biography

Six authors discuss the problems and pleasures of reinventing the past.

Ed Koch tells of his five years as mayor of New York City, bringing the city back to financial health from the brink of insolvency.

The author tells about her family's life on the North Dakota prairie of the early 1900s, focusing on the story of her mother Carrine, who as a single young Norwegian-American woman staked out her claim in the unsettled land.

Author's memoir and history of her family spanning six generations, chronicling what it is like to be racially mixed.

Recounts the story of the Horne family spanning eight generations and describing America's developing black middle class by Lena Horne's daughter.

In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War.

Uses the words and writings of the men who forged the United States to offer an intimate view of pivotal events and personalities in the creation of the nation.

The autobiography of an African-American woman Ph.D. who teaches at various colleges in the South.

The author describes his life as a member of an Italian-American family and the lives of other members of three generations of his immigrant family in Italy and in the United States.

The autobiography of a young African American girl growing up in North Carolina during a time when the Southern system of segregation seems to offer little hope for a future.