Margaret Ferris' family found a manuscript of hers called "A Place in My Heart" and fulfilled her dream of becoming a published author after her death.

"Where I am in my life is my feet are so firmly planted in the ground you cannot knock me over," Chelsea Handler tells Newsweek.

Courtesy of ★★★★★ Writing a review on Julia Child’s autobiography is quite challenging and stressful, not only because she is ...

An excerpt from the Book of the Dead, an ancient Egyptian funerary text, reads: O my heart which I had from my mother! which I had from my mother! O my heart of my different ages! Don’t stand up ...

The people I met there shaped me into the mother I am today, with old-fashioned values and a pantry room full of southern cooking recipe books ... I took a piece of my heart with me to America.

My grandmother was a colored girl born in Birmingham, Alabama. I can imagine that she was a hard-headed, 'talking girl,' like me. But she was married at 19, and migrated past the Mason-Dixon line to ...

With Baltic shows growing bigger and bolder and producers looking for more international collaborators, local creators reach ...

Kelly Andrew is back and ready to make us shiver with her new book that will not only shock you, but also make you wonder what else she has planned. As always, Kelly has found a way to grip us with a ...

Tariq Trotter’s 2023 memoir about growing up in Philadelphia will be the focus of the Free Library’s all-city reading program.

The actor and comedian has one child, Alice, with his late wife Michelle McNamara Patton Oswalt is keeping the memory of his ...

Obtain from the Heart of Jesus (here make your request). Teach me to allow Jesus to penetrate and possess my whole being so completely that my life, too, may radiate His light and love to others.

Memoirs, novels, and picture books that offer words of wisdom, encouragement, and solidarity amid challenging times.