Memoir & Biography

ISBN: 9780819580283
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books
A memoir about disability and siblinghood that is honest and hilarious.

Nothing Special is a disarming tale of two sisters growing up in the 1970s in suburban Connecticut. Older sister Chris, who has Down's Syndrome, is an extrovert with ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966777
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Russian and East European Studies
This is the story of a man who tried to resurrect the spirit of democratic life. He was born into a time of chaos and absurdity, and he took it as his fate to carry a candle into the night. This is his story and the story of many others, the write... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781913701420
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements
Volume: 44
This monograph uses the life and work of ground-breaking female classicist, Wilmer Cave Wright, to examine several questions about the rise of women in that discipline. First, what went into the creation of a classics scholar under circumstances t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780813196497
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897–1936) was among the world's most recognisable actors during the silent era. He was a wild, swashbuckling figure on screen and off, and accounts of his life have focused on his high-profile roma... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780813183756
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Until I was nine or ten, everyone called me Joe or Joe Hall. Then one day, my grandmother, for reasons known only to her, pulled me aside, telling me my name was "too short and too plain." She said, "Let's add your middle initial to make it more i... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966746
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize
Winner of the 2020 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Exploring what it means to be human through the Korean diaspora, Caroline Kim’s stories feature many voices. From a teenage girl in 1980’s America, to a boy growing up in the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781922454430
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
Michael Wilding’s essays on Marcus Clarke's life and works, from his schooldays at Highgate with Gerard Manley Hopkins to membership of the Melbourne Bohemian Yorick Club with Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall, and his associations with the Ch... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780813153735
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Frances Peter was one of the eleven children of Dr. Robert Peter, a surgeon for the Union army. The Peter family lived on Gratz Park near downtown Lexington, where nineteen-year-old Frances began recording her impressions of the Civil War. Because... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789464260328
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Honor Frost Foundation General Publication
Volume: 2
The ocean conceals secrets, ancient, modern, and future. Nic Flemming's memoir recounts the life of a pioneer in ocean science. Each chapter describes a thread that structured his work: underwater cities, submerged Ice Age caverns dripping with st... .... Learn More