From Barbie's fashion book to Amy Dowden's autobiography. By Mireia MullorUpdated: 13 September 2024House of the Dragon's making of book, The Bridgerton book collection, Barbie's fashion book and Doctor Who's ultimate encyclopaedia are among the best books about movies, TV and everything po...
✩ Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for an outstanding biography or autobiography The historian and best-selling author Keisha N. Blain examines the life and work of the Black activist Fannie Lou Hamer, positioning her as a key political thinker alongside leaders such as Martin Luther King ...
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Building upon her celebrated autobiographyDistant Fathers, Italian author Marina Jarre returns to her native Latvia for the first time since she left as a ten-year-old girl in 1935. A masterful collage-like work that is part travelogue, part memoir, part ruminative essay... from...
the U.S., “psychiatrists speculated that Stein suffered from palilalia, a speech disorder that causes patients to stutter over words or phrases”), but in 1933 “she at last achieved the mass appeal she desired when she used a clearer, more direct voice” in The Autobiography of Alice B...
Sotomayor Out Wth 2 New Books WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor got some unsolicited health advice the last time she wrote a book. The justice was diagnosed with diabetes as a child and discussed it as part of her 2013 autobiography. That prompted a grandmother to ...
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Winner of nine Emmy Awards, this 1974 drama became one of the most acclaimed TV movies ever, withCicely Tysonstarring as a woman born into slavery in the 1850s who lived to be more than 100 years old and witness the beginnings of the Civil Rights mo...
dear by individual responsibility and ambition. There is a sweet self-mockery, an almost nostalgic good humor intrinsic to “Three Years,” perhaps because “no one will blame me if I say/only what I say” in this diary-like form, given “the sudden turn in autobiography/one can’t ...
This is an autobiography of a girl growing into womanhood in a harsh environment, where she battled to survive obstacles in an insane world. To Love in Spite of It All: Familiar Twin Souls Strangers Iris Aguila. Nielsen. $9.02 paper (182p), ISBN 978-1-916214-60-6; $1.22 e-boo...
Autobiography(Eastwood’s research on human nature led him to believe that consciousness is altruistic, but the government had a problem with that concept) “I had to fight some of the most powerful people in the world just to stay alive.Then I had to write 30 books and 500 articles withou...