Category: Autobiography/Biography

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Graphic Novel

Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home by Nicole J. Georges

Nicole J. Georges | Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home | Nicole Georges’ second book is, like her first book Calling Doctor Laura, a graphic novel and memoir. But it’s also a love story, dedicated not to ano

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Apocalypse, Darling by Barrie Jean Borich

Barrie Jean Borich | Apocalypse, Darling | Barrie Jean Borich’s Apocalypse, Darling is a lyrical memoir that reads like a long-form narrative poem, wrought with long, sweeping sentences and dre

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Called Back by Mary Cappello

Mary Cappello | Called Back | “Mary Cappello’s Called Back shimmers on the page. Ezra Pound said a writer has to ‘make it new’ and Cappello has done that rare feat. Cancer books ha

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Grier Rated

The Perfect Gentleman by June Rose

June Rose | The Perfect Gentleman | The life of Dr. James Miranda Barry, born about 1799, who, disguised as a man, served in the British army for forty- six years until retirement at the

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Religion & Spirituality

Ladies Of The Rope by William Patrick Patterson

William Patrick Patterson | Ladies Of The Rope | This is the first book to examine the Rope, the special ladies-only group of spiritual seekers that G. I. Gurdjieff formed on Paris’ Left Bank. All le

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Bright Particular Star by Joseph Leach

Joseph Leach | Bright Particular Star | I thought at first that Mr. Leach had adopted too fictional a tone for this long biography. Facts are communicated as they might have impinged on thos

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Love in Good Time by Claire Robson

Claire Robson | Love in Good Time | This memoir is by turns laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreakingly poignant. It is a coming-out story that tackles the trade-offs some gay people make a

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Non-Fiction

Butch Heroes by Ria Brodell

Ria Brodell | Butch Heroes | Visual artist Brodell delivers an ambitious and wonderfully celebratory ode to the lives of 28 people over many centuries ‘assigned female at birth’ w

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I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro

Tig Notaro | I’m Just a Person | In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C-diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Law & Government

Case of a Lifetime by Abbe Smith

Abbe Smith | Case of a Lifetime | A recent study estimates that thousands of innocent people are wrongfully imprisoned each year in the United States. Some are exonerated through DNA e