Sentence examples for memoir boy from inspiring English sources

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Harald Dahl was so "overwhelmed with grief," Dahl writes in his 1984 memoir, "Boy," that he had no strength to fight a bout of pneumonia; he died two months later.

Published for World Book Day, the story – itself an extract from Dahl's childhood memoir, Boy – tells of the author and his friends deciding to teach Mrs Pratchett a lesson when they find a dead mouse under a floorboard at school.

Lewis Nordan, no stranger to extravagance, looks back on his own colorful Mississippi Delta boyhood -- and the drearier adulthood that followed -- in his searching yet droll memoir, "Boy With Loaded Gun".

Kristina Olsson is the author of two novels, In One Skin and the award-winning The China Garden, the biography Kilroy Was Here, and a recently released memoir, Boy, Lost, which recounts the theft of her mother's first child.

Mr. Nordan, who did not begin writing until he was in his mid-30s and did not publish his first book until he was in his mid-40s, was the author of four novels, three volumes of short stories and a memoir, "Boy With Loaded Gun" (2000).

Whereas Wright was the author of several outstanding books, including the novel Native Son and the memoir Black Boy, the story of his gruelling Mississippi childhood, Baldwin was practically unpublished.

Her next biography, "Richard Wright: The Life and Times" (2001), was about the American writer whose fiction (including the novel "Native Son") and nonfiction (including the memoir "Black Boy") look unflinchingly at the experience of black manhood.

His memoir, This Boy, is out in paperback from Corgi.

"It looked like no congregation anyone had ever seen before," Mr. Laurie wrote in his 2008 memoir, "Lost Boy".

"This is the saddest book I have read," wrote John Rentoul in the Independent of Alan Johnson's "beautifully written" memoir This Boy.