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Award-winning fiction author Tobias Wolff recounts his own growing up in the 1950s, creating a story that has captured the hearts and minds of ... More

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Heralded instantly upon publication by the critics, "This Boy's Life" has come to be universally recognized as a true modern classic of autobiography.

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The author of "The Barracks Thief" and "Hunters in the Snow" recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout ... More

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Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff ... More

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Robert Olmstead has peopled his fiction with the rough, laconic farmers, loggers, and hired hands of rural New England mountain towns, where getting ... More

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Ten award-winning authors tell young readers stories drawn from their own childhood memories. Funny, heartbreaking, or both at once, their stories ... More

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One fine day and out of a clear blue sky, horsing around with his sons on a Caribbean beach, Geoffrey Wolff was struck down by a catastrophically ... More

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Through intensely passionate prose, this unique autobiography charts Salas' dramatic coming of age in the conflicting shadows of two older brothers: ... More

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Mosaic: Memoirs, Lincoln Kirstein's long-awaited autobiography, is a compelling, often highly subjective evocation of his astonishing youth. The book ... More

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For the first time ever, Lopez has compiled the very best stories about growing up Chicana/o by 20 authors, including Sandra Cisneros, Rudolpho Anaya ... More

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Sheldon M. Novick portrays Henry James as a man of great emotional depth--powerful, confident, generous, and above all, courageous. This landmark ... More

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The story of the roots of black basketball in America, "Hoop Roots" is a major new memoir by the author of "Brothers and Keepers" and "Fatheralong". ... More

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Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991) was destined to grow up to become the most beloved, bestselling children's book ... More

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Nineteen of America's finest writers shape a "home" of essays, each contributing a different "room" to a collection that gives readers a spirited and ... More

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Award-winning author Krull explores the formative first 22 years of the life of Ted Geisel--better known as Dr. Seuss. The first picture book ... More

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Follows the popular children's author through college years during the Depression; jobs including that of librarian; marriage; and writing and ... More

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In a searing memoir of a fmaily torn apart by exile, Perez Firmat chronicles the painful search for roots that has come to dominate his adult life. ... More

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Mary McCarthy's memoir of her adolescence, highlighting her experiences in education as she recalls in intimate narrative the eight years before her ... More

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When she was six, Mary McCarthy travelled from Seattle to Minneapolis. Within days of arrival her mother and father had died from a flu and Mary ... More

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