Memoirs seem to be in vogue these days. Among them are books by Sean Connery, Augusten Burroughs and Rick Bragg.
Sean Connery will offer the first public glimpse of his memoirs, “Being a Scot,” on Aug. 25, his 78th birthday, at this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival. The former James Bond star will share his views on “many aspects of Scottish culture and life.”
What do you do when your father is a perfect monster? The proposition is put to the test in Augusten Burroughs’ “A Wolf at the Table,” a harrowing companion to “Running With Scissors,” his bestselling memoir about family dysfunction.
Rick Bragg’s father was no monster; Charles Bragg was just a charming rascal, dead at 40 from TB and too much booze. Bragg describes him in “The Prince of Frogtown” as a “hybrid hillbilly” who “lost his looks, drank his paychecks, wrecked his old cars and stiffed the Tennessee Valley Electric until all they would give us is free dark.”
In “The Bishop’s Daughter: A Memoir,” Honor Moore writes about her father, Paul Moore Jr., who turned away from his privileged background to become an Episcopal priest and the bishop of New York, as well as a crusader for social justice in the ’60s and ’70s, all the while struggling with his homosexuality.
Christopher Ciccone, 47, is writing a memoir about his sister. “Life With My Sister Madonna” is to be released in mid-July.
Broadway star Patti LuPone, known for her Tony Award-winning roles in “Gypsy” and “Evita,” is working on a memoir, tentatively scheduled to be released in 2010. The book is currently untitled.
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