Frank Conroy is, for several generations of readers, writers and teachers of autobiography and memoir, the author of "Stop-Time".
In this elegantly crafted memoir, the author sets out to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish that she learn about her heritage.
In this remarkable coming-of-age memoir, the author describes fiction as his refuge from the confusing realities of politics and adolescence in his native Kenya.
The book's true nature, however, is that of an unabashed memoir, the author's first, and it opens with Ryszard, age 19, studying Greek history at Warsaw University.
In this memoir, the author chronicles her relentless quest for religious fulfillment, which leads her from a voodoo shrine in Louisiana to a Presbyterian church in Brooklyn.
In this epistolary memoir, the author — a Colombian artist who died in 2003 and was little known in her lifetime — recalls her childhood.
Red Carpets and Banana Skins by Rupert Everett Little, Brown £18.99, pp416 In one episode from Rupert Everett's memoir, the author and a friend stay up all night brainstorming.
Though the first half of "Positively American" is presented as a political memoir, its author admits to fewer personality flaws than, say, St. Francis of Assisi had.
In this elegiac memoir, the author, a reporter, applies the same investigative skills that led to her exposés of the tobacco industry and Enron to a more intimate subject: her contentious relationship with her late brother, Carl.
