About Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Gotham (October 13, 2011) Donna Johnson’s remarkable story of being raised under the biggest gospel tent in the world, by David Terrell, one of the most famous evangelical ministers of the 1960s and 70s. Holy Ghost Girl is a compassionate, humorous exploration of faith, betrayal, […]
Elisabeth Eaves, author of Wanderlust, on tour June/July 2011
About Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Seal Press (June 7, 2011) Spanning 15 years of travel, beginning when she is a sophomore in college, Wanderlust documents Elisabeth Eaves’s insatiable hunger for the rush of the unfamiliar and the experience of encountering new people and cultures. Young and independent, she […]
Ned Zeman, author of The Rules of the Tunnel: My Brief Period of Madness, on tour August 2011
About The Rules of the Tunnel: My Brief Period of Madness Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Gotham (August 4, 2011) A journalist faces his toughest assignment yet: profiling himself. Zeman recounts his struggle with clinical depression in this high- octane, brutally funny memoir about mood disorders, memory, shock treatment therapy and the quest to get back […]
Margaret Robison, author of The Long Journey Home, on tour June 2011
About The Long Journey Home Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (May 17, 2011) First introduced to the world in her sons’ now-classic memoirs—Augusten Burroughs’s Running with Scissors and John Elder Robison’s Look Me in the Eye—Margaret Robison now tells her own haunting and lyrical story. A poet and teacher by profession, Robison describes her Southern […]
Lee Kravitz, author of Unfinished Business, on tour May/June 2011
About Unfinished Business: One Man’s Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (May 24, 2011) After losing his job, Lee Kravitz – a man who had always worked too hard, too long, and too intensely – took stock of his life and realized just how disconnected he […]
Sarah Sentilles, author of Breaking Up with God: A Love Story, on tour May/June 2011
About Breaking Up with God: A Love Story Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: HarperOne (June 7, 2011) In the tradition of Barbara Brown Taylor and Sue Monk Kidd, Sarah Sentilles offers a poignant, beautifully wrought memoir of her personal crisis of faith. Sentilles was on the way to becoming a priest when she ultimately faced the truth: […]
Craig Robinson, author of A Game of Character, on tour May/June 2011
About A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago’s Southside to the Ivy League and Beyond Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Gotham (May 3, 2011) This inspirational memoir by Craig Robinson pays tribute to his parents, his coaches, and the lessons his experiences have taught him. Foreword by Marian Robinson When he stepped into history’s […]
Gail Caldwell, author of Let’s Take the Long Way Home, on tour August 2011
About Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (August 9, 2011) It’s an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.” So begins this gorgeous memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner Gail […]
Simon Pegg, author of Nerd Do Well, on tour June 2011
About Nerd Do Well The unique life story of one of the most talented and inventive comedians, star of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Star Trek. Zombies in North London, death cults in the West Country, the engineering deck of the Enterprise: actor, comedian, writer and self-proclaimed supergeek Simon Pegg has been ploughing […]
Marshall Ulrich, author of Running on Empty, on tour April/May 2011
About Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner’s Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across America Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Avery (April 14, 2011) The ultimate endurance athlete, Marshall Ulrich has run more than 100 foot races averaging over 100 miles each, completed 12 expedition-length adventure races, and ascended the Seven Summits – including Mount […]