In the poignant memoir "Darling Days," Wright, an artist, activist, former child actor and a co-host of the MTV reality series "Suspect," delves into his tumultuous upbringing and struggles with identity.
Manning's spare plea for leniency came after hours of testimony -- from a psychologist and a psychiatrist who had examined him, as well as from his sister, Casey Major Manning -- establishing his difficult upbringing and struggles with gender identity.
Despite his comfortable upbringing Grant struggled on re-entering Australian civilian life.
Still deeply affected by his fundamentalist upbringing, he struggled with the moral free-for-all that money and attention brought.
She recently published a book of memoirs, "A Fighting Chance", linking her upbringing by struggling middle-class parents with her political views (eg, tougher policing of Wall Street, a higher minimum wage, expanded Social Security benefits, cheaper loans for college students, a rollback of Republican curbs on union organising and collective bargaining).
"Everyday Rapture," which Ms. Scott, above, wrote with Dick Scanlan and in which she plays a semi-fictionalized version of herself grappling with a "half-Mennonite" upbringing and struggling to break into New York theater, was widely acclaimed when it ran last year at Second Stage Theater.
Despite a "fantastic upbringing," Conor struggled with his mental wellbeing as a child.
If you've seen Christie's show then the material here will be familiar although, stitched together with tales of her Irish Catholic upbringing and her struggles in stand-up, the narrative is fluent rather than episodic.
Coombs' sentencing pitch to Lind for lenience was filled with references to Manning's difficult upbringing and his struggles within the Army as someone considering transitioning genders.
They ignore who he is as a person". Coombs' sentencing pitch to Lind for lenience was filled with references to Manning's difficult upbringing and his struggles within the Army as someone considering transitioning genders.
In England she was set apart too, as much by her exotic upbringing and her struggle to bring up her two daughters after a difficult divorce from her "boxwallah" husband (the boxwallahs were travelling pedlar merchants who carried their wares in boxes), as by her beady cleverness and intense involvement in her work.
