REAL LIFE
The titles in this section are biographies, autobiographies and memoirs. What's the difference between a memoir and an autobiography?
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An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus
$25.00Diane Arbus was one of the most brilliant and revered photographers in the history of American art. Her portraits, in stark black and white, seemed to reveal the psychological truths of their subjects. But after she committed suicide in 1971, at the age of forty-eight, the presumed chaos and darkness of her own inner life became, for many viewers, inextricable from her work. Learn More -
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: A Memoir
$24.95"I was born male and now I’ve got medical and government documents that say I’m female—but I don’t call myself a woman, and I know I’m not a man. . . ." Learn More -
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
$26.95A Childhood is the unforgettable memoir of Harry Crews' earliest years, a sharply remembered portrait of the people, locales, and circumstances that shaped him--and destined him to be a storyteller. Learn More -
A California Childhood
$29.99In A California Childhood he plays with the concept of memoir through personal snapshots, sketches, paintings, poems, and stories. Learn More
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