors. Examines her development as a writer…
and her struggle to balance the demands of her personal life with those of being a writer. 1992. (Canadian biography series)The way forward is with a broken heart
Par Alice Walker. 2000
This collection opens with a passionate account of Alice Walker's early marriage to a Jewish lawyer and their life in…
racist Mississippi, giving voice to idealism, lost love and hope. This is followed by tales of sisters, of family, of love for men and for women. These stories consider issues of racism and slavery, politics and sex.Typing: a life in 26 keys
Par Matt Cohen. 2000
Matt Cohen's last book, a memoir, describes his life as a writer. Also dealing with the Canadian literary scene of…
his time, he includes portraits of such figures as Margaret Laurence and Morley Callaghan. He charts his progress as a writer, and the inspiration he received by moving from Toronto to a farm near Kingston.The life of Margaret Laurence
Par James King. 1997
King investigates the life and character of one of Canada's greatest novelists. He finds a woman who rivalled her greatest…
creation, Hagar Shipley, in strength and determination, yet also a woman fraught with uncertainty and insecurity. 1997.Restless genius: the story of Virginia Woolf (World writers)
Par Virginia Brackett. 2004
Covers the people and events of writer Virginia Woolf's childhood and adult life, and her relationships with her father, sister,…
husband, and, to a lesser extent, other relatives and members of the Bloomsbury group. Focuses on her mental health and on her work, which took fiction in a new direction at a time when women writers were uncommon. Includes a time line, a bibliography, and source notes. For junior high readers. 2004.Shakespeare: the biography
Par Peter Ackroyd. 2005
Sheds new light on the life of the great Elizabethan playwright and poet, reassessing Shakespeare's work within the context of…
sixteenth-century London and Stratford-upon-Avon, as well as his lasting legacy for world literature. 2005.Where the heart is: a writer in Provence
Par Marita Van der Vyver, Annelize Visser. 2006
Van der Vyver, a Capetonian writer, married a Frenchman and moved to the south of France. She continues to write…
her novels there in her home language, therefore valuing her one or two trips a year back to South Africa. But her enjoyment of her adopted home - though its bureaucracy can bring tears - shines through, even as she describes renovations, strikes, and the quest for food colouring. 2006.The sleeping buddha: the story of Afghanistan through the eyes of one family
Par Hamida Ghafour. 2007
In 2003, journalist Ghafour was sent to Afghanistan, which she had fled in 1981, to cover the country's reconstruction. In…
a place totally changed from the world her parents had described, she discovered a school which teaches women a new kind of independence, her cousin's determined parliamentary campaign, and the archaeologist digging for his country's lost civilization in the form of a giant sleeping Buddha. Some descriptions of violence. 2007.Travels with Farley: a memoir
Par Claire Mowat. 2005
After the stillborn death of their first and only child, Farley Mowat persuaded his wife Claire to go with him…
to the Magdalen Islands to make a film. Falling in love with the area, they bought a house there, which became an exotic destination for friends and luminaries of the period. Claire Mowat provides an intimate portrait of a marriage and a window on Farley Mowat's writing life during this time. Some strong language. 2005.Auto da Fay: an autobiography
Par Fay Weldon. 2002
A telling look into Fay Weldon's busy life. She was brought up in a household of women, survived the Second…
World War in England, attended university at St. Andrews, worked as a copywriter in London, had many relationships, and a family. It is this full life experience that prepared her for writing. 2002.When Eve was naked: a journey through life
Par Josef Škvorecký. 2000
Skvorecky's autobiography told in stories. Collected here in a chronological sweep, they take the reader through the stages of the…
author's life, and bear witness to some of the twentieth century's most eventful and tragic times -- from prewar Prague through the Nazi occupation and World War II. Translated from Czech. c2000.Lucy Maud Montgomery: a writer's life (Snapshots: Images Of People And Places In History Ser.)
Par Valerie Wyatt, Elizabeth MacLeod. 2001
Stephen Leacock: his remarkable life
Par A. F Moritz, Theresa Moritz. 2002
A comprehensive and thoroughly researched biography of Stephen Leacock, one the best-loved humorists in the English speaking world as well…
as a professional economist. Based on private letters, diaries, newspaper accounts and memoirs, it explores his personal and public lives, his amazing creative process, and the impact he had as a writer, teacher and thinker. 2002.Writers talking
Par John Metcalf, Claire Wilkshire. 2003
Includes interviews with and commentaries from eight Canadian writers. Listen in to Terry Griggs on where stories come from, Michael…
Winter on writing Newfoundland, and K.D. Miller on being 'an actor who writes'. Also features short stories by these authors. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2003.With Borges
Par Alberto Manguel. 2004
During the 1960s, Manguel, then a teenager, spent many evenings reading to Jorge Luis Borges, a giant of modern literature,…
because Borges had gradually become blind. As the author describes his visits to Borges in his dark, modest apartment, reading out loud and talking about books, we have a privileged look into the inner world of a literary legend, a window into the private life of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. Winner of the Prix du Livre en Poitou-Charentes 2003.The voice gallery: travels with a glass throat
Par Keath Fraser. 2002
For twenty years, the author battled a rare disorder that caused him agonizing episodes of broken speech, leading to the…
loss of his voice. Mislead by the medical profession, convinced that the problem was psychological, Fraser finally received a proper diagnosis and found some relief with Botox, a drug mainly used to smooth out wrinkles. He then set out around the world to find others like himself, and to record in this memoir the wonders and frailties of the human voice. Some strong language. 2002.The last Canadian poet: an essay on Al Purdy
Par Sam Solecki. 1999
This study takes into account not only Purdy's more than forty published books, but also the manuscripts from the Purdy…
archives at the University of Saskatchewan and Queen's University. Suggests that Purdy's work articulates a vision of Canada, both of what it is and of what it might be. Purdy's poems record his sense of being in the world as a Canadian, of being rooted in a particular landscape, way of life, and history. Some strong language. 1999.