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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 ]
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.
[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.
Scrappy Little Nobody is a 2016 memoir by Anna Kendrick, comprising "a collection of autobiographical essays". [2] An audiobook read by Kendrick was released along with the book. Kendrick said of the book: "My goals for this book were to make people laugh, to feel connected to people, and maybe get people to feel more connected to me."
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.
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.
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.
In "Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021" (published by St. Martin's Press), former German Chancellor Angela Merkel writes about two lives: her early years growing up under a Communist-controlled police ...