Beautifully written and heartfelt account of the author's adopting a Native American boy with fetal alcohol syndrome.

The Pulitzer Prize winning novelist remembers her childhood in Jackson, Mississippi, and the earliest influences that made her a writer.

Warts-and-all account of the author's boyhood in a mountain town outside Seattle with an abusive step-father. His story continues in "In Pharaoh's Army," a Vietnam memoir.

The best-selling novelist tells the story of his youthful basketball career, focusing on his senior year as point guard for The Citadel team in 1966-67. A loving tribute to his teammates.

A collection of personal essays drawn from the experiences of a writer whose life was "broken" in an accident that confined him to a wheelchair. See also his "Meditations From a Moveable Chair."

A suspenseful, moving, sometimes grimly humorous account of a gay man's hard-luck family and his efforts to find the father he has not seen for 35 years.

The moving account of a town in eastern Tennessee in the mid-1980s, told by a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases and treating the community's first cases of AIDS.

A sometimes painful memoir of growing up and working on a huge family-corporation ranch in southern Oregon.

The author remembers growing up in in extended black family in a West Virginia river town in the 1950s and 1960s.

Beautifully written memoir by Wyoming writer who grew up on a dude ranch outside of Yellowstone.

Beautifully told memoir of growing up in Montana on the eastern slopes of the Rockies. A loving tribute to the author's cowboy father and grandmother.

The author remembers his youth in New York and two careers, first as West Point cadet and fighter pilot, then as a writer moving among international literary figures and filmmakers.

Fortunately, though he grew up on a ranch in West Texas, Elmer Kelton by his own admission did not make a good cowboy. Instead, he became one of the best writers of historical western fiction, and this is his personal story.

This memoir is an indictment of the treatment of women that prevails in many Islamic countries, as well as among Muslims living in Europe. A harrowing account of domestic abuse, arranged marriage, and living as a refugee, set against decades of tyranny and tribal warfare in post-colonial Somalia.

Memoir by Israeli novelist Amos Oz is an absorbing "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." The first 200 pages are about his parents' families, Russian-speaking emigrants to Israel in the 1930s from Eastern Europe. The following 300+ concern his parents and the years until his mother's death when he was still a teenager.

Memoir of the young years of Palestinian-American Edward Said, born of a Christian family in Jerusalem and growing up in Cairo in the years before the establishment of Israel in 1947.

An absorbing and sometimes harrowing account of a life suddenly altered by the shot of a gun in a robbery attempt. Although the book deals largely with this subject, it concerns itself as much with the author's interest in boxing and his friendship with a young Mexican-American boxer, Jesus Chavez.