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1 day ago · Courtesy of Ken Smith. In Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia, a rich noblewoman named Lady Croom is having the grounds of her estate redone by the 1809 version of a trendy landscape architect. He wants ...
4 days ago · The most recent celebrity to have her own memoir is none other than the icon Barbra Streisand! In My Name Is Barbra, the singer and actress looks back at her upbringing in Brooklyn, her rise to ...
4 days ago · Maya Angelou (/ ˈ æ n dʒ ə l oʊ / ⓘ AN-jə-loh; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist.She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years.
4 days ago · The difference is that a memoir has lessons and an overall theme or message tied to the stories while an autobiography is a chronological account of your life. You can read this article to learn how to write an autobiography, more specifically.
6 days ago · An Autobiography: 1883 Walt Whitman: Specimen Days: 1883 Leo Tolstoy: A Confession: 1884 John Ruskin: Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life: 1885 Oscar Wilde: De Profundis: 1897 Margaret Oliphant: The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant: 1899 George Bernard Shaw: Shaw: an Autobiography, 1898–1950 ...
5 days ago · Find your next biographies & memoirs read. Walk a mile in someone else’s shoes: and for a brief moment, share in their joy and feel their pain. This is the power that great memoirs have over us. But if you can’t stomach yet another celebrity tell-all, then you might be ready for fresh blood! Let the reviewers at Reedsy Discovery introduce ...
3 days ago · Me and Mr Jones by Suzi Ronson. In 1971, Suzi Ronson (then Suzanne Fussey) was a 21-year-old hairdresser at a salon in Beckenham, southeast London, when one of her customers – Mrs Jones ...
