She was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
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It's true that Friedländer is not the most introspective memoirist.
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She was a memoirist, children's book author and public speaker.
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Before Anthony Bourdain was a TV host, he was a memoirist.
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Ms. Rosenthal was a children's book author, memoirist and public speaker.
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It's not often that a memoirist warns you about believing him.
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Ms. French talked through her menu, annotating it like a memoirist.
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One Archie Ferguson becomes a journalist, one a memoirist, one a novelist.
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And as a memoirist, even a reluctant one, she gets the final word.
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She is also a well-known poet and memoirist in her own right.
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Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, memoirist and graduate of Yale Law School.
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The really good memoirist can incorporate these losses of control into the picture.
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In her own way, she's always been a memoirist, chronicling her erotic exploits.
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Another early investor was Frank McCourt, the Irish-American schoolteacher turned best-selling memoirist.
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The collection features essays from Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy, and memoirist Amy Jo Burns.
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Dwayne Betts, is a poet, memoirist, and teacher and a 2010 Soros Justice Fellow.
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More than one memoirist remembered a relative going suddenly silent once the book arrived.
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A memoirist first, the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction in Babitz's writing are always elastic.
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His previous two marriages, one to the poet and memoirist Deborah Digges, ended in divorce.
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And PBS broadcasts its latest "American Masters" documentary, about the poet and memoirist Maya Angelou.
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Kim McLarin, the author of the 2007 essay, is a memoirist and critically acclaimed novelist.
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And before he was a memoirist — before Kitchen Confidential, before Medium Raw — he was an essayist.
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Hersh is not a political theorist, nor a literary memoirist, nor a paragon of journalistic behavior.
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More than any other White House memoirist, Rhodes is a creature of the man he served.
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Sanders should probably be watched more closely than just about every other memoirist in the game.
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And if you automatically knew the "Memoirist" at 25A, give yourself a pat on the back.
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Porochista Khakpour, a novelist and memoirist, said Mr. Dixon had been the reason she studied at Hopkins.
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A programmer, a memoirist, an essayist, a novelist, Ullman's a poet at a computer, whatever the medium.
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Her collaged pieces from the '80s record her working as a memoirist, but also, at times, an activist.
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Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen When the memoirist Dani Shapiro got her genealogy results from Ancestry.
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It's impossible for a memoirist to discover who she is when she's in the middle of her own story.
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Pico Iyer — globe-trotting journalist, memoirist and travel writer extraordinaire — first became enamored with Japan when he was 26.
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The poet and memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts was in prison when he discovered Clifton's work, thanks to another inmate.
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Summer Pages In 2012, the novelist and memoirist Alain Mabanckou won the Académie Française's grand prix for lifetime achievement.
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Below, she discusses how time in Indonesia helped her decide to tell this story, feeling like a "reluctant memoirist" and more.
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" Mr. Hollander incarnated the fumbling memoirist Henry Carr in Patrick Marber's seriously silly (or sillily serious) production of Mr. Stoppard's "Travesties.
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When an editor discovers James's story, book buyers applaud the budding memoirist, and he regales an appreciative street audience with song.
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The Girls Next Door reality star Holly Madison has created a second career as a gifted memoirist compared to Sylvia Plath.
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The Times, by giving a large platform to a small offense, has tainted the reputation of this accomplished editor, poet and memoirist.
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The Greenwich Village location has special significance for the 71-year-old Ms. Smith, the singer, poet, activist and best-selling memoirist.
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In December, Firoozeh Dumas, an Iranian-American memoirist who lives in Germany, repeatedly reported to Twitter at least four accounts impersonating hers.
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This article by Patricia Lockwood, the poet, memoirist and all-around interesting thinker, is kind of about an end of the internet.
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The author, Anna March, is a fiction writer and memoirist, and Ms. Moore stars in the NBC sob-fest "This Is Us."
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Books of The Times Daniel Mendelsohn is a classics scholar, a translator, a memoirist and a quick-witted literary and television critic.
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Likewise the memoirist occupies an intensely subjective world, while creating a template for, or version of, living in which objectivity is everything.
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In 2019 Michelle Obama became the bestselling memoirist of all time, and the audio version of Becoming was nominated for a Grammy.
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The novelist and memoirist Dani Shapiro's artful 2019 book, " Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity and Love " (Knopf), is one of them.
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The memoirist should be understood as representing all African-American men in the era of Jim Crow, or all indigenous people in Guatemala.
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Except, that is, in "The Kiss: Intimacies From Writers," edited by Brian Turner, himself an essayist, as well as a poet and memoirist.
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"You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind," the memoirist writes.
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From shortlists of eight writers, they chose to crown Olga Tokarczuk, a Polish novelist, and Peter Handke, an Austrian playwright, scriptwriter and memoirist.
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Ms. Glock, 48, a poet, memoirist, screenwriter and a senior staff writer for ESPN, is the daughter of a stoutly conservative Southern family.
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After Kate Walter, a memoirist and essayist, was accepted onto Westbeth's wait list in 1987, she tried to put it out of her mind.
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It is the job of a literary memoirist simply to write down her experiences with as much art and truth as she can muster.
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As a diagnostician, at least, Ms. Hoffman — a memoirist, novelist and former editor at The New York Times, now in her 70s — is shrewd.
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Jeffrey Thomson is a poet, a memoirist, a translator, an editor and an associate professor of English at the University of Maine at Farmington.
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The memoirist must have complete ownership of their own fate, to the extent that they can create the illusion of friendship with the reader.
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As in Charlie Kaufman's movie Adaptation, the narrator of The Complete Ballet places himself—a purported memoirist—inside a ready-made, appropriated work of art.
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Perhaps this is due to the contrast between her way with words and theirs, or between her talents as a memoirist and as a reporter.
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Michael is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and semi-successful memoirist now struggling to cement — or revive — his flagging career with a resistant, unfinished novel.
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It isn't that your anxieties are unwarranted — indeed, I've never met a memoirist who didn't grapple with some version of the question you've asked us.
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One of Bourdain's charms was that he was self-aware of the vanity required to be a memoirist and make shows about your own travels.
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A sister, Chris Chase, an actress, journalist, memoirist and co-author of autobiographical books about Rosalind Russell, Josephine Baker and Betty Ford, died in 2013.
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Increasingly since the 1980s, Ms. Tharp has become a memoirist, too — in writing, on TV (using film of her earlier work) and in live performance.
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It may help to calm readers (especially younger ones) to remember that Daum is not a policymaker but rather a lauded memoirist and personal essayist.
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She was a novelist and memoirist, penning books such as Postcards from the Edge, Wishful Drinking, and The Princess Diarist, for which Fisher just finished touring.
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Like Maggie Nelson—another adamant non-memoirist whose idiosyncratic personal writing is similarly worshiped by young women—Solnit gains her momentum from erudition rather than confession.
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In this chatty novel, an aspiring memoirist has a seemingly perfect life—the wife of a wealthy, adoring TV producer and mother of a cheerful toddler.
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Last month, chef, memoirist, and longtime VICE and VICELAND collaborator Eddie Huang delivered a powerful keynote address at the National Immigrant Integration Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
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He was a novelist, essayist, journalist, biographer, memoirist, teacher, translator and founder, with Bellow, of three literary magazines, most recently News From the Republic of Letters.
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To even reach this point, the memoirist must decide whether the complications are worth unraveling — or "unpacking," to use the woeful term du jour — at all.
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It was about three years ago when Kim Sunée, a memoirist and cookbook author, entered into an inventory-related texting relationship with some supermarket produce workers.
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"What a blast to be a part of something at its peak that now can be seen as a golden age," said another memoirist, Dana Brown.
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Just, who has been a newspaperman and a memoirist, as well as a novelist, may be as qualified to consider these questions as any American writer.
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Books of The Times Since 2010, when the brilliant Australian critic, poet and memoirist Clive James learned he had terminal leukemia, he's had his afterburners flipped on.
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The term before that it had been a memoirist whose own life had so preoccupied him that he never actually managed to attend one of their meetings.
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This month's guest comedians include the stand-up comic and SiriusXM host Dan Soder, the comic and sitcom writer Naomi Ekperigin, and the memoirist Amy Rose Spiegel.
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Memoirist and poet Mary Karr, whose name has long been saddled to that of her worshipped ex David Foster Wallace, is now tweeting that Wallace violently abused her.
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But they have nothing on the Iraq memories of "Stay Calm, Get Low," borrowed from memoirist Colby Buzzell, who liked Warren's adaptation so much he wrote liner notes.
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If Witt struggles at times as a memoirist, she succeeds as a meandering journalistic voyeur, one with a deeply empathetic and nuanced appreciation of sexual renegades and outcasts.
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Whoppers like these go unchallenged by reporters and scholars perhaps because of their memoirist first-person quality, stories told by the men who say it happened to them.
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Filling the roles of barefoot evangelist, séance leader, pianist, vocalist and stand-up memoirist, this willowy reed of a performer lends new credence to the term charismatic Christianity.
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One of the most critically admired titles at the festival, Garrett Bradley's "Time" tells the story of Fox Rich, a Louisiana activist, family woman extraordinaire and impressively dedicated memoirist.
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The redesigned magazine retains some of journalistic heritage as well, and features an interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, as well as an essay by Norwegian memoirist Karl Ove Knausgaard.
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" She said that she and her then-boyfriend, chef and memoirist Anthony Bourdain, who died by suicide in June, had decided to pay Bennett in order to avoid "negative publicity.
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Under the Radar reviews A jazz memoirist, a Palestinian rocketeer and Mexican myths set to music kick off the Public Theater's annual festival of adventurous work from across the globe.
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Day's book has him in conversation with Prince's ghost, arguing about how to tell the story, and gives us details about Prince that he never got to tell his memoirist.
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Op-Ed Contributor Midway through my opening address for the Brisbane Writers Festival earlier this month, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, a Sudanese-born Australian engineer and 25-year-old memoirist, walked out.
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Mary Karr, the poet and memoirist, said "Where the Past Begins" gave her new insight into Ms. Tan's evolution as a writer, and compared it to "Speak, Memory," Vladimir Nabokov's memoir.
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"It Happened to Me" for instance, will bring together seven writers, poets and essayists, including the French memoirist Édouard Louis and the Japanese journalist Shiori Ito, to share personal traumatic experiences.
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She is survived by her two daughters, Nancy Sinatra Jr., a singer known for her song "These Boots Are Made For Walking," and other hits, and Tina, a film producer and memoirist.
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Filtering the era's events through a character based on his own family's maid is an unusual choice for a memoirist work — he's called it a tribute to the women who raised him.
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"Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise" — a documentary about this prolific poet, memoirist and performance artist who died in 2014 at 86 — had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016.
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The 44th president, a veteran bestselling memoirist, will follow his wife next year with a much-anticipated published account of his presidency, just in time for Democrats' 2020 dreams of the White House.
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In anticipation of the park system turning 100 in August, we asked five writers — three novelists, a memoirist and a poet — to recount times when a national park left a mark on their lives.
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John Paul Vann (featured in Neil Sheehan's "A Bright Shining Lie"), Philip Caputo (the author of "A Rumor of War"), W.D. Ehrhart (the poet and memoirist) and others already famous from well-known books.
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Meanwhile, the acting career of her daughter, Carrie Fisher, took off, and then so did the second act — as rehabbed addict and memoirist who chronicled her bitterness over Ms. Reynolds's mothering and career obsession.
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As a memoirist, she has none of the raconteur's eloquence of Keith Richards, nor the showy intellectualism of Patti Smith; the book was put together from interviews with Sylvie Simmons, a British rock journalist.
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At first blush, the phrase "serial memoirist" seems distinctly postmodern: Before the self-empowerment boom of the 2003s and 70s, writing a memoir was thought to be the province of a reflective senior citizen.
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Louise A. DeSalvo, a Virginia Woolf scholar and memoirist who mined her Italian-American heritage for her books and who once observed that life "is too short for even one bad meal," died on Oct.
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That's part of the memoirist's job, it's true, but in order to defeat narcissism, a memoirist also has to reveal the more brutal realities of, well, there's no nice way to say this, the heart.
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Stein and Day also published the defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey, the writer Claude Brown, the critic Leslie Fiedler, the socialite and memoirist Barbara Howar and the Soviet Union scholar Bertram Wolfe, among many others.
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Carolyn See, a novelist and memoirist who built a writing life on the singularities and peculiarities of Los Angeles and its environs, where she lived much of her life, died on Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Writers will include the New York Times opinion writer Frank Bruni, the novelist Ann Patchett, the autism memoirist John Elder Robison, the linguist Deborah Tannen and other contributors who will offer their unique takes on family issues.
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Inspired by the artist's visit to North Korea, the video is a Clipart-filled trip through the memoirist tradition, Ulman occasionally becoming an authoritarian "Simon Says" figure, ordering her audience to step in tune with her directions.
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"I always think that Virginia Woolf would be mortified at having her name associated with this group," said Daphne Merkin, the memoirist and cultural critic, who is a member of the group but does not post anything.
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Born in New York to West Indian immigrant parents, Lorde described herself as a "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," but she worked as a librarian as well — and as an essayist, novelist, memoirist and influential feminist thinker.
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I think you're going to love this Kim Severson profile of Iliana Regan, the Chicago chef and memoirist who wants to give up the big city to run a remote inn on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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Books of The Times The qualities that make Seymour Hersh a first-rate reporter — his hustle, his wonkiness, his nighthawk drive to unearth a radioactive fact and then top that fact — make him a second-rate memoirist.
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Several prominent authors who stood accused of plagiarism, including the poet and memoirist Jill Bialosky and the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, have emerged relatively unscathed, their mistakes chalked up to haste or sloppiness rather than intellectual dishonesty.
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Now he can add memoirist to his résumé: Random House said on Wednesday that it had acquired a book of personal essays from Mr. Odenkirk that the publisher described as "a comic exploration" of his life and work.
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Mr. Wright drew critical praise for his biography "Lillian Hellman: The Image, the Woman," a 1986 life of the playwright, screenwriter, memoirist and left-wing activist who was long celebrated and castigated in equal measure in literary circles.
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Perhaps we could have done with less about Slouka's unease regarding this emotional Goliath — the prospect of humiliating and betraying his mother — since the question of fairness is the starting line any memoirist must arrive at before beginning.
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It says a great deal to Daniel Mendelsohn, a memoirist, critic and translator, best known for his 2006 book The Lost, in which he spends years trying to uncover what happened to six family members during the Holocaust.
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Nora Johnson, a novelist and memoirist who had an early success with "The World of Henry Orient," which was later made into a film with the help of her screenwriter father, Nunnally Johnson, died on Thursday in Dallas.
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The "Queer Eye" grooming expert and memoirist embodies many of the tenets of better personhood: He overcame a difficult past (sexual abuse, drug addiction and an H.I.V. diagnosis) to become the gorgeous and inspiring person we know today.
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Author of a biography of Emma Lazarus, Schor is less assured as a memoirist than as a scholar, and while these latter sections are not without some interest, they go on at greater length than the material warrants.
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The "Queer Eye" grooming expert and memoirist embodies many of the tenets of better personhood: He overcame a difficult past (sexual abuse, drug addiction and an H.I.V. diagnosis) to become the gorgeous and inspiring person we know today.
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" In a 20043 essay analyzing the appeal of early Britney, memoirist Elizabeth Wurtzel tried to figure out what was so captivating about the pop sensation: "Is it Britney Spears herself, or the way she seems not to get it?
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Poet and memoirist Mary Karr, best known for her beautiful books about her own alcoholism, went so far as to blame the 61-year-old's suicide on untreated alcoholism, and called Bourdain out for not being 100 percent sober.
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Reginald Dwayne Betts, an award-winning poet and memoirist and Yale Law School graduate who served time for a robbery conviction he incurred years ago as a juvenile, was denied admission to the bar of the State of Connecticut.
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After spending more than eight years in prison for a carjacking he committed at 16, Betts earned a graduate degree in writing, then a doctorate in jurisprudence from Yale Law School, and has become an acclaimed memoirist and poet.
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As the memoirist (his 2015 title I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves inspires the new Netflix series) also stars in the Jim Parsons-produced sitcom, we're looking at one of most powerful depictions of disability in TV history.
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A man of letters and high learning, who spent much of the 1950s living with Simone de Beauvoir and working alongside Jean-Paul Sartre and other philosophers, Lanzmann was equally at home as an author, filmmaker, memoirist, journalist and lecturer.
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As he lived through periods of war, totalitarianism, and exile, he became a political thinker who didn't like politics, a memoirist who distrusted confessional literature, a poet of witness who believed that the task of poetry surpassed being a witness.
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The chance that such a thing might happen at all seems remote — but that it might happen to Dani Shapiro, a novelist and memoirist who has devoted her life to telling stories about families and their secrets, is even more incredible.
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It was a broad, varied group, a room full of thinkers who'd followed each other's work but rarely met in person, from the eminent author Edmund White to the playwright Matthew Lopez to the memoirist and screenwriter Thomas Page McBee.
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Ann Birstein, a novelist and memoirist who recounted her bittersweet Jewish roots in New York as a rabbi's daughter in Hell's Kitchen and her turbulent marriage to the literary critic Alfred Kazin, died on Wednesday at her home in Manhattan.
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A few weeks ago, cleaning out my closet ahead of the new year, I found a skinny purple mohair scarf hand-knit for me by a friend in New York, the memoirist and essayist Elizabeth Wurtzel, who died on Tuesday.
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Gilbert's approach to art, healing, and writing without fear draws hundreds of participants to creativity workshops, which she headlines with blockbuster writers like memoirist and beloved internet advice guru Cheryl Strayed, the author of Wild, whom she also counts as a friend.
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Mr. Coates's book, a meditation on racism in America written in the form of a letter to his son, joins works by the novelist Lauren Groff, the memoirist and critic Vivian Gornick and the poet Ada Limón among those nominated for the awards.
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Speaking of the loss of human dignity, we need only to turn to Holocaust memoirist Primo Levi, a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp, to understand what the loss of not just dignity but also the utter loss of identity really means.
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Or perhaps you remember her: Laura Albert, the woman who invented Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy — giving him voice on the page and on the phone — and who turned her fantasy into a cult figure, chart-topping memoirist and reclusive, tantalizing elusive object of desire.
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Gladys Bourdain, a longtime copy editor at The New York Times who helped kick-start the writing career of her son Anthony, the chef who became a world-famous memoirist and television host, died on Friday at a hospice facility in the Bronx.
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Another major character in "Elbowing the Seducer" is an oversexed and elegant (his "precisely planed face balanced light like a Buddha's") book reviewer named Newman Sykes, in whom some have sought at least distant echoes of the critic and memoirist Anatole Broyard.
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In addition to showcasing prints from the Museum, the evening's conversation — between poet and memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts, conceptual artist Jesse Krimes, and the Director of the Open Society Global Drug Policy Program Kasia Malinowska — will be moderated by its production director, Daveen Trentman.
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Other nonfiction recommendations this week will set you off on a journey, whether retracing the steps of the "Odyssey" with the memoirist and translator Daniel Mendelsohn and his father, or crisscrossing America with the senior-citizen "workampers" of "Nomadland," for whom retirement isn't an option.
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Paul Lisicky, in his new memoir, "The Narrow Door," describes losing his old friend, the novelist Denise Gess, and his husband, the acclaimed poet and memoirist Mark Doty, within a year of each other: Gess to cancer, at the age of 57, and Doty to another man.
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He is a son of Virginia Rosenblatt and Roger Rosenblatt of Quogue, N.Y. The groom's mother is a poet whose work has appeared in the Southhampton Review, as well as in "Making Toast" (Ecco, 2010), a memoir written by his father, a memoirist, essayist and novelist.
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But now, after years of avoiding the spotlight to focus on his family and a 23-year career at Goldman Sachs, where he is chief information officer, the only child of the celebrated memoirist has decided it's time to step forward and further his father's work.
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Edited by Alexandra Fuller, the British-Zimbabwean memoirist whose most recent book touched on the loss she endured when her father and son died in quick succession, the anthology is best when its contents expand to themes that are larger than a place on a map.
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a prolific children's book author, memoirist and public speaker who, dying of cancer, found an extraordinarily large readership this month with a column in The New York Times titled "You May Want to Marry My Husband," died on Monday at her home in Chicago.
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If memoir is, according to serial memoirist Mark Twain's friend and adviser, William Dean Howells, "the most democratic province of the republic of letters," then it makes a certain kind of sense that critics and cognoscenti often sniff at writers who repeatedly offer up literature's answer to fried dough.
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As the youngest-ever editor-in-chief (of Teen Vogue) in Conde Nast's history, the publisher's second-ever Black EIC, a current star of Project Runway and a newly-minted memoirist at age 32, Elaine Welteroth strikes most as self-assured, a woman certain of both her goals and her purpose.
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" Speakers on the panel, moderated by the New School professor Susan Shapiro, include the Salon editor David Daley, the Norton editor Jill Bialosky, the Grove Atlantic editor Corrina Barsan, the Berkeley/Penguin editor Danielle Perez, the agent Ayesha Pande and the memoirist Aspen Matis, author of "Girl in the Woods.
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The opera diva Waltraud Meier will appear at National Sawdust, the abandoned sawdust factory turned concert hall in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on April 17 for a conversation with the proto-punk singer, poet, artist and memoirist Patti Smith — who happens to be a fan of Ms. Meier's renowned portrayal of Wagner's Isolde.
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In a TimesTalks event on Thursday, Mr. Burns and his co-director, Lynn Novick, along with the veteran and novelist Karl Marlantes and the Vietnamese-American memoirist Duong Van Mai Elliott, spoke about the war and its legacy with James Bennet, the editorial page editor of The New York Times.
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Nearly a century before the memoirist Cheryl Strayed ("Wild") laced up her hiking boots and took a walk on the wild side in the Sierra Nevada mountain range — a precursor to millennials' obsession with forest bathing — Brigman was going on expeditions deep into its Desolation Valley and Donner Summit around Lake Tahoe.
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Though Carrie Fisher will be most widely remembered for her iconic role as Star Wars' Princess Leia, her career spanned five decades and half a dozen disciplines — she was a voice actor, screenwriter, live theatre performer, memoirist, novelist, and a fervent activist who spoke openly about her own struggles with mental health and addiction.
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Inside the List EN GARDE: Bruce Dickinson, the amateur fencer and home-brewing commercial pilot who has — incidentally — also spent some 40 years as lead singer of the heavy-metal band Iron Maiden, can add best-selling memoirist to his résumé: "What Does This Button Do?" hits the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 10.
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Another example: There was a review of Ariel Levy's new memoir, The Rules Do Not Apply, in The New Republic, in which the reviewer called the memoirist white, privileged, and oblivious — while identifying herself as white but also intimating that she, the reviewer, had reached some whole other level of self-awareness that clearly Levy had not.
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"House of Nails" is a story of exceptional excess that finds our memoirist playing the sensible adult in his friendship with Charlie Sheen; buying Wayne Gretzky's house for $17.5 million; and paying detectives $500,000 to dig up dirt on umpires so that he could suborn their objectivity by telling them embarrassing things about their private lives while at bat.
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James McBride, best known as a memoirist ("The Color of Water") and a novelist (the National Book Award-winning "The Good Lord Bird"), wades into this space with "Kill 'Em and Leave," tackling one of the most complex and most fascinating figures in American music over the last 50 years, the self-proclaimed "hardest-working man in show business" himself, James Brown.
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In this complex and engaging memoir, Sulome is both journalist and memoirist, describing her metamorphosis from entitled brat who wasted her teens and early 20s on OxyContin, Xanax, coke, pot and booze, before getting therapy and putting her journalism degree from Columbia University to the test, investigating the 30-year-old mystery of who really kidnapped her father and why.
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Exclusive 220 Photos View Slide Show ' The century-old Harlem brownstone that served as the New York home of the memoirist, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou for almost a decade, and where she entertained scores of friends like Oprah Winfrey and Cicely Tyson with dance parties and competitive Boggle games and whipped up her signature smothered chicken, is about to enter the market.
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In short, the new Playboy, which will appear on newsstands as early as this weekend, has ditched its jauntily illicit aura and become a slightly saucier version of a lot of other magazines, like Esquire and GQ. But the March issue retains elements of the original DNA, including a lengthy interview (with the MSNBC host Rachel Maddow) and a long essay by a famous writer (the Norwegian memoirist and awkward-moment connoisseur Karl Ove Knausgaard).
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These limitations are especially stark compared to the wealth of black art and scholarship about trauma: work by the historian Saidiya Hartman, the poet Claudia Rankine, the memoirist and novelist Jesmyn Ward — and so many others who participate in what the writer Christina Sharpe has called "wake work," art that bears witness to the shadow of slavery and conceives of itself as a kind of care over the living and the dead.
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Over the last decade and a half, Jackson has ushered into being the works of category-defying novelists like Victor LaValle and Mat Johnson, polemicist-experientialists like Coates and the civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson and pop-cultural vanguardists like the chef-memoirist Eddie Huang and the rapper-entrepreneur Jay Z. To the extent that 13st-century literary audiences have been introduced to the realities and absurdities born of the phenomenon of race in America, Jackson has done a disproportionate amount of that introducing.
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