Sentences with phrase «autobiographical book as»

This film is based on a true story and uses Benjamin Mee «s autobiographical book as the basic source material.

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My candidate for a «prophet to the liberals» is Will Campbell, publisher of the journal Katallagete and author of the highly acclaimed Brother to a Dragonfly, an autobiographical book about the lives of Will and his brother, Joe, as they leave their father's small cotton farm in Mississippi — Will to become a civil rights worker for the National Council of Churches, Joe to become a small - town pharmacist.

He also wrote a collection of best - selling books on illness and healing as well as his memoir, Human Options: An Autobiographical Notebook.

Plath described the book as «an autobiographical apprentice work which I had to write in order to free myself from the past.»

Jane was embarrassed when Alice referred to herself as an artist rather than a writer, and thought her books strove to appear more highbrow than they were; Alice found Jane's work rather formless, and at times bleatingly autobiographical.

Although there's nothing autobiographical about the book (except my maternal grandparents have a brief cameo role), I learned a lot about the disease, both by researching it as much as I could when my mother was first diagnosed, and then by observation.

In the Classroom: As we read and share memoirs with children, we should also talk about that «continuum» of life - story poetry and help students understand the distinct nature of each type, showing examples of poetry as memoir (Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming), fictionalized memoir (Carole Boston Weatherford's Becoming Billie Holiday), mock memoir (Gary Crew's Troy Thompson's Excellent Peotry [sic] Book), and autobiographical novels in verse (Thanhha Lai's Inside Out and Back AgainAs we read and share memoirs with children, we should also talk about that «continuum» of life - story poetry and help students understand the distinct nature of each type, showing examples of poetry as memoir (Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming), fictionalized memoir (Carole Boston Weatherford's Becoming Billie Holiday), mock memoir (Gary Crew's Troy Thompson's Excellent Peotry [sic] Book), and autobiographical novels in verse (Thanhha Lai's Inside Out and Back Againas memoir (Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming), fictionalized memoir (Carole Boston Weatherford's Becoming Billie Holiday), mock memoir (Gary Crew's Troy Thompson's Excellent Peotry [sic] Book), and autobiographical novels in verse (Thanhha Lai's Inside Out and Back Again).

Comment: Underwater to Get Out of the Rain is a gentle, amusing and informative read but it is a little misleading to call it autobiographical as the flow of the book is only loosely connected to the events in Norton's life, with significant life moments providing jumping off points for enjoyable tangents.

Maxine is an incredibly accomplished travel writer and this has not gone unnoticed by the industry, having been awarded two Lowell Thomas awards and her autobiographical Places in Time named as the Best Travel Book of the Year in 2006 (by the North American Travel Journalists Association).

Autobiographical in the modernist and realist painting tradition, his paintings depict his own personal effects that include biker paraphernalia such as jackets, boots, helmets and gloves, alongside his packets of cigarettes and books.

His textual works, photographs, collages, films, artist books and installations all contain autobiographical as well as literary references.

By weaving together historical fact, autobiographical data or excerpts from science - fiction films and didactic books, they build narratives and stories which amalgamate relevant coincidences from the past, as well as foretell the future.

Crimp: I see the polarity in this book not as emotional and intellectual, but something more like autobiographical and critical.

«In this image I tried to imagine a picture of Dorothea Brooke ala a young George Eliot, as the book is partially autobiographical.

This autobiographical photo book covers topics such as their childhoods and what they learned from them, family traditions and hopes and dreams for their open adoption relationship.