Memoir News
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Tel Aviv -
Professor Ziva Bakman-Flamhaft is back with her new book, "War Widow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life A Memoir," and it is very compelling.
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While the legends of Rock and Roll certainly have had their turn at telling their story, it's interesting to learn about the contemporaries that followed after them.
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Toronto -
Reading from her memoir for the first time and answering questions, Lena Dunham, the creator and star of the HBO hit show Girls, shared her charming humour, candid insight into gender issues and why she feels like she's visiting Hollywood still.
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"Falling Into Place" is a memoir about how finding faith in a higher power and oneself can bring out inner strength and peace. Hattie Kauffman’s trials become lessons of perseverance and hope for all of us.
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Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston is set to reveal all in an upcoming memoir. The untitled book, scheduled for release in the Fall, 2015, is reportedly set to spill the beans on a number of secrets.
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San Diego -
'Anchorman' Ron Burgundy, the alter-ego of comedic actor Will Ferrell, is set to release his memoir this November titled "Let Me Off At The Top: My Classy Life and Other Musings."
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Toronto -
“Toronto's been a fantastically important city for me in my life,” rock legend Pete Townshend told a crowd of dozens of fans earlier tonight at the Indigo bookstore at Bay and Bloor. “For the Who, it's always been an incredibly important venue.”
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Salman Rushdie's memoir opens with the moment he became aware that he had been sentenced to death and it ends with the moment he realised he would write the novel that would be the catalyst for the fatwa.
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Who should tell the story is the most important decision any storyteller ever makes. And the options are very limited: third person, first person or second person. When the author gets it right, even a poor tale works. But when the author gets it wrong...
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Baker City -
On July 13, the 2012 Oregon Book Awards Author Tour brought two poets and two nonfiction writers to Baker City, Oregon for an evening of readings and conversation.
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Baker City -
Oregonian memoirist Jennifer Lauck is a professional writer who loves to create scenes and draw attention to her work, whether it is teaching a class or writing her next bestseller.
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In his first public appearance since April 2011, former President Fidel Castro of Cuba spent six hours Friday presenting Part I of his 1000 page two-volume memoir at a book launch.
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San Francisco -
While the latest memoirs of the famous First Lady has received some criticism upon its release, Jackie Kennedy Onasis seems to remain the woman who as First Lady had the most powerful and dramatic impact upon the White House.
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Houston -
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Astronaut and Shuttle Commander Captain Mark Kelly, have made two major announcements this week, including a memoir the pair are working on and Kelly's retirement from NASA and the United States Navy.
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Washington -
US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor reported she had received almost $1.2 million last year as an advance for writing a memoir, according to an annual disclosure filing detailing financial activities released on Friday
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The 40-year-old hiphop star will mix autobiography with interviews of family and friends in the book, called Decoded. It will be released Nov. 16.
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New York -
Demi Moore, one of the generational group of actors known as the Hollywood Brat Pack, has signed a deal with publisher Harper Collins for a lifelong memoir rumured to be worth over $2 million.
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Former First Lady Laura Bush has spoken for the first time about causing a car crash in which a high school friend was killed.
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Toronto -
Previously, several publishers, authors and would-be ghostwriters have asked to write and publish a book about politically engaged musician Bruce Cockburn, but he's now decided to write such a book himself, adding author to his list of accomplishments.
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Not set to officially land on bookstore shelves until Tuesday, Sarah Palin's memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life" is already creating a flurry of discussion.
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The highly anticipated 432-page memoir by former Governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, rose to No. 1 on the Barnes and Nobles' website. But it has not even been released yet.
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Former Vice-President Dick Cheney is writing his memoir, which reportedly includes a criticism of George W. Bush for his actions during his second term in office.
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A man who has been called such names as Darth Vader, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney will be releasing his own memoir in Spring 2011. His daugther, Liz Cheney, gives her insights on the book.
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Threshold Editions, a division of Simon and Schuster has signed a book deal with former Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney's memoir is due to be released a few months after President George W. Bush's is due to hit the stores.
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Gov. Sarah Palin has chosen Lynn Vincent, the features editor of a conservative biweekly, to co-author her memoirs. She is also currently in the news for vetoing $28 million in federal stimulus money.
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A former concentration camp victim, who penned a memoir that was to have been published in February about his experience during the Holocaust, has admitted he "embellished" the tale, and the book has been cancelled.
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She may have been the beloved Marcia Brady but Maureen McCormick's real life has been nothing like a fun loving sitcom. McCormick has just penned her memoir about the dark side of being Marcia.
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Lance Bass is writing an autobiography that is due out in October.
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My siblings and I in Yemen, circa 1993.
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"My Song - A Memoir" by Harry Belafonte with Michael Shnayerson, published by Alfred A. Knopf - division of Random House, (2011).
"Jeannie Out of The Bottle" is a memoir and autobiography of Barbara Eden.
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