Biography / Memoirs

Sharing stories of innovation, resilience, loss, and sacrifice, Pandemic Voices uncovers international perspectives of patients, health care workers, and communities during the most challenging moments of the COVID-19 pandemic.

No Regrets examines the remarkable life and tumultuous times of William Howard Hearst, who served as Premier of Ontario from 1914 to 1919.

Jane Goodall meets Carrie Bradshaw in Sticky, Sexy, Sad – an insightful, empowering memoir by an anthropologist who lays her own life bare as she explores the cultural matrix of digital courtship.

Educated, articulate, and with an enduring fascination for the natural world, Leslie Howard Miller, a Canadian soldier who served in the First World War, kept this remarkable diary of his wartime experiences.

This beautiful memoir sheds light on the expectations for women in the mid-twentieth century – as wives, mothers, and workers – through an exploration of one woman’s upbringing, aspirations, and attempts to make her voice heard.

Part family history, part memoir, Behind the Glass tells the story behind the famous Villa Tugendhat.

Building that Bright Future examines letters and memoirs of Finnish North Americans to provide a rare glimpse of daily life in the 1930s from the edge of the Soviet Union.

This final volume of the Correspondence subseries of the Collected Works of Erasmus includes the letters from Erasmus’ final years.

In this autobiography of a former Olympian and leader in sport history, Bruce Kidd details why sports are important to him, what he’s learned from them, and why he continues to fight to make them more equitable.

Arms and Letters is the first study in English dedicated to the literary and cultural analysis of early modern Spanish military autobiographical texts.

Covering issues within the scientific community, In Sight is a deeply personal memoir of a woman’s experience transitioning a major scientific treatment from grassroots development to commercial breakthrough.

The Soul of Things is a deeply reflective, evocative, and beautifully written memoir. A bestseller in Hungary, where it has been compared to the works of Primo Levi, it marks an important female contribution to the canon of Holocaust writing.

Studying the diary as a genre, this book examines Jewish diary entries written in Occupied France.

This book documents the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the papers of Johann Cornies (1789–1848), an ambitious and energetic leader of the Mennonite settlement of Molochna. Cornies’ papers offer a widow onto both the Mennonite world, and onto the Tsarist state’s relationship with minorities of the frontier.

Jacques Rossi was one of the most astute observers of the Stalinist system, in addition to being one of its victims.

These interwoven stories and articles provide essential insights into the medical world of premature birth, and into what happens to these babies and their families when things don’t go as planned.