Life with Father
Childhood can be a confusing and difficult time but it must be even more stressful with celebrity paren'ts. On Father's Day, try one of these memoirs written by the child of a famous writer.
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Dream Catcher by Margaret Salinger
Salinger describes her lonely, isolated childhood with her father, reclusive author J.D. Salinger.
Experience by Martin Amis
Novelist Amis' memoir about his childhood and life with his famous father Kingsley Amis.
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Lies My Mother Never Told Me by Kaylie Jones
James Jones, author of From Here to Eternity, led a glamorus life surrounded by writers and Hollywood stars however the celebrity lifestyle was disguising a dysfunctional home life. In this memoir his daughter Kaylie confronts the alcoholism that has plagued her family.
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My Father is a Book by Janna Malamud Smith
Smith shares an intimate portrait of her father Bernard Malamud.
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My Father's Places by Aeronwy Thomas-Ellis
These are Aeronwy's recollections of her childhood in Wales with her paren'ts Caitlin and Dylan Thomas.
Reading My Father: a Memoir by Alexandra Styron
Novelist William Styron was a difficult man who frequently put his creative needs above those of his family. Although as a child Alexandra found him intimidating, this memoir documents her adult search to understand her father more clearly.
Shut Up He Explained: the Memoir of a Blacklisted Kid by Kate Lardner
Lardner writes about the difficulties she faced during the McCarthy era after her mother Frances Chaney and stepfather Ring Lardner Jr. were blacklisted.
Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller was Dad, the Apthrop was Home and Life was a Catch-22 by Erica Heller
Heller describes her eccentric childhood with novelist Joseph Heller.
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I have been celebrating my birthday without knowing the birthdays of my paren’ts. They don’t know a single date of their birthdays.