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Benjamin C. Bradlee ’43-’44, legendary executive editor of the Washington Post from 1968-1991. He is one of four people alive who know the identity of Watergate informant Deep Throat, and authored the bestselling memoir A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures. It’s the key question. The answer is no one ever knows what they don’t know. I know that I don’t know a lot. I don’t know about Saddam Hussein. I don’t know what the hell he?...
Scott F. Turow (Harvard Law School ’78), a lawyer and novelist. His next book, Reversible Errors, comes out in October. His previous best-sellers include Presumed Innocent and One L, a memoir of his first year at Harvard Law School. Every language except English. Physics, including the basic stuff, despite a miracle C in college. Who will fall in love with who. And if the Cubs will ever again play in the World Series...
...fished carp, hunted water deer and encountered a nation where lives remain rooted in nature and clan and authentic interactions between human beings. People knew his true identity, and didn't care. Zhang, in turn, came to admire his "kind and generous neighbors." The most remarkable passages in this memoir are those that explore this "unsanctioned" China. Part of the tragedy for Zhang and fellow exiles from his generation is that they can no longer hope to connect with this unofficial country. Nor can they escape their harsh memories of the official China. Exile could hardly be more bitter...
Wamba devoted his writing, which included a number of articles and essays, as well as a memoir, to issues of race and culture in the U.S., where he was born, and in Africa, where he lived for many years...
This two-cultured upbringing formed the root of his 1999 memoir, Kinship: A Family’s Journey in Africa and America, which described his life experiences and explored broader differences between Africans and Americans born of African descent...