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0399252517. Brown Girl Dreaming is a 2014 adolescent verse memoir written by Jacqueline Woodson. [1] It tells the story of the author’s early childhood life growing up as an African American girl in the 1960’s and depicts the events that led her to become a writer. The book has been considered one of the exemplary pieces of modern children ...
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books is a book by Iranian author and professor Azar Nafisi. Published in 2003, it was on the New York Times bestseller list for over one hundred weeks and has been translated into 32 languages.
Other books written by her as a teenager are: The Lampo Circus (2008), Von Gobstopper's Arcade (2009), Halo (2010) and Hades (2011). Margery Allingham (1904–1966) had her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, about smugglers in 17th century Essex, published in 1923, when she was 19. Jorge Amado (1912–2001) had his debut novel, The Country of ...
What is the six-word memoir, exactly? It’s a story told in only six words, of course! This activity requires writers to boil a story down to its core, then summarize it in half a dozen words ...
We rounded up 10 of the funniest memoirs and biographies by the world's best comedians, from Steve Martin to Leslie Jones to Ali Wong. If you love a good laugh, add these to your reading list.
Followed by. Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel. The Glass Castle is a 2005 memoir by American author Jeannette Walls. Walls recounts her dysfunctional and nomadic yet vibrant upbringing, emphasizing her resilience and her father's attempts toward redemption. Despite her family's flaws, their love for each other and her unique perspective on ...
Intermezzo, by Sally Rooney. Brothers Peter and Ivan aren’t close. Ivan is a 22-year-old chess prodigy, brace-faced and bashful. Peter is a self-medicating, charismatic lawyer in his mid-30s ...
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a 2007 memoir written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone. The book is a firsthand account of Beah's time as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone Civil War in the 1990s. [1] The book describes the change from Beah being an innocent child to being corrupted by war and its effects.