Virginia Woolf An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, "A Writer's Diary" was drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period...

Anne Lamott For a quarter century, more than a million readers—scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities—have been inspired by Anne Lamott’s hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins...

Shelly Spilka The story of an Israeli woman's struggle to forge her personal and professional identity. March 29, 2001 by State University of New York Press

Michaela and Elaine DePrince Orphaned by war, saved by ballet.Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, Michaela DePrince witnesses atrocities that no child ever should. Her father is killed by rebels...

Anonymous The remarkable memoir of an Iraqi woman who escaped from captivity in Baghdad and became America's leading undercover counter-terrorist expert. Here is the story of an anonymous counter-terrorism expert,...

Gershom Scholem Among the great innovators in Jewish thought in the twentieth century, Gershom Scholem stands on the highest level.  After fifty years of scholarship, he offers a memoir that...

Roger Cohen It has taken me a long time to piece all this together. Memories come not like heavy rain but the drops falling from leaves after it. There were...

Chris van Wyk Agnes, the Van Wyks’ Zulu housekeeper, had a special friendship with young Chris in the late sixties to early seventies. He would defend her whenever she came...

Efraim Lalevy Israel's Mossad is one of the world's most powerful intelligence agencies. Having served as its director, Efraim Halevy has witnessed the Middle East crisis from the inside-out. As...

Pauline W Chen A brilliant young transplant surgeon brings moral intensity and narrative drama to the most powerful and vexing questions of medicine and the human condition.When Pauline Chen began...

Ya'acov (Jack) Handeli A Greek Jew from Salonica Remembers First published June 1, 1993

Alex Levin Under the Yellow & Red Stars is a remarkable story of survival, coming of age and homecoming after years as a stranger in a strange land. Alex Levin...