Sentences with phrase «memoir about her father»

People always assume, when they hear that I'm an avid reader and that I wrote a memoir about my father reading to me for 3,218 consecutive nights, that I own tons of books.

After the publication of his memoir about his father, Big Russ & andamp; Me, NBC commentator Russert began receiving letters from thousands of readers, all sharing memories of their own fathers.

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Grace is working on her first book, Detroit's Daughter, a memoir about surviving her father, her brother, abuse, racism, Christians, boys, and poverty, while growing up in Detroit.

Many in Hollywood say they see the spiritual - memoir - turned - movie as the next hot genre, suggesting there are ongoing talks about turning Lauren Winner's «Girl Meets God» into a romantic comedy, Ian Cron's «Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me» into an action flick, Anne Lamott's «Traveling Mercies» into an indie road trip film, Kathleen Norris» «The Cloister Walk» into something really creepy involving monks.»

In his 2014 memoir, Cuomo wrote about Percoco, his former executive deputy secretary who ran Cuomo's re-election campaign and worked in the administration of Cuomo's father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo.

In «Dreams from my Father,» Obama's 1995 memoir, the future president wrote about his half - brother's attempts to sever all ties with his father aFather,» Obama's 1995 memoir, the future president wrote about his half - brother's attempts to sever all ties with his father afather and the

But that's where she finds herself as the director of «First They Killed My Father,» the Netflix film based on Loung Ung's memoir about growing up in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS I for India (Unrated) Sandhya Suri explores the issue of assimilation in this bittersweet memoir about her family's migration from India to England in 1965, well documented due to her father's having filmed them for the past 40 years with the help of a couple of Super 8 cameras and a tape recorder.

The show — based on American cartoonist Alison Bechdel's graphic coming - of - age (and coming out) memoir about growing up in Pennsylvania with Bruce, her mercurial mortician father; Helen, her actress mother; and two younger brothers — will begin performances at the Young Vic from June 18.

The Glass Castle is an adaptation of Jeannette Walls» memoir of the same name about her unmoored childhood with her alcoholic father and enabler mother.

Students in eighth grade English acted out scenes from Dreams From My Father, a memoir about Barack Obama's youth.

Her memoir about her New Hampshire childhood with a petty crook of a father who would never, ever get the Parents Magazine seal of approval is both hilarious and harrowing.

This is a memoir about their lives, their heroism, and the ways that sons are shaped and enriched by their fathers.

Lunar Park is a mash - up of fake memoir, schlocky horror splatter-fest and straight - ahead traditional novel about fathers and sons.

A major literary figure tells «a searching tale of loss, recovery, and deja vu that is part memoir and what - if speculation, part polemic and exposé» (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family — civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis.

Gabrielle Selz has published her first book, a memoir about growing up in the art world with her singular father, Peter Selz, a former chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art.

Grant's daughter, Jennifer Grant, addressed rumors that her father was gay in her 2011 memoir about him: «Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay.

Roger Stone, a longtime Trump adviser, has written in his own campaign memoir about «geo - targeting» cities to deliver a debunked claim that Bill Clinton had fathered a child out of wedlock, and narrowing down the audience «based on preferences in music, age range, black culture, and other urban interests.»