Items tagged with memoir.

An Interview With Writer Robin Romm

by Lauren Hamlin

Direct Quote

What began for Robin Romm as an exercise in navigating the loss of her mother evolved into a memoir, The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks, published this month by Scribner. She recently spoke about transitioning from fiction to nonfiction, and back again, and the difficulty of releasing a memoir into the world.

Neither Side Backing Down in Ishmael Beah Memoir Dispute

by Staff

Daily News

Five days after a newspaper in Australia published a report challenging the accuracy of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Sara Crichton Books, 2007) by Ishmael Beah, neither side is backing down; both the author and his publisher have issued statements defending the book while the Australian stands by its claims.

Facts in 2007 Best-selling Memoir Challenged by Australian Newspaper

by Staff

Daily News

A newspaper in Australia recently published a report challenging the accuracy of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Sara Crichton Books, 2007), a debut book by Ishmael Beah that was marketed in Starbucks and chosen as one of the best nonfiction books of the year by Time magazine.

All the Things He Did Not Know: A Profile of Tom Bissell

by Frank Bures

Feature

March/April 2007

In ten years, Tom Bissell went from being a directionless dropout to the acclaimed author of four books.