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Stitching Freedom Is Gary Tyler's Memoir of 41 Years in Angola Prison, Where He Learned the Quilting Now Shown in Museums
Sent to death row at 17 after a trial a federal court later called fundamentally unfair, Gary Tyler wrote his story with Ellen Bravo. His quilts are on show in Michigan until 3rd January.
Richard E Grant Has Written Four Books, and the Memoir of His Wife's Last Year Is the One to Read First
As The Celebrity Traitors brings him a new audience, a guide to his two film diaries, his Hollywood novel and A Pocketful of Happiness, and the order to read them in.
Pride and Pleasure Won the 2026 Pulitzer for Biography by Bringing the Schuyler Sisters Out of Hamilton's Shadow
Amanda Vaill gives Angelica and Eliza Schuyler the full biography Broadway only hinted at, and tells their story in the present tense.
Tom LeNoble, Who Joined Facebook at 50, on How to Reinvent Yourself
The former head of customer service at MCI, Walmart.com and Palm now advises founders and executives on changes of direction, and his memoir has won seven book awards, including a 2026 NYC Big Book Award.
Hanns Scharff's Son Chris Scharff Traces His Family's Path From Wartime Germany to Africa and America in WWII Memoir
Born in Greiz in 1936, the Carlsbad author spent 20 years in South Africa and Rhodesia before joining his father in Los Angeles, and in retirement met one of the American pilots his father had interrogated.
Beautifully Unbroken Review: The Shower Shirt Inventor's Breast Cancer Memoir Begins with the Loss of Her Mother
The medical journalist who patented The Shower Shirt after her own mastectomy tells the story behind it, and the story of the mother she lost two weeks after her wedding, in a memoir that will be of most use to a woman with surgery ahead of her.
Swan Song: Earl Spencer Tells His Sister's Story
A preview of Charles Spencer's forthcoming memoir Swan Song, Diana, My Sister, published this September ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of her death.
Mahvash Sabet Wrote Her Prison Memoir From a Solitary Cell
Recognized abroad with a share of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize, the Iranian Baha'i poet finished one ten-year term only to be sentenced to another, and remains at risk today.
Great and Unfortunate Things: The Memoir Jason Arday Leaves Behind
What Jason Arday's memoir Great and Unfortunate Things tells, and how critics have received it, following his death days after its US publication.
Lisa F. Crites Turns Her Own Cancer Recovery Into a Patented Invention and a New Memoir, Beautifully Unbroken
The medical journalist behind The Shower Shirt™, the first patented water-resistant garment for chest surgery patients, tells how the sudden loss of her mother, a breast cancer diagnosis, and a book deal she turned down twice became an Amazon Best Seller, with proceeds pledged to breast cancer support groups.
In Conversation With Francis Fukuyama on the Last Man He Once Declared Triumphant
In 1989, a young political scientist announced that history itself had reached its destination. On 2 September, at the London School of Economics, Francis Fukuyama returns to ask what he got right, what he got wrong and what thirty-seven years have done to that argument. He discusses his new memoir In the Realm of the Last Man at the London School of Economics on 2 September 2026. Here is what to expect.
Five Years in Venezuelan Custody, and the Memoir a Citgo Executive Made of Them
Jorge L. Toledo was vice president of supply and marketing at Citgo when armed agents arrested him at a meeting in Caracas in November 2017, and the title of the book he published last August is a literal count of the days that followed.