Category: Autobiography/Biography

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Katharine Lee Bates by Melinda M. Ponder

Melinda M. Ponder | Katharine Lee Bates | Katharine Lee Bates’s ‘America the Beautiful’ resonates for many people as the most patriotic and beloved American anthem. Her words remind us of why

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Black Interest Literary Criticism Literary History

Color, Sex, And Poetry by Gloria T. Hull

Gloria T. Hull | Color, Sex, And Poetry | A biographical/critical study of three Harlem Renaissance poets?Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Georgia Douglas Johnson?during a rich a

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Sports

Wonder Girl by Don Van Natta Jr.

Don Van Natta Jr. | Wonder Girl | Experience the extraordinary story of a nearly forgotten American superstar athlete. Texas girl Babe Didrikson never tried a sport too tough and neve

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Law & Government

Thirty-Eight Witnesses by A.M. Rosenthal

A.M. Rosenthal | Thirty-Eight Witnesses | [Rosenthal] told a stunning, tragic story and called each one of us to account for averting our eyes–and hearts–and voices.’-Mike Wallace, 60 Minute

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Law & Government

Twisted Confessions by Charles E. Skoller

Charles E. Skoller | Twisted Confessions | In the early 1960s, the quiet borough of Queens was rocked by the violent and brutal murders of Barbara Kralik, Annie Mae Johnson, and Kitty Genovese.

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Law & Government

Fifty Years After Kitty Genovese by Albert A. Seedman; Peter Hellman

Albert A. Seedman; Peter Hellman | Fifty Years After Kitty Genovese | An investigator in the infamous New York murder looks back on the Kitty Genovese case and examines its enduring legacy. Fifty years after she was vi

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Law & Government

Kitty Genovese by Catherine Pelonero

Catherine Pelonero | Kitty Genovese | Written in a flowing narrative style, “Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences” presents the story of the horri

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Kitty Genovese by Kevin Cook

Kevin Cook | Kitty Genovese | At last, the true story of a crime that shocked the world. New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop–a murder the New

Posted in Autobiographical Fiction Autobiography/Biography

My Autobiography Of Carson Mccullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland

Jenn Shapland | My Autobiography Of Carson Mccullers: A Memoir | ‘While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson McCullers and a woman name

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Literary Criticism Literary History Memoir

No Modernism Without Lesbians by Diana Souhami

Diana Souhami | No Modernism Without Lesbians | The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place – Paris, Between the Wars – fostered the birth of the Modernist m