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...successful. She found herself; she found a pleasant local fellow whom she later married; she discovered a passel of good friends in the cracker families living around the creek bend; and out of her experiences she wrote the novel that made her famous, The Yearling, and later her memoir, Cross Creek...
...This memoir by former Army Pilot Robert Mason recalls the violent, deafening, treetop world of 1,000 Viet Nam helicopter missions. Chickenhawk begins with a Florida farm boy's daydream of levitating above the fields and ends with the veteran suspended in horror and disillusionment...
Crowding the middle were historians, legal scholars, journalists and even a novelist-E.L. Doctorow, whose Book of Daniel used fact as a springboard to fiction. In 1975 the Rosenbergs' sons, Robert and Michael Meeropol (the name of their adoptive parents), published a memoir of their frightening childhoods. The appearance of We Are Your Sons coincided with a campaign to clear the Rosenberg name and with the Meeropols' successful suit to examine previously closed Government files...
That is the theme of Tetsuko's charming 1981 memoir, Totto-Chan, the Little Girl at the Window, which has sold an extraordinary 6 million copies, making it the bestselling book in Japanese history. The daughter of a father who was a concert violinist and a mother who trained as an opera singer, Tetsuko was thrown out of her rigid grammar school at the age of six because she liked to stand at an open window and chatter with the swallows and street musicians. She subsequently attended an experimental school in Tokyo that allowed her to blossom...
...widely traveled former correspondent for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuściński was evidently impressed by the family resemblance shared by absolute rulers, whether they reign in Addis Ababa, Moscow or Warsaw. In fact, the real subject of his ambiguous, compelling memoir is not Haile Selassie's primitive autocracy. It is modern totalitarianism reduced to its primordial elements...