Word: memoirize
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Penning a memoir at age 26 takes cojones. Winning a British Book Award for it takes the world's most famous left foot, a former Spice Girl wife and a public adoring enough to make it the nation's fastest-selling biography of all time. Published last fall, soccer star DAVID BECKHAM'S My Side has sold more than 1 million copies, earning it a special prize for popular success at the awards last week. Beckham couldn't quite savor the victory, however, as he was also getting kicked around by the British press for an alleged affair with...
...from the legendary Fort Apache. At 39, he has a bit of that seedy-sexy Chris Noth charm to him--late Chris Noth, more Mr. Big than Detective Logan. But Conlon has another calling too: he's an author. His book, Blue Blood (Riverhead; 562 pages), is a memoir of his first seven years as a New York City cop, and it may be the best account ever written of life behind the badge...
...Times, the Washington Post and other high-profile venues. (The Times, generally favorable, said the book’s “accounts crackle with immediacy,” while the Post spent most of its double-bill review riffing on a BBC editor’s recently-published memoir.) Embedded has not been a blockbusting bestseller, but after bringing Carlson and co-author Bill Katovsky a Goldsmith Book Prize from the Kennedy School of Government’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy last month, the book is poised to bring...
Ambition and moral zeal were his propellants, and Califano never slowed down. His memoir, Inside: A Public and Private Life (Public Affairs; 539 pages), is as jam-packed and energetic as his life...
...prolific author André Brink follows the journey - physical and emotional - of a young German woman who travels to southwest Africa, where she confronts chauvinistic settlers, a harsh desert landscape and her own demons. Antjie Krog began her career as a poet but is best known for her semifictionalized memoir Country of My Skull (Vintage), which chronicles South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and was recently made into a movie starring Juliette Binoche and Samuel L. Jackson. In A Change of Tongue (Random House, South Africa) she explores the many changes during South Africa's first decade of freedom...