Sentences with phrase «autobiographical books about»

In 1997, a Transgender male author published a series of graphic autobiographical books about his sexual and physical abuse... or so everyone thought!

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.

Not exact matches

In part, it was because this book, while not overtly autobiographical, is a deeply personal statement about the urgency....

Told in flashback, the film consists of Chaplin's responses to questioning by fictional publisher George Hayden, who wants to know about the parts left out of the legend's autobiographical book.

Based on the 1968 comedy of the same name (which itself was based on an autobiographical book by Helen Beardsley), this remake is about nothing more than 2 middle - aged newlyweds, their ten kids, and a whole lot of chaos.

Some books will be about the history of the game \'s creation, some will focus on particular elements like level design, story, and music, some will investigate the subculture that has formed around a game, some will bring in outside art, science, and media, some will have a strong autobiographical element.

You could probably say that the entire book is my attempt to understand what my mother was experiencing (not that there was anything autobiographical about the novel — I wanted to explore the effect of disease on characters and relationships).

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 Again).

There's a lot to love about Peter Sís» autobiographical picture book, an adventure story that pays tribute to the enduring imagination of children.

The book is a natural companion to Say's other autobiographical picture book, Tree of Cranes (1991), about his childhood in Japan and his mother remembering her childhood Christmas in California.

He sublet his Brooklyn studio and moved back to his hometown near Washington, DC, for a few months to focus on painting and complete Painters Journal, an autobiographical book project about 1999, his first year in New York.

In 1994 Emin undertook a U.S. tour of performance art for which, sitting in her grandmother's chair, she read from «Exploration of the Soul,» a handwritten autobiographical book (subsequently published in 2003) chiefly about her childhood.

At the time his death, on May 18, 2012, he was penning the autobiographical Close to the Bone, a book about his fifteen + year relationship with multiple myeloma (bone cancer), the treatments that followed, and the effects the disease and modern medicine had upon his life and spiritual beliefs.