Biography Posts

No Longer a Footnote: Extraordinary Lives
History is too often told through the texture of men’s lives. In recent years, the rise of women’s biography and memoir has sought to rectify that, …

12 Books for International Women's Day
Can you hear them now? If you can't, you're not listening. Recent memoirs and biographies about remarkable women would make great picks for International …

HGD - Biography + Memoir


Launchpad: TIFF: A LIFE OF TIMOTHY FINDLEY, by Sherrill Grace
"Tiff is a biography of becoming. Timothy Findley was a writer, but one who arrived at the vocation by way of the stage, a storyteller who shifted from …

BC Pioneer Stories

Marianne Boucher's TALKING TO STRANGERS
Launching the graphic memoir Talking to Strangers: A Memoir of My Escape from a Cult.



How I Survived
Four Nights on the Ice (Inuktitut)