Red, White, Black, and Blue
A Dual Memoir of Race and Class in Appalachia
By William M. Drennen Jr. and Kojo (William T.) Jones Jr.
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Edited by Dolores Johnson
A groundbreaking approach to studying not only cultural linguistics but also the cultural heritage of a historic time and place in America. It gives witness to the issues of race and class inherent in the way we write, speak, and think.
Memoir · African American Studies · Social Science | Regional Studies · Gender Studies · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional · Creative Nonfiction · Literature · Appalachia
Wyeth People is the story of one writer’s search for the meaning of artistic creativity, approached from personal contact with the work of one of the world’s great artists, Andrew Wyeth.
Art | Individual Artists | General · Biography, Artists and Architects · Literature · Creative Nonfiction
Aquamarine Blue 5
Personal Stories of College Students with Autism
Edited by Dawn Prince-Hughes
This is the first book to be written by autistic college students about the challenges they face. Aquamarine Blue 5 details the struggle of these highly sensitive students and shows that there are gifts specific to autistic students that enrich the university system, scholarship, and the world as a whole.Dawn
Autism · Memoir · Disability Studies · Education · Creative Nonfiction
The River Home
A Memoir
By Dorothy Weil
The death of her father begins Dorothy Weil’s search for what causes the family’s “spinning of in all directions like the pieces of Chaos.” She embarks on a river odyssey, traveling the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi Rivers by steamboat, towboat, and even an old-fashioned flatboat. The river brings her family back, as she records the stories of her fellow “river rats”: steamboat veterans, deckhands, captains, and cooks.The
Memoir · Social Science | Regional Studies · Appalachia · Literature · Ohio and Regional · Creative Nonfiction
Set the Ploughshare Deep
A Prairie Memoir
By Timothy Murphy
Fifteen years in the making, Set the Ploughshare Deep is a memoir in prose, verse, and woodcuts. It depicts the consequences of Warren’s advice for a writer who turned his back on cities and the academic world, who bought and sold, farmed and failed like his forebears, all the while distilling what he saw, heard, or felt into his tall tales and short verses. Timothy Murphy has harvested pheasants and ducks as well as wheat and apples.
Memoir · Poetry · Biography & Autobiography | General · American Literature · Midwest · Midwest · Literature · Creative Nonfiction
The Heritage
A Daughter’s Memories of Louis Bromfield
By Ellen Bromfield Geld
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Foreword by Lucy Dos Passos Coggin
Louis Bromfield, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, established one of the most significant homesteads in Ohio on his Malabar Farm. Today it receives thousands of visitors a year from all over the world; once the site of the wedding of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, it was a successful prototype of experimental and conservation farming.This lively, outspoken, and affectionate memoir preserves all things Louis Bromfield fought for or against in a life marked by surging vitality and gusto.
Memoir · Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection · Women Authors · Creative Nonfiction · Ohio and Regional · Ohio · Midwest
The Longest Voyage
Circumnavigators in the Age of Discovery
By Robert Silverberg
Capturing the total context of political climate and historical change that made the Age of Discovery one of excitement and drama, Silverberg brings a motley crew of early ocean explorers vividly to life.
History | Expeditions & Discoveries · 16th century · Creative Nonfiction · History | Maritime History & Piracy
The Golden Dream
Seekers of El Dorado
By Robert Silverberg
In this history of quest and adventure, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg traces the fate of Old World explorers lured westward by the myth of El Dorado, the City of Gold.
History | Expeditions & Discoveries · 16th century · Political Science | Imperialism · Creative Nonfiction
The Realm of Prester John
By Robert Silverberg
In this genesis of a great medieval myth, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg’s romantic and fabulous tale explores the mysterious origins of Prester John, the astonishing Christian potentate of the East.
Social Science | Folklore & Mythology · Historical Biography · Creative Nonfiction
Booking Pleasures
By Jack Matthews
“The covetous foraging for old and rare books,” is how Matthews defines “booking.” It is an act which leads naturally to the pleasures of adding them to one’s personal library, then reading them as instruments of light and measure in a murky and chaotic world.
Antiques and Collectibles · Biography & Autobiography | General · American Literature · Literature · Creative Nonfiction
Tales Never Told Around the Campfire
True Stories of Frontier America
By Mark Dugan
Ten outlaws, ten states, ten stories of nineteenth-century fugitives remarkable because the events really took place. Mark Dugan’s latest outlaw chase reins in enough evidence to corral the cynics. There is new information on the strange relationship between Wild Bill Hickok, his enemy and victim, David McCanles, and the beautiful Sarah Shull of North Carolina. Was Tom Horn a hired killer for the big cattlemen in the unsolved Wyoming ambush? How much do we really know about Deputy U.S.
American History · Literature · Biography & Autobiography | General · Western Americana · History · Creative Nonfiction
