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Maybe it's because his mother was a teacher. Or maybe it's because he has spent most of his life in classrooms as a wide-eyed first grader, a naA_ve college student, a seminarian, and now as a visiting writer in residencies...

Part personal narrative, part cultural history—the true story of the man behind ¡Ask a Mexican! and the incredible place that bore him. Publishers Weekly Readers get two stories for the price of one in this witty and informative memoir. Journalist...

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You've heard of Norman Borlaug, Simon Estes, Ann Landers, Dan Gable, and Fred Maytag - exceptional Iowans who have done exceptional things. But what about Mildred Wirt Benson, Sam Blanc, Beulah Gundling, Dorothy Houghton, Monsignor Luigi Ligutti, Robert Noyce, and...

"We four Kelton boys were rich. It was not because we had money, for we didn't. Money was always a short commodity in the 1930sand early 1940s. We were rich because we got to do for free what many people...

David Lee Thompson first introduced his readers to his 1940s and '50s Appalachian boyhood in "A Framework for Happiness," which appeared in a book entitled THE LIFE WRITING CLASS. Now, in RIVER OF MEMORIES, he shares the rest of these...

History and geography helped give the Drakes their identities: they knew who they were because they knew where they were and when they were, with no alienation from either time or place. Their lives were thus whole and full. Their...

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. Now, married to an American woman, and father to two children who are...

This book tells the fascinating story of an Athabascan-Irish family's journey from the old ways to the more modern but uncertain world of the twentieth century. Publishers Weekly Opening this intriguing but insular memoir with a crucial memory from her...