Category: Memoir/Biography

April 24, 2015

March: Books 1 and 2 by John Lewis **** (of 4)

These graphical biographies cover the early years of John Lewis, now a congressman, but formerly a preacher and activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Book one...

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April 14, 2015

Mary Coin by Marissa Walter *** (of 4)

On the surface this is a fictionalized account of two women who made one another famous during The Great Depression: Dorothea Lange, a government employed...

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January 25, 2015

52 Loaves by William Alexander *** (of 4)

52 Loaves is one of those memoirs where a guy sets out to do something a little ridiculous, bumbles along, has silly adventures, and learns...

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January 5, 2015

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast **** (of 4)

It’s a cartoon memoir of the passing of Roz Chast’s, a New Yorker cartoonist, parents. Her parents lived into their 90s and died the long,...

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October 28, 2014

Agent Zigzag by Ben McIntyre *** (of 4)

Prior to the outbreak of WWII, the British citizen Eddie Chapman spent his youth blowing safes and robbing banks. Passing in and out of jails, Chapman...

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July 13, 2014

Thank you for your Service by David Finkel **** (of 4)

The war after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq consists of 500,000 broken soldiers, men and women returned to the United States suffering from PTSD...

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April 16, 2014

Still Foolin’ ‘Em by Billie Crystal *** (of 4)

Billy Crystal is turning 65 years old and writing his memoir. It’s one-third stand-up (far and away the best part), one-third autobiography, and one-third Hollywood...

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February 23, 2014

We Need New Names by Noviolet Buluwayo *** (of 4)

A young girl growing up in the disintegrating country of Mugabe’s Zimbabwe escapes by moving in with her aunt in Detroit, Michigan. Her account is...

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January 9, 2014

Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman *** (of 4)

It’s hard being female in a Hasidic community. It’s impossible to question authority in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, inside the dense community of Satmar Hasids. If, however,...

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January 4, 2014

This is the Story of a Happy Marriage ** (of 4) by Ann Patchett

This is a collection of Patchett’s non-fiction essays, all previously published. Well-written, autobiographical, unresearched, and self-aggrandizing. Patchett is not only a strong writer, but she...

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