Jason Arday claimed he was paid ‘1.4 million’ by publisher for memoir | Academics

Jason Arday claimed he was paid ‘1.4 million’ by publisher for memoir | Academics

Jason Arday, the former Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism and embellishment, claimed he was paid “1.4 million” for his forthcoming memoir detailing his extraordinary backstory. Arday was dogged by a growing series... Read more »
Geography of Heaven by Rory MacLean – soul-searching journeys into the afterlife | Autobiography and memoir

Geography of Heaven by Rory MacLean – soul-searching journeys into the afterlife | Autobiography and memoir

In this moving, sometimes grandiloquent grief-memoir-cum-travelogue, Rory MacLean pairs an affinity for new-age thinking with a habit of loftily holding forth (“none of us are created for naught”, “love can but lead... Read more »
Jason Arday claimed he was paid ‘1.4 million’ by publisher for memoir | Academics

Unsayable by Michael Cunningham review – The Hours author on the insecurities that powered his creative life | Autobiography and memoir

As an eight-year-old in comfortable, solid, suburban California, Michael Cunningham felt compelled to make art before he quite understood what it was, or could do: a painting of souls ascending to heaven,... Read more »
Joe Biden to publish memoir of presidency after November midterms | Joe Biden

Joe Biden to publish memoir of presidency after November midterms | Joe Biden

Former president Joe Biden will publish a memoir this fall, publisher Little, Brown and Company told the Associated Press. Promise Me, America, which Biden says will touch upon everything from the economy... Read more »
Transcendent by Laverne Cox review – success against the odds | Autobiography and memoir

Transcendent by Laverne Cox review – success against the odds | Autobiography and memoir

When Laverne Cox was eight years old and growing up in Mobile, Alabama, she saved up her pocket money and bought herself a fan decorated with Japanese geishas. The fan became her... Read more »
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young by Zayd Ayers Dohrn review – child of the revolution | Autobiography and memoir

Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young by Zayd Ayers Dohrn review – child of the revolution | Autobiography and memoir

Every aspect of a family’s life will seem normal to the small children within it; only hindsight can bring what was abnormal into relief. Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s earliest years were spent on the run... Read more »
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young by Zayd Ayers Dohrn review – child of the revolution | Autobiography and memoir

Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive | Books

The memoir of a man who survived the horrors of Hiroshima is to be published for the first time this summer after its discovery in a US archive. The 230-page memoir was... Read more »
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young by Zayd Ayers Dohrn review – child of the revolution | Autobiography and memoir

J. D. Vance’s Contemptuous Conversion Memoir

Thiel donated a record-setting fifteen million dollars to Vance’s successful 2022 bid for Ohio senator, but his largesse on this score receives no acknowledgment in “Communion,” which portrays the campaign as little... Read more »
Transcendent by Laverne Cox review – success against the odds | Autobiography and memoir

Cracking stories, Gromit: Wallace’s long-suffering canine companion to tell all in memoir | Books

Gromit, the canine star of the Wallace and Gromit animations, is “breaking his silence” and writing a memoir. After “bottling everything up for a long time”, the moment has come for him... Read more »
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