Memoirs

The Man With The Golden Voice: Going From Homeless To Famous

Posted 05.18.2012

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The following is excerpted from Ted Williams's memoir (co-written with Bret Witter) "The Golden Voice." The book recounts Williams's youth, his battle...

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"You Picked The Wrong Girl": How One Woman Took Back Her Life

The Huffington Post | Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Jennifer Gilbert, Video, Memoirs, Books We Love, Fearlessness, I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag, Alopecia, Becoming-Fearless, Save the Date, Event Planning, Women News

At 22, Jennifer Gilbert was attacked in the hallway of a New York City apartment building and stabbed multiple times. She survived, told very few peop...

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I Could Write a Book About My Book Ordeal!

Dave Astor | Posted 05.10.2012

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Dave Astor

Celebrity entertainers and politicians have no problem getting their memoirs published. So a book partly about celebrity entertainers and politicians should have had no problem getting published, right?

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Why I Wrote My First Memoir, Along the Way, With a Guy Named Martin Sheen

Emilio Estevez | Posted 05.04.2012

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Emilio Estevez

What could you possibly glean from a book about two men who've been in the public eye for over fifty years, where everything there is to know about them can be uncovered by the click of keyboard? Well, it turns out, plenty.

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Six Words for the Planet

Larry Smith | Posted 04.26.2012

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Larry Smith

Earth Day approaches on April 22 and I wanted to share some of the Six Words for the Planet that have been coming in since we launched a new Six-Word ...

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Cyndi Lauper Memoir Coming Soon

AP | Posted 04.09.2012

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NEW YORK — Cyndi Lauper swears her book will show her true colors. The award-winning performer has a memoir coming out this fall, Atria Books a...

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Jackie O's Chilling Reaction To JFK's Assassination

Zoë Triska | Posted 04.05.2012

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In Clint Hill's new book, 'Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir,' Hill reveals gruesome details of the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Th...

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Book Review: Girl Walks Into a Bar or What Happened to Rachel Dratch?

Sheila Moeschen | Posted 04.04.2012

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Sheila Moeschen

What ultimately makes Girl Walks Into a Bar pertinent is Dratch's willingness to dwell in and accept messy ambiguity. Dratch is every woman.

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How I Happened to Write My Memoirs

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Autobiography, Working for Peace and Justice: Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual, Memoirs, Vietnam War Memoirs, Academia, Civil Rights Movement Memoirs, Memoirs of an Activist, Lawrence Wittner, Historian Lawrence Wittner, Books News
Lawrence Wittner

My recently-published autobiography, Working for Peace and Justice: Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual, highlights the connection between intellectual and political activity.

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Addiction Envy

Leah Odze Epstein | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Addiction, Memoirs, Writing, Books, Alcoholism, Koren Zailckas, Smashed, Envy, The Fix, Maer Roshan, Susan Shapiro, Unhooked, Women News
Leah Odze Epstein

I started thinking these writers were like certain girls in high school -- the edgy, risky girls. The girls who did things I'd never do and had experiences I'd never have.

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Writing Is My Business and So Is Publicity

Lev Raphael | Posted 05.07.2012

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Lev Raphael

Doing publicity takes time away from writing, but without it, the writing you do doesn't get out there. If you're lucky, the PR can be fun.

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Justin Bieber's Mom To Publish Memoir

AP | Posted 03.06.2012

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TORONTO -- Pop star Justin Bieber's mom has inked a book deal to tell the story of the role she played in her son's rise to superstardom. Pattie Mall...

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"I Hope My Suffering Was Not In Vain"

Esther Joseph | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Depression, Child Abuse, Abuse, Memoirs, Author, Alcoholism, Suicide, Prayer, Domestic Abuse, Books News
Esther Joseph

Just laying there, all I wanted was for the pain to stop. I was convinced dying was my only way out. My hope is that, by offering a voice and a face to the cause of ending abuse, my own suffering was not in vain.

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Author: Writing My Book Almost Killed Me

Sara Benincasa | Posted 04.15.2012

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Sara Benincasa

Originally published by Bookish: When I was younger, I thought the average memoirist must have it easy. After all, her only duty was to report what h...

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Say What? You Talking About Me?

David Isenberg | Posted 03.18.2012

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David Isenberg

In the modern private security contractor industry, some Brits have been quite outspoken in chronicling what they see as their superior professionalism, compared to their American counterparts.

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Lil Wayne's Surprising New Project

AP | Posted 03.13.2012

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NEW YORK — Lil Wayne is offering a literary tour of his prison days. The million-selling rapper has signed with Grand Central Publishing, a div...

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Author, Former Child Abuse Victim: "I Wrote To Bury My Pain"

George Molho | Posted 03.04.2012

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George Molho

In 1978, at the age of 7, I was kidnapped and tortured for a year. I began writing a long letter to my soon-to-be ex-wife, and became besieged by submerged memories. I felt so much that I felt nothing. So, I put pen to paper and came alive.

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10 Rock Star Bios You Shouldn't Bother Reading

Brian Boone | Posted 02.25.2012

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Brian Boone

Every few months, a big rock star biography or memoir comes out. The pre-release buzz is always major, promising, finally, the truth about that musical icon we all thought we knew. Rarely does that truth happen, though.

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The Real Secret Is You

Irving Belateche | Posted 02.14.2012

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Irving Belateche

For me the most powerful motivational books are those where someone takes you through their own personal journey, whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

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My Start in Television

Norman Lear | Posted 02.12.2012

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Norman Lear

My writing partner Ed Simmons and I were living in L.A. with our families in the summer of 1950, selling living room furniture door to door to support ourselves while trying to break into show business.

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Author Louise Nayer Chats About Winning the Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award for Burned, A Memoir

Susan Dormady Eisenberg | Posted 02.11.2012

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Susan Dormady Eisenberg

When Louise Nayer was four in 1954, she and her parents and her six-year-old sister Anne took their first family vacation. Tragedy soon struck when Nayer's father and mother tried to light a gas water heater that exploded.

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We The Animals: Novel Of The Year?

Richard B. Woodward | Posted 02.07.2012

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Richard B. Woodward

Novels and memoirs about the damages of childhood beg to become tear-jerking orgies. What kept me reading was Torres' dry-eyed control over his material. Edited with obsessive care, he hasn't allowed that to happen.

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How to Have a Perfect Book Tour

Lev Raphael | Posted 01.31.2012

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Lev Raphael

Authors often feel like DHL parcels on a book tour, delivered from one venue to another. Small things can feel like big problems. So how do you maintain control?

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Publishing's Renewed Holiday Push With Memoirs, an Enduring Genre

David Tereshchuk | Posted 01.22.2012

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David Tereshchuk

The publishing industry has now fully readied itself for the holidays, with offerings that include yet more aggressively-promoted slices of first-person recollection.

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Writer for Hire

Holly Robinson | Posted 01.20.2012

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Holly Robinson

"Doesn't it bug you to write other people's books when you could be working on your own?" another writer asked me recently. Not a bit. In fact, I love telling other people's stories.

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