…George M. Johnson Journalist and activist George M. Johnson’s YA memoir-manifesto All Boys Aren’t Blue takes stories from his childhood, adolescence, and college years to show readers how they can…
…What’s already been written and collected? I focus on direct sources—letters, diaries, memoirs, interviews. This is where intimate, defining details are found. For example, while researching The Family Romanov, I…
…City of Thieves by David Benioff A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Water for Elephants by Sar Gruen…
…to London and was just 21 or 22 years old at the time. In his memoir, Charles Cowden Clarke recalls this evening fondly, writing that he and his friend sat…
…as pairing the Holocaust memoir Night with the movie Hotel Rwanda and the Time article “What Makes Us Moral” to move the discussion beyond a particular incident of disregard for…
…up? Can a memoir by Malcolm X or a novel by García Márquez save them from the daily blows? And what about those who have such learning problems they can’t…
…through creative pieces like those described in the chapter “The Magic of Memoir” or through analytical work, as discussed in “Making a Case for It,” students need to be given…
…One popular text by Albom is Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson. It went on to become one of the top selling memoirs…
…Autobiographies and memoirs provide an insight into a person’s life as well as into the person’s culture and history. This is evident in the collection of autobiographies edited by Ariel…
From Kylene Beers, NCTE President, 2008–2009 The books are award-winning and iconic: Front Desk (Kelly Yang); Child of the Dream: A Memoir of 1963 (Sharon Robinson); the Harry Potter series…
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