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Mary Luana Williams (born October 13, 1967) is an American social activist and author who wrote The Lost Daughter: A Memoir about her life. The memoir details being adopted by Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden in her adolescence, as well as growing up as a daughter of Black Panthers before Fonda adopted her.
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a 2007 memoir written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone. The book is a firsthand account of Beah's time as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone Civil War in the 1990s. [1] The book describes the change from Beah being an innocent child to being corrupted by war and its effects.
David James Pelzer (born December 29, 1960) [1] is an American author of several autobiographical and self-help books. [2] His 1995 memoir of childhood abuse, A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive, was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for several years, and in 5 years had sold at least 1.6 million copies. [3]
Considering its darkly provocative title, it makes sense that Jennette McCurdy’s upcoming book “I’m Glad My Mom Died” made headlines when it was first announced. And now, since becoming ...
Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (2005) is a memoir written by a Cambodian-born American woman, Loung Ung. Her previous memoir was First They Killed My Father. The memoir chronicles her adjustment to life in the U.S. after escaping the Cambodian genocide.
A sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-nominated A Child Called It, in 2002 The New York Times Magazine reported that The Lost Boy had spent 160 weeks on its bestseller list for non-fiction paperbacks. [ 2 ] The book discusses Pelzer's defiant, rebellious behavior as he struggles to adapt to foster care, living in five different foster homes and in ...
Moon Unit Zappa's memoir is a self-portrait of an insecure and often confused child, worshipful of her absent father, Frank Zappa, and thirsty for maternal affection.
The Story of the Lost Child (Italian: Storia della bambina perduta) is a 2014 novel written by Italian author Elena Ferrante. It is the fourth and final installment of her Neapolitan Novels, preceded by My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, and Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay. It was translated into English by Ann Goldstein in 2015.