Tag Archive for ‘memoir speaker’
Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff is a novelist, short story writer, and memoirist and the recipient of the 1985 for The Barracks Thief, the 1989 Whiting Award for Fiction and Nonfiction, the 2006 PEN/Malamud Award (co-winner), the 2008 The Story Prize for his collection of short stories, Our Story Begins, the 2014 Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Oregon State University, the 2015 National […]
Jamie Brickhouse
“Jamie Brickhouse has lived an amazing life—in and out of publishing—and he provides audiences with a vivid and insightful talk that will be sure to provoke and inspire.” —Shaye Areheart, Director of the Columbia Publishing Course Jamie Brickhouse is the author of the critically-acclaimed Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother whose […]
Amanda Bennett
Amanda Bennett is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, editor, and author of several books including The Cost of Hope: The Story of a Marriage, a Family and a Quest for Life (Random House), her memoir of the battle she and Foley, her late husband, fought against his kidney cancer. The book chronicles the extraordinary measures […]