Sentences with phrase «memoir about the life he lived»

He said he followed in Colin The aristocrat wrote a best - selling memoir about the life he lived in Sandaig with his pet otters, and his eccentric devotion to them inspired a generation.

The aristocrat wrote a best - selling memoir about the life he lived in Sandaig with his pet otters, and his eccentric devotion to them inspired a generation.

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«I love books about people coming into their vocations, and this haunting memoir by musician Patti Smith brilliantly evokes a time and place in New York City, as she and Robert Mapplethorpe began to build artistic lives for themselves,» says Rubin of this one.

Following a 2009 memoir about his mobbed - up life and the launch of a consultancy business, Mob Rules is Ferrante's latest effort to leverage his underworld past.

Eighty percent of Hillbilly Elegy is the memoir about his childhood and exposure to life in poor, working - class towns bereft of their former manufacturing employers.

It includes my memoir about church and body life with dozens of lessons learned.

And it's because there is this misconception about memoir: you write because you've had some kind of unusual life.

If you were to write a memoir about the last five years of your life, what would the title of your book be?

Hornbacker has now written a book about being bipolar (Madness: A Bipolar Life), a book about having anorexia (Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.)-RRB-, a book that... I don't know... this one was last year, and you REALLY would've thought that this one should have summed the whole thing up (Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the 12 Steps), and now this.

Even though it won't be released until June of 2010, my first book — a spiritual memoir about growing up in the conservative evangelical subculture only to question my faith as a young adult — is really starting to come to life.

Greene has written fairly extensively about his own experience, including a memoir of his first 30 years, A Sort of Life (1971).

Dreher's memoir is about more than life and death; it is also about the American dream.

There is in the memoir none of the romanticism about work that can quickly become far removed from life and hard to believe.

But when I read the paragraph I just quoted, and set it over against what you write in the memoir about several important natural ties, I must judge the paragraph to be inadequate to «life's complexities.»

No one can read what you have written in this memoir about your son, Adam, or about your marriage, later in life, to Paula, and suppose that you disdain either of these natural ties.

It was my conviction that, as no professional biographer in his right mind would touch Whitehead, someone who knew him and his work should write as much about this great man's life as the scanty materials allowed; not a memoir, mind you, but an objective partial biography.

According to Sports Illustrated (SI), who interviewed her about her memoir, she wrote: «The debate of when life begins swirled through my head, and the veil of a child out of wedlock at the prime of my career seemed unbearable.

Her travel memoir, The Other Side of Russia: A Slice of Life in Siberia and the Russian Far East, won a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year award, and her book about the regional cuisines of Spain received a literary award from the German Academy of Gastronomy.

He finally confronts the question so often asked of him in It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium, his disarmingly honest and bittersweet memoir about his life as an ex-athlete, the best sports book of the year.

How can a memoir about tragic death (from cancer, on the cusp of 40, with two small children) be so vibrantly about life itself?

I love all of Dani's writing, and this memoir is no exception: in short pieces, Dani evokes so much about long marriage, about the sometimes confounding way memory works, about life itself.

In honesty, I would not write a memoir of my sexual reawakening post-divorce (yes, I had that, too, even though my former husband and I had a happy and active sex life right until the end) because I don't think my kids, at 20 and 23, want to know too much (or anything, really) about my sex life.

Jillian Lauren writes about it in her fascinating memoir, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem.

Marguerite Elisofon is a New York City writer and the author of My Picture Perfect Family, a memoir about how her family navigated life with a child on the autistic spectrum before the internet and support groups existed.

Marguerite Elisofon is a New York City writer and the author of My Picture Perfect Family: What Happens When One Twin Has Autism, a memoir about how her family navigated life with a child on the autistic spectrum before the internet and support groups existed.

For example, Norris Church in her memoir «A Ticket to the Circus» about her life with Norman Mailer admitted assaulting him numerous times without any physical reprisals.

Mr Brown, who has just published a memoir, talks about a possible «game changer» on Brexit, the measures needed to stop Scotland becoming like Catalonia and his belief that political leaders have a «shelf life» of about six years.

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J. Wickwire and D. Bullitt, Addicted to danger: A memoir about affirming life in the face of death (Pocket Books, New York, 1998)

Simply Gloria is a personal memoir and a lifestyle blog where I share the love about... food, crafts, family, and just life itself.

She is completing a memoir about life, and a few near deaths, in a narcissistic family.

(For a fuller picture of Bradlee, who died in 2014 at the age of 93, watch the HBO documentary about him, The Newspaperman, with much of the voice - over supplied by Bradlee's audiobook narration of his 1995 memoir, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures, which is itself a fun, bawdy read.)

Cheryl Strayed's popular memoir, «Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail», provides the basis for this soul - searching drama about the path to recovery, here literal, that many addicts face in order to get their life on the right track.

Huisman will take on the role of Steven Crane, the oldest Crane sibling and a published writer of supernatural books — including a memoir about his family's time living at Hill House.

EXCLUSIVE: The Stars in My Soul, a memoir co-written by Hakeem Oluseyi about his life, has just been picked up by Working Title.

Last July, we reported that Paul Rudd would star in Errol Morris «non-documentary feature based on the memoir We Froze the First Man and a This American Life story about Bob Nelson, a California TV repairman who was obsessed with...

Julie Taymor will helm a coming - of - age biopic about feminist journalist and activist Gloria Steinem, based on Steinem's bestselling memoir My Life on the Road, adapted for the screen by Tony Award - and Pulitzer Prize - nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl.

Gist: Based on Sybil Rosen's memoir Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze, this is about the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas Outlaw Music movement that spawned the likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson.

The film is based on Solomon Northup's memoir about his life in slavery after being abducted as a free man in New York.

A big screen treatment on Augusten Burroughs» semi-autobiographical memoir about his tumultuous childhood growing up with an oddball mother, Deirdre (Benning, Mrs. Harris), who sends him to live with her highly unorthodox psychiatrist, Dr, Finch (Cox, Red Eye), whose home environment proves to be even more strange than the one he was being sheltered from.

Life Itself is also the title of Roger Ebert's 2011 memoir and a new documentary about him.

While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and sugarcane were harvested and processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»

Now Friedkin has published a surprisingly forthright and fascinating memoir, The Friedkin Connection, in which he dishes about his career and his life.

Judging from her memoir, Dolezal genuinely can not understand why anybody would see anything remotely comic about a white woman deciding relatively late in life that she's Black.

Playbill Idina Menzel didn't want to write a memoir so her sister wrote a book about their lives «Voice Lessons: A Sisters Story» / Film Corey Haim & Corey Feldman, teen idols of the late 80s, are getting the Lifetime movie treatment W Magazine Cara Delevingne is now an author («Mirror Mirror») and a brunette The New Yorker «Everything that I'm afraid might happen now that I've lost my headphones»

Higher Ground (Unrated) Vera Farmiga makes her directorial debut and stars in this adaptation of The Dark World, Carolyn Briggs» memoir about a Born Again Christian who comes to question her faith while living in a tight - knit, evangelical community.

It is a critically acclaimed and brutally honest memoir about his life, including his youth.

In addition, if you go with a company like CreateSpace (a subsidiary of Amazon), you don't have to worry about the «shelf life» of your memoir since you can always order copies of your book.

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The first round of books includes How to be a Playgirl, a short memoir on love, life and journalism from Mental Floss managing editor Jessanne Collins, and High - Status Characters, a book about New York's Upright Citizens Brigade theater by Brian Raftery.