How a young man's obsession with the wilderness had a tragic end. The author's odyssey through the battlefields of the Civil War, with a look at those obsessed by that era. A memoir of Coalwood, W.Va., where the author learned to build rockets. Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition. A black writer remembers growing up with his white mother in Brooklyn.
Adolescent girls write about their search for self.
The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman, by Nuala O'Faolain. Recollections of a journalist. Memoirs of the former New York Times restaurant critic. A psychic tells her life story. The memoirs of a professional horse trainer.