The Art of Memoir: Bill Clegg on Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, Jill Bialosky on History of a Suicide, and Kelle Groom on I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl
Sunday, Nov. 20, 3:00 p.m., Room 3209 (Building 3, 2nd Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Bill Clegg
Bill Clegg's memoir of addiction and recovery, Portrait of an Addict As A Young Man (Little, Brown, $23.99), chronicles his descent from a fairy-tale world into monstrous hell. Clegg, a rising publishing industry star, goes on a two-month crack binge in which he smokes away his literary agency partnership, his $70,000 bank account, and 40 pounds. "A skillfully conjured, slow-motion train wreck from which it's impossible to look away," says the Globe and Mail.
Jill Bialosky
The death of novelist, poet, and editor Jill Bialosky's sister, Kim, at age 21 in 1990 was one grim loss among many, as chronicled in her memoir, History of a Suicide (Atria $24.00). When Bialosky's son reaches adolescence, she realizes she has to confront the wrenching facts and persistent mysteries of Kim's life and death. The result is an investigative family history grounded in research into the act of self-annihilation.
Kelle Groom
In her memoir, I Wore the Ocean In the Shape of A Girl (Free Press, $23.00), Kelle Groom writes with astonishing and unforgettable lyrical power about her young life as an addict — and how, at 19, she became pregnant with the son that she would end up losing twice — first to adoption, and then, only a year later, to cancer. Groom is the author of three poetry collections.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 3209 (Building 3, 2nd Floor)
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