Biography
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality. Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. Works in …
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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 July 2024 English
Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English
Western modernity is characterized by instrumental relations between humans and nature, as well as between humans themselves, that have caused irreversible environmental and social exploitation and degradation. Many policy documents, …
span an oeuvre of several books or an entire biography. Thus, references do not invoke the authority …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 9 July 2024 English
From Trench Town to the top of the world — one man's inspiring fight for meaning, dignity, and respect. Tiga’s Tale chronicles the remarkable life of world champion boxer Barrington …
LCSH: Boxers (Sports)—Canada—Biography. | CSH: Jamaican Canadians—Biography. | LCGFT: Biographies. Classification: …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English
Vice Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn (1879–1957) was the British-appointed governor of Newfoundland from 1936 to 1946 – a period of remarkable change that would culminate in Newfoundland’s union with …
| LcSh: Governors— Newfoundland and Labrador—Biography. | LcSh: Newfoundland and Labrador— Economic …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English
Myths and stereotypes surrounding seafarers in the Age of Sail persist to this day. Sailors were celebrated for their courage, strength, and skill, yet condemned for militancy, vice, and fecklessness. …
classes.43 The biases and distortions of auto- biography become its strength. Drawn from a range of time … papers and journals alongside works of history and biography, and priced at 18 making men in the age of sailten … Seafaring memoir-writers mixed autobiography, biography, and history, interweaving their own memories …
CHB: Coach House Books · 11 June 2024 English
A rediscovered classic, Yesterdays turns colonialism on its head. Originally published in 1974, Yesterdays is nominally the story of one man’s attempt to launch a Hindu Mission from Trinidad to …
Equal to Mystery, Christopher Laird’s biography of Harold Sonny Ladoo, contains a striking letter … this book.’ And it was on a panel about Laird’s biography of Ladoo at the Bocas Literature Festival that …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 6 June 2024 English
Tracing Louis Riel’s metamorphosis from traitor to hero, Braz argues that, through his writing, Riel resists his portrayal as both a Canadian patriot and a pan-Indigenous leader. After being hanged …
Métis—History. | Lcsh: Métis— Prairie Provinces—Biography. | Lcsh: Métis—Historiography. | Lcsh: Canada—History … from his texts readers “can draft their own biography” of the Métis leader (Stanley, “Foreword” xxxii; … this chapter, I will not attempt to produce a biography of Riel. What I will do instead is dissect his …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 4 June 2024 English
A diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion.In this powerful and deeply personal collection, Gloria Blizzard uses traditional narrative essays, hybrid structures, and the tools of poetry to …
CSH: Authors, Canadian (English)—21st century—Biography. | LCGFT: Essays. | LCGFT: Autobiographies. Classification: …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 25 May 2024 English
Kieran has produced a masterpiece for our masterpieces.
defence.”52 As Peter Stursberg wrote in his biography of Pearson, “Some might say that’s the way they …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 21 May 2024 English
When he first hiked the Don Valley trails / all he heard was river as he strode / beside its glitter of smashing glass Grounded in the local and immediate …
Toronto Press, 2020); Allan Levine, Toronto: Biography of a City (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2014); …
