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My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy is an autobiography written by Nancy Cartwright. First published in September 2000 by Hyperion , it details Cartwright's career, particularly her experiences as the voice of Bart Simpson on The Simpsons and contains insights on the show, diary entries and anecdotes about her encounters with various guest stars.
Fatty Legs is a memoir aimed at middle-grade children, written by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton and illustrated by Liz Amini-Holmes, published September 1, 2010 by Annick Press. The story is about the residential school system, a system focused on the assimilation of Indigenous peoples. [1] [2]
Kirkus called her second memoir, Catastrophic Happiness: Finding Joy in Childhood's Messy Years (Little, Brown & Co., 2016), "an overly sentimental book". [10] Her adult fiction debut was We All Want Impossible Things (Harper, 2022). [11] It tells the story of two longtime friends as one of them is dying of ovarian cancer.
We rounded up 10 of the funniest memoirs and biographies by the world's best comedians, from Steve Martin to Leslie Jones to Ali Wong. If you love a good laugh, add these to your reading list.
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era, often referred to as Rascal, is a 1963 children's book by Sterling North about his childhood in Wisconsin, illustrated by John Schoenherr. Publication [ edit ]
[2] John Buchan (1875–1940) wrote Sir Quixote of the Moors (1895) when he was 19 and an undergraduate at the University of Glasgow. Celeste and Carmel Buckingham wrote The Lost Princess when they were 11 and 9. Flavia Bujor (born 8 August 1988) wrote The Prophecy of the Stones (2002) when she was 13.
In Source Code: My Beginnings – the first instalment in a planned memoir trilogy – he looks back on his early years, from his birth in Seattle to the foundation of Microsoft in the 1970s.
The author of a memoir may be referred to as a memoirist. Some memoirs may be less structured and less encompassing than formal autobiographical works. They may be about part of a life rather than the chronological telling of a life from childhood to adulthood/old age. Traditional memoirs dealt with public matters, rather than personal.