After the great success of his memoir Stop-Time in the late '70s, writer-jazz pianist-teacher Frank Conroy produced only one slim collection of stories.
Frank Conroy, the author of the classic memoir "Stop-Time," succeeded so well at capturing "the attenuated agonies of growing up" that he justified the book's title.
PAGE B11 Frank Conroy Is Dead The author of the classic memoir "Stop-Time," a model for generations of young writers, died at 69.
In his 1967 memoir, "Stop-Time," Frank Conroy describes his initiation into literature as an adolescent on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
In his 1967 memoir "Stop-Time," Frank Conroy ends a paean to youthful reading with the following: "It was around this time that I first thought of becoming a writer.
Gordievsky has told the story of his own improbable survival in a gripping 1995 memoir, Next Stop Execution.
He was a kid searching for answers and a place who had made some mistakes". After arriving in New York, Mr. Obama wrote in his memoir, he stopped getting high.
In her new memoir, "Next Stop: A Son With Autism Grows Up," the Washington, D.C., writer Glen Finland transforms her worry into a practical strategy as well as an engaging story.
William S. Burroughs was grumbling about the tendency of writers to withhold the goods when he quipped that Paul Bowles's memoir "Without Stopping" would have been more accurately titled "Without Telling".
There has been speculation that the acrimony that crept into their relationship towards the end of their time in office, and afterwards when Darling published his memoirs, has stopped Brown – whose standing with voters is much higher in Scotland than in the rest of the UK – from playing a role until now.
