Sentence examples for memoir rocket from inspiring English sources

"Parents tell me their kids don't do much of it, mainly because they make sure their kids' days are fully scheduled from breakfast to lights-out," said Homer Hickam, whose best-selling memoir, "Rocket Boys" (Delacorte, 1998), recounted his youthful adventures exploring rocketry in a West Virginia coal town in the Sputnik era.

According to Homer Hickam's memoir, Rocket Boys, and its movie production, October Sky, the early rockets he and his friends built were ironically named "Auk".

The proposed idea of protecting lunar landing sites with national parks on the moonhas caught the ear of Homer Hickam, former NASA engineer and best-selling author of the memoir "Rocket Boys," later adapted into the popular film "October Sky".

"It's difficult to think of any major event in the Soviet space program that he didn't contribute to," said Asif Siddiqi, a history professor at Fordham University and the chief translator of Mr. Chertok's four-volume memoir, "Rockets and People," published between 2004 and this year.

They are trying to finish their memoirs, Rockets and Dictators, by the end of the year.

He used his departure from the Onion to write and publicize How to Be Black, a book of essays that blended wit and memoir and rocketed him to another level of notoriety.

Understanding the triumph of the kill memoir is not rocket science.

Meanwhile, just as Rep. John Lewis' award-winning graphic memoir series March rocketed up the Amazon charts and sold out on the site after the civil rights icon sparred with Trump earlier this month, classic works of fiction and nonfiction that depict oppressive regimes have taken up residence at the top of Amazon's best-seller list.

Rocket Boys: A Memoir By Homer H. Hickam Jr. Delta, $12.95.

It's probably because my childhood sports heroes were Roger Clemens and Wade Boggs in their Red Sox years that I don't read a lot of athlete's memoirs (a wise decision, considering the Rocket's unfortunate e-mails).

By Jenna Krajeski August 28, 2008 It's probably because my childhood sports heroes were Roger Clemens and Wade Boggs in their Red Sox years that I don't read a lot of athlete's memoirs (a wise decision, considering the Rocket's unfortunate e-mails).