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Category Archives: Autobiography
Kindergarten at 60 by Dian Seidel
A great book, describing Seidel’s experience teaching English to students in Thailand – in a kindergarten! Cultural, frank and real.
The Gosling Bride by Eileen Williams
A stimulating, thoughtful memoir about a young girl who enters a controversial church at its height and how this shaped her life and faith
Muzungu by Rod Madocks
A reflection on a childhood in Africa at the end of empire and how that has inexorably shaped the author into the man he was and is now
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The book that begins Maya Angelou’s memoir is full of her experiences at a young age of what is wrong with the world but also, what is right
Skinny Dipping in a Dirty Pond by Lis Anna-Langston
One line cannot do this story justice – a tale of a young girl in a life that no young girl should ever encounter.
Mountain Song by Lucy Fuggle
A book detailing an era of the author’s life spent living in the Swiss Alps but also one full of meaning and philosophy, based on experience
Prepare for Departure: Notes on a single mother, a misfit son, inevitable mortality and the enduring allure of frequent flyer miles by Mark Chesnut
A touching and funny memoir by the author about his relationship with his mother and their lives together
What I Was Listening To When…A Memoir Set To Music by Jack L. B. Gohn
Jack Gohn’s stimulating and candid memoir illustrates how all autobiographical works should be structured for ultimate enjoyment- to music
The Backpack Years by Stefanie and James Wilson
The Wilsons, through their tandem memoirs, take their reader on an achingly candid and emotional tour of their youthful travel experiences