Word: memoirist
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...embraced the world as a social activist--a Catholic anarchist. Merton withdrew from the world to become a monk, memoirist, essayist. O'Connor lived surrounded by her famous peacocks on a farm in Milledgeville, Ga., her body restricted by disease, her imagination ranging with strange originality through a universe of her creation. Percy labored on, exploring the modern self that he considered essentially empty. Elie braids these four distinctive strands into a story, both inspiring and deeply intelligent, in which, as he says, "art, life and religious faith converge." --By Lance Morrow
...writing by decrying the book’s occasional classification as a novel and not nonfiction. “[T]he critics cannot believe that the power to make us feel this, our one and only life, as very few novels actually do these days, is coming from a memoirist...
DIED. KATHARINE GRAHAM, 84, retired owner of Newsweek and the Washington Post, Beltway socialite and Pulitzer-prizewinning memoirist; of head injuries in a fall; in Boise, Idaho. After taking over the newspaper in 1963 following the death of her husband Philip, Graham guided the Post's transformation into one of the most powerful newspapers in the country, joining the New York Times in its 1971 quest to publish the Pentagon papers and overseeing her paper's history-making pursuit of the Watergate scandal. (See Appreciation, page...
...inflicted heavy damage on the country, and he was abandoned by his junta two years later. Exiled to New York, he returned only after the removal of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986. DIED. KATHERINE GRAHAM, 84, retired publisher and president of the Washington Post and Pulitzer-winning memoirist; in Boise, Idaho. After taking over the newspaper in 1963, following the suicide of her husband Philip, Graham guided the Post's transformation into one of the most powerful newspapers in the U.S., uncovering the Watergate scandal and publishing the Pentagon Papers. DIED. BEATE UHSE, 81, former German World War II test...
Going on a book tour is pure glamour, right? Not so fast. For many authors, book tours are a blur of hotels and bookstores at warp speed. Maybe that's why literary America is loosening its tie and letting its hair down. Best-selling memoirist Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) is becoming famous for appearances that are close to performance art. At one point he brought two dermatologists on stage to explain itching and scratching...