Category: Autobiography

  In spring 2007, a street musician and recovering heroin addict James Bowen found a cat outside the door to his flat.  He assumed it belonged to someone and left it alone, only to find the cat still outside his door the next day.  James realized that the cat was a stray, was missing fur, and had a canine shaped

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In Farley Mowat’s autobiography The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be, written and published in 1954, readers are brought to the prairies of Saskatoon, Canada 1921 where Mowat spent most of his childhood, and a journey across them with his strange dog, Mutt.  Just after moving to Saskatoon, Mowat’s mother is approached by a boy with some ducklings he wishes to sell.

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, an autobiography by Maya Angelou, is a touching story about Maya’s coming of age as an insecure colored girl in southern Missouri during the 1930s and later in California during the 1940s. This woeful yet comical story takes you through every hardship and success she has gone through. Maya and her older brother

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