A memoir (from the French: mémoire from the Latin memoria, meaning "memory", or a reminiscence), is a literary genre, forming a subclass of autobiography – although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are almost interchangeable in modern parlance. Memoir is autobiographical writing, but not all autobiographical writing follows the criteria for memoir set out below. The author of a memoir may be referred to as a memoirist.

The nature of memoirs

Memoirs are structured differently from formal autobiographies which tend to encompass the writer's entire life span, focusing on the development of his or her personality. The chronological scope of a memoir is determined by the work's context and is therefore more focused and flexible than the traditional arc of birth to childhood to old age as found in an autobiography.

Memoirs tended to be written by politicians or people in court society, later joined by military leaders and businessmen, and often dealt exclusively with the writer's careers rather than their private life. Historically, memoirs have dealt with public matters, rather than personal. Many older memoirs contain little or no information about the writer, and are almost entirely concerned with other people. Modern expectations have changed this, even for heads of government. Like most autobiographies, memoirs are generally written from the first person point of view.

Gore Vidal, in his own memoir Palimpsest, gave a personal definition: "a memoir is how one remembers one's own life, while an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double-checked." It is more about what can be gleaned from a section of one's life than about the outcome of the life as a whole.

Humorist Will Rogers put it a little more pithily: "Memoirs means when you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad ones you did do."

Contemporary practices of writing memoirs for recreational, family or therapeutic purposes are sometimes referred to as legacy writing or personal history. Such products may be assisted by professional or amateur genealogists, or by ghostwriters.

Types of memoir

The rhetor Libanius (ca. 314 – ca. 394) framed his life memoir as one of his orations, not the public kind, but the literary kind that would be read aloud in the privacy of one's study. This kind of memoir refers to the idea in ancient Greece and Rome, that memoirs were like "memos," pieces of unfinished and unpublished writing which a writer might use as a memory aid to make a more finished document later on.

In modern times, memoirs have often been written by politicians or military leaders as a way to record and publish their own account of their public exploits.

Some contemporary women writers have combined the memoir form with historical non-fiction writing. Examples include Jung Chang's Wild Swans, Heda Margolius Kovaly's Under a Cruel Star and Helen Epstein's Where She Came From.

Other professional contemporary writers such as David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs have specialized in writing amusing essays in the form of memoirs. To some extent this is an extension of the tradition of newspaper columnists' regular accounts of their lives. (Cf. the work of James Thurber which often has a strong memoir-like content).

Memoir collection projects

With the expressed interest of preserving history through the eyes of those who lived it, there are many organizations that work with potential memoirists to bring their work to fruition. The Veterans History Project, for example, compiles the memoirs of those who have served in a branch of the US Military - especially those who have seen active combat. Many public libraries give Memoir Writing classes that are geared towards senior citizens and some autobiographical service companies periodically publish memoir collections featuring clients that participated at no cost.

See also

Autobiography

List of autobiographies

Diary

Fake memoirs

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References

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Name	Norman Ollestad
Birthdate	May 30, 1967
Occupation	Writer
Notableworks	& Driftwood
Influences	Milan Kundera, Lucian Freud, Pablo Picasso, Jhumpa Lahiri, Cormac McCarthy, Mavis Gallant, Ernest Hemingway, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious monk, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Kelly Slater, Jean-Luc Godard, Clint Eastwood, Bernardo Bertolucci, Gus Van Sant, Richard Avedon, Gustav Klimt, Woody Allen, Helmut Newton, Ingmar Bergman, Jim Harrison, Russell Banks
Website	http://www.crazyforthestorm.com/

Norman Ollestad (born May 30, 1967) is an American author of contemporary fiction and non-fiction. Ollestad is also an avid surfer and skier. On February 19, 1979, he was in a plane crash with his father; his father's girlfriend, Sandra; and the pilot of a chartered Cessna. Sandra was 30. Norman's father was 43. Norman was 11. By the end of the 9-hour ordeal, Norman was the only survivor. He wrote about the tragedy in his 2009 bestseller Crazy For The Storm: A Memoir Of Survival. He has also written a novel, 'Driftwood', which was released in 2006.

Early life

Ollestad was born to Norman and Doris Ollestad. He was raised in the raw and uninhibited surfside community of Topanga Beach, in Malibu, California. He was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing at a very young age by the father he idolized. Often paralyzed by fear, young Norman resented losing his childhood to his father’s reckless and demanding adventures, even as he began to reap the rewards of his training. He rode his first wave at just a year old, via a makeshift papoose strapped to his father’s back. Years later he would prove a talented and competitive hockey player and skier, winning the Southern California Slalom Skiing Championship at age 11.

Then, in February 1979, a chartered Cessna carrying 11-year old Norman, his father, his father’s girlfriend and the pilot, crashed into Southern California’s San Gabriel Mountains. Norman’s father—a man who was both his coach and hero -— was dead, his girlfriend soon to follow. Suspended at over 8,000 feet and engulfed in a blizzard, the grief-stricken boy descended the icy mountain alone. Putting his father’s passionate lessons to work, Norman defied the elements and made it through alive—the sole survivor of the crash. As he told the Los Angeles Times after his ordeal, “My dad told me never to give up.”

As an adolescent, and young adult, Norman resumed the pursuit of the passions that fueled his father’s adventure-seeking nature. Traveling to St. Anton in the Austrian Alps, he re-discovered a love for fresh backcountry powder – an appreciation that had once been imposed upon him by his father. It was during his time living in European ski resorts that Ollestad decided to become a writer. He returned to Los Angeles and enrolled in UCLA Film School where he also studied creative writing.

In 2006 Ollestad began the process of returning to the painful memories of the event that claimed his father’s life in preparation for writing Crazy For The Storm. Returning to the steep mountainside of the crash site, Ollestad found pieces of wreckage, and reconnected with the family who gave him shelter after he emerged from his long struggle to safety.

Crazy For The Storm

Crazy For The Storm: A Memoir of Survival is Norman Ollestad's 2009 bestselling book. It's a memoir about survival and adventure, as told from the point of view of Norman as an 11-year-old boy growing up in Topanga Beach, CA.

Set in Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, the memoir captures the bohemian surf culture of Southern California and a boy’s conflicted feelings for his magnetic, larger-than-life father. The story recounts the exhilarating tests of skill that prepared Norman to become a surfer and ski champion—the same skills that ultimately saved his life.

As said in The Los Angeles Times, "The book alternates between a detailed account of the plane crash and Ollestad’s story of his parents’ busted marriage. Of particular interest is his charismatic, adrenaline-junkie father, whom the young Norman describes as a somewhat methodical, somewhat reckless “enchanter,” devotedly driving his son to early-morning hockey practices and faraway ski tournaments but also dragging him along to Mexico, where they wound up stranded in the jungle without food or money after fleeing bribe-seeking federales wielding guns."

Critical Reception

In June 2009, the memoir was released and quickly became one of the most talked about books of the summer. Norman cracked both the top ten bestseller lists for The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. Crazy For The Storm was also selected as Starbucks June book selection and iTunes picked it as one of the best summer reads. Most recently, it was chosen by Amazon as one of the 'Best Books of the Year...So Far'.

Film Adaptation

In early May 2009, Warner Bros. picked up the option to turn Crazy for the Storm into a major motion picture. No decisions seem to have been made yet on a director or screenwriter, nor on a cast.

His Father

Ollestad calls the Crazy For The Storm a tribute to his gregarious and charismatic father. Norman Ollestad Sr. had been a child actor, appearing in the movie Cheaper by the Dozen. Later he joined the FBI, but soon grew disillusioned with J. Edgar Hoover and wrote a book called Inside The FBI, which did not endear him to his former employers. He later retreated to the hippie enclave of Topanga Beach, at the south end of Malibu, where he surfed and worked as a lawyer.

Ollestad sketches life at Topanga as nearly idyllic: Surfing just outside the front door, naked people on the beach, a cluster of simple houses on the sand (now long gone, bulldozed to make way for movie-star mansions). The book Crazy for the Storm opens with a photo of his father taking Norman surfing, in a baby carrier.

It is his father who towers over the story, with his hunger for life and new experiences of all kinds, good and bad—pushing Norman, whom he dubs "Boy Wonder," into all sorts of situations that seem reckless now.

Adventures

Ollestad continues to travel far and wide to find un-crowded, high-quality waves. His latest adventures include mainland Mexico, Central America and atolls off Timor in Indonesia. Skiing remains an equal passion to surfing—taking his son, who is on the Mammoth Ski Team, into the wilderness when the powder is good.

Bibliography

Non-fiction

Crazy For The Storm: A Memoir Of Survival (2009)

Fiction

Driftwood (2006)

References

External links

Crazy For The Storm official site

Washington Post - Making It Down Alone

New York Times - A Tale of Family Life, Laced With Thrill Seeking, Adrenaline and Ambivalence

Los Angeles Times - Lessons Norman Ollestad's father taught him

CNN - A deadly plane crash, an amazing adventure

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Name	Matthew Shepard
Birth date	December 01, 1976
Birth place	Casper, Wyoming
Death date	October 12, 1998
Death place	Fort Collins, Colorado
Parents	Judy Peck and Dennis Shepard

Matthew Wayne Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming who was tortured and murdered near Laramie, Wyoming, in October 1998. He was attacked on the night of October 6–7, and died at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, on October 12 from severe head injuries.

During the trial, witnesses stated that Shepard was targeted because he was homosexual. Shepard's murder brought national and international attention to the issue of hate crime legislation at the state and federal levels.

Background

Shepard was born in Casper, Wyoming, the first of two sons born to Judy Peck and Dennis Shepard. His younger brother Logan was born in 1981. He attended Crest Hill Elementary School, Dean Morgan Junior High School, and Natrona County High School for his freshman through junior years. Saudi Aramco hired his father in the summer of 1994, and his parents subsequently resided at the Saudi Aramco Residential Camp in Dhahran. During that time, Shepard attended The American School in Switzerland (TASIS), from which he graduated in May 1995. Shepard then attended Catawba College in North Carolina and Casper College in Wyoming, before settling in Denver. Shepard became a first-year political science major at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, and was chosen as the student representative for the Wyoming Environmental Council. After Shepard said that he was gay, the two men robbed, pistol-whipped, and tortured him and tied him to a fence in a remote, rural area, leaving him to die. McKinney and Henderson also discovered his address and intended to burglarize his home. Still tied to the fence, Shepard was discovered 18 hours later by a cyclist, Aaron Kreifels, who initially mistook Shepard for a scarecrow. Shepard was in a coma.

Shepard had suffered fractures to the back of his head and in front of his right ear. He experienced severe brain-stem damage, which affected his body's ability to regulate heart rate, body temperature, and other vital functions. There were also about a dozen small lacerations around his head, face, and neck. His injuries were deemed too severe for doctors to operate. Shepard never regained consciousness and remained on full life support. While he lay in intensive care, candlelight vigils were held by the people of Laramie.

Shepard was pronounced dead at 12:53 a.m. on October 12, 1998, at Poudre Valley Hospital, in Fort Collins, Colorado. Police arrested McKinney and Henderson shortly thereafter, finding the bloody gun and Shepard's shoes and wallet in their truck.

Henderson and McKinney had tried to persuade their girlfriends to provide alibis.

Trial

At the trial, McKinney offered various rationales to justify his actions. He originally pled the gay panic defense, arguing that he and Henderson were driven to temporary insanity by alleged sexual advances by Shepard. At another point McKinney's lawyer stated that they had wanted only to rob Shepard and never intended to kill him. During the trial, Chastity Pasley and Kristen Price, girlfriends of McKinney and Henderson, testified that Henderson and McKinney both plotted beforehand to rob a gay man. It has also been suggested that McKinney and Henderson, both being of slight build, targeted Shepard, who was a very small man, and an easy target. Also, it was suggested at trial that the perpetrators knew Shepard from high school, and knew he was from a wealthy family. McKinney and Henderson went to the Fireside Lounge and selected Shepard after he arrived. McKinney alleged that Shepard asked them for a ride home. After befriending him, they took him to a remote area outside of Laramie where they robbed him, assaulted him severely, and tied him to a fence with a rope from McKinney's truck while Shepard pleaded for his life. Media reports often contained the graphic account of the pistol whipping and his fractured skull. It was reported that Shepard was beaten so brutally that his face was completely covered in blood, except where it had been partially washed clean by his tears. Both girlfriends also testified that neither McKinney nor Henderson were under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time.

Henderson pleaded guilty on April 5, 1999, and agreed to testify against McKinney to avoid the death penalty; he received two consecutive life sentences. The jury in McKinney's trial found him guilty of felony murder. As they began to deliberate on the death penalty, Shepard's parents brokered a deal, resulting in McKinney receiving two consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole.

Henderson and McKinney were incarcerated in the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins, later being transferred to other prisons because of overcrowding.

Hate crime legislation

Henderson and McKinney were not charged with a hate crime, because no Wyoming criminal statute provided for such a charge. The nature of Shepard's murder led to requests for new legislation addressing hate crime, urged particularly by those who believed that Shepard was targeted on the basis of his sexual orientation. Under then United States federal law and Wyoming state law, crimes committed on the basis of sexual orientation are not prosecutable as hate crimes.

In the following session of the Wyoming Legislature, a bill was introduced defining certain attacks motivated by victim identity as hate crimes, however the measure failed on a 30-30 tie in the Wyoming House of Representatives.

At the federal level, then-President Bill Clinton renewed attempts to extend federal hate crime legislation to include homosexual individuals, women, and people with disabilities. These efforts were rejected by the United States House of Representatives in 1999. In September 2000, both houses of Congress passed such legislation; however it was stripped out in conference committee.

On March 20, 2007, the Matthew Shepard Act () was introduced as federal bipartisan legislation in the U.S. Congress, sponsored by Democrat John Conyers with 171 co-sponsors. Shepard's parents were present at the introduction ceremony. The bill passed the House of Representatives on May 3, 2007. Similar legislation passed in the Senate on September 27, 2007 (), however then-President George W. Bush indicated he might veto the legislation if it reached his desk. The amendment was dropped by the Democratic leadership because of opposition from conservative groups and President George Bush, and due to the measure being attached to a defense bill there was a lack of support from antiwar Democrats.

On December 10, 2007, congressional powers attached bipartisan hate crimes legislation to a Department of Defense Authorization bill, though failed to get it passed. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, said she "is still committed to getting the Matthew Shepard Act passed." Pelosi planned to get the bill passed in early 2008 though did not succeed in that plan. Following his election as President, Barack Obama stated that he was committed to passing the Act.

The U.S. House of Representatives debated expansion of hate crimes legislation on April 29, 2009. During the debate, Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina called the "hate crime" labeling of Shepard's murder a "hoax". Shepard's mother was said to be in the House gallery when the congresswoman made this comment. Foxx later called her comments "a poor choice of words". The House passed the act, designated , by a vote of 249 to 175. The bill was introduced in the Senate on April 28 by Ted Kennedy, Patrick Leahy, and a bipartisan coalition; it had 43 cosponsors as of June 17, 2009. The Matthew Shepard Act was adopted as an amendment to S.1390 by a vote of 63-28 on July 15, 2009. On October 22, 2009, the act was passed by the Senate by a vote of 68-29. President Obama signed the measure into law on October 28, 2009.

Public reaction and aftermath

Romaine Patterson, a friend of Shepard's, organized a group of individuals who assembled in a circle around an anti-gay group wearing white robes and gigantic wings (resembling angels) that blocked the protesters. Police had to create a human barrier between the two protest groups. While the organization had no name in the initial demonstration, it has since been ascribed various titles, including 'Angels of Peace' and 'Angel Action'. The fence to which Shepard was tied and left to die became an impromptu shrine for visitors, who left notes, flowers, and other mementos. It has since been removed by the land owner.

The murder continued to attract public attention and media coverage long after the trial was over. There have been accusations of media bias in that the rape and murder of Jesse Dirkhising by two gay men less than a year later did not receive comparable coverage. Mainstream media have responded by pointing out that Dirkhising was the victim of a sex crime, while Shepard was the victim of a hate crime. When ABC 20/20 ran a story in 2004 suggesting that Shepard had been HIV positive and quoting claims by McKinney, Henderson and Kristen Price and the prosecutor in the case that the murder had not been motivated by Shepard's sexuality, but rather was a robbery gone violent amongst drug users (the suggestion being that Shepard was a heavy methamphetamine user), Other coverage focused on how these more recent statements contradicted those made at and near the trial.

Many musicians have written and recorded songs about the murder, including Sir Elton John, whose 2001 album Songs from the West Coast included "American Triangle" (originally titled "American Tragedy"), a song about Shepard's murder, Lady Gaga performed John Lennon's 'Imagine' at the 2009 HRC Dinner and changed the lyrics from "above us only sky" to "with only Matthew in the sky" and Melissa Etheridge, whose 1999 album "Breakdown" contained "Scarecrow", a song dedicated to Shepard and his family and friends. Three narrative films and a documentary were made about Shepard: The Laramie Project, The Matthew Shepard Story, Anatomy of a Hate Crime and Laramie Inside Out, and Moral Obligations, a fictionalized account of the night of the murder. The Laramie Project is also often performed as a play. The play involves recounts of interviews with citizens of the town of Laramie ranging from a few months after the attack to a few years after. The play is designed to display the town's reaction to the crime. Ten years later, The Laramie Project created a second play, based on interviews with members of the town, Shepard's mother, and his incarcerated murderer.

In the years following Shepard's death, his mother Judy has become a well-known advocate for LGBT rights, particularly issues relating to gay youth. She is a prime force behind the Matthew Shepard Foundation, which supports diversity and tolerance in youth organizations.

See also

Violence against LGBT people

References

Further reading

"The Laramie project" by Moises Kaufman

External links

The Matthew Shepard Foundation (official website)– founded by parents Judy and Dennis Shepard to "Replace hate with understanding, compassion, and acceptance through educational, outreach, and advocacy programs and by continuing to tell Matthew's story"

ABC News - 2004 Report on the Attack, a "Third Story", and the Trials

Criminal complaint against McKinney and Henderson

Website for biography "The Whole World Was Watching: Living In The Light of Matthew Shepard"

Matthew Shepard Resource Site at the University of Wyoming;

Matthew Shepard Online Resources

Barry Yeoman, A Mother Finds Her Voice, US Weekly

Laramie Inside Out Documentary Film

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Name	Gordon Pinsent
Birthdate	July 12, 1930
Birthplace	Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador
Spouse	Charmion King (1962-2007 - her death)
Yearsactive	1962 - Present
Geminiawards	Best Guest Actor - Series1989 Street Legal John Drainie Award1992 Best Guest Actor - Drama Series1996 Due South Earle Grey Award1997 Best Supporting Actor - Drama Series1999 Power Play Best Writing in a Drama Program or Miniseries1999 Win, Again!
Awards	Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor1980 Klondike Fever Genie Award for Best Actor1987 John and the Missus2007 Away from Her

Gordon Edward Pinsent, CC, FRSC (born July 12, 1930) is a Canadian television, theatre and film actor.

Biography

Early life

Pinsent, the youngest of six children, was born in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, the son of Flossie (born Cooper) and Stephen Arthur Pinsent, a papermill worker and cobbler. His mother was "quiet spoken" and a religious Anglican; the family was descended from immigrants from Kent and Devon in England. He was a self-described "awkward child" who suffered from rickets.

Pinsent began acting on stage in the 1940s at the age of 17. He soon took on roles in radio drama on the CBC, and later moved into television and film as well. In the early 1950s, he took a break from acting and joined the Canadian Army, serving for approximately four years as a Private in The Royal Canadian Regiment.

Career

During the early years of his career he appeared in Scarlett Hill but was best known for co-starring in the CBC children's series The Forest Rangers in the early 1960s. Later television roles have included the series Quentin Durgens, M.P., A Gift to Last (which he created), The Red Green Show, Due South, Wind at My Back and Power Play. The pilot episode of A Gift to Last was adapted for the stage by Walter Learning and Alden Nowlan and has become a perennial Canadian Christmas favourite in regional theatres across the country.

Pinsent's movie roles have included Lydia, The Rowdyman, Who Has Seen the Wind, John and the Missus, The Shipping News and Away from Her. He wrote the screenplays for The Rowdyman and John and the Missus. Perhaps his best known early film role was that of the President of the United States in the 1970 science fiction cult classic . He starred in a role called Horse Latitudes based upon Donald Crowhurst, now featured in Deep Water.

In 1979 he was made an officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1998. In 2006, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. On March 6, 2007, it was announced that Pinsent would receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.

On March 8, 2007, it was publicly announced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that Pinsent had accepted the appointment of Honorary Chairman of the "Building for the Future" fundraising campaign for The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum.

During the 2008 and 2010 summer periods of CBC Radio One, Pinsent presented a radio documentary series called The Late Show about the lives of notable deceased Canadians whom the producers believed deserved attention.

Most recently he had a guest starring role as Maurice Becker on the February 3, 2010 episode of Canadian television series, Republic of Doyle.

He became something of a viral sensation when a comedic segment of him reading dramatically from Justin Bieber's autobiography on This Hour Has 22 Minutes went viral on October 20, 2010.

Personal life

Pinsent married actress Charmion King in 1962, and they were married until her death on January 6, 2007 from emphysema; their daughter, Leah Pinsent, is an actress. Pinsent also has two children from an earlier marriage.

His autobiography, By the Way, was published in 1992. He has also written a number of stage plays and television screenplays. In 1997 he won the Earl Grey Award.

Health

On the evening of September 11, 2006, at the Toronto International Film Festival, Pinsent collapsed while attending an after party, celebrating the opening of Away from Her, at Harry Rosen's on Bloor Street. He was conscious as he was transferred into an ambulance. He was diagnosed as dehydrated and stayed in the hospital overnight before returning home to rest.

Awards

Pinsent is a Companion of The Order of Canada and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada.

Pinsent received an LL.D from the University of Prince Edward Island in 1975, and Honorary doctorates from Queen's University, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Lakehead University (2008).

It was on July 12, 2005, in his hometown of Grand Falls-Windsor, and in honor of his 75th birthday, that the Arts & Culture Centre was renamed The Gordon Pinsent Centre for the Arts.

On September 25, 2008 at a “Newfoundland and Labrador Inspired Evening” at The Windsor Arms Hotel in Toronto, the Company Theatre presented Mr. Pinsent with the inaugural Gordon Pinsent Award of Excellence.

Filmography

Television series

1962-1964: Scarlett Hill

1963-1965: The Forest Rangers

1966-1969: Quentin Durgens, M.P.

1969: Adventures in Rainbow Country

1974: The Play's The Thing

1978-1979: A Gift to Last

1989: Babar

1991-2006: The Red Green Show

1993 Street Legal

1994-1999: Due South

1996: Wind at My Back

1998: Made in Canada

1998-2000: Power Play

2009: Corner Gas

2010: Republic of Doyle (as Maurice Becker)

2010: Babar and the Adventures of Badou

Television specials and movies

1969: Quarantined (TV movie)

1972: Incident on a Dark Street

1979: The Suicide's Wife

1981:

1982: The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd

1984: A Case of Libel

1988: Two Men

1993: Bonds of Love

1993: In the Eyes of the Stranger

1995: A Vow to Kill

1996: A Holiday for Love

1999: Win, Again!

2000: Jewel On The Hill (narrator)

2001: Blind Terror

2002: The New Beachcombers

2003: Fallen Angel (TV movie)

2003: Hemingway vs Callaghan

2004: H20: The Last Prime Minister

2006: Yours, Al

2010: The Pillars of the Earth

Movies

1964: Lydia

1968: The Thomas Crown Affair

1969:

1972: Blacula

1972: Chandler

1972: The Rowdyman

1974: The Heatwave Lasted Four Days

1974: Newman's Law

1974: Only God Knows

1976: Blackwood (narrator)

1977: Who Has Seen the Wind

1980: Klondike Fever

1981: Silence of the North

1987: John and the Missus

1989: (voice)

1990: Blood Clan

1997: Pale Saints

1997: Pippi Longstocking (voice)

1999: The Old Man and the Sea (voice)

2001: The Shipping News

2002: A Promise

2003: Nothing

2003: Snow on the Skeleton Key

2004: The Good Shepherd

2004: Saint Ralph

2006: Away from Her

2006: The Sparky Book (voice)

References

External links

Canadian Film Encyclopedia [A publication of The Film Reference Library/a division of the Toronto International Film Festival Group]

Northern Stars: Gordon Pinsent

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Name	Dani Shapiro
Title	Dani Shapiro
Birthdate	April 10, 1962
Birthplace	New York City, NY, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	American
Spouse	Michael Maren
Children	1

Dani Shapiro is the author of five novels and the best-selling memoir Slow Motion. She has also written for magazines such as The New Yorker, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, and ELLE.

Shapiro went to high school at The Pingry School, a prep school in New Jersey. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she was influenced by having Grace Paley as a teacher. Shapiro has also written for the screen, having adapted Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince for HBO in 1999. In 2000, she co-wrote a screenplay based on her memoir, Slow Motion, with her husband, journalist and screenwriter Michael Maren. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Wesleyan University and was previously an instructor at The New School and Columbia University.

Books

Playing with Fire (1990)

Fugitive Blue (1993)

Picturing the Wreck (1996)

Slow Motion: A True Story (1998)

Family History (2003)

Black & White (2007)

Devotion (2010)

References

External links

Official Website

Internet Movie Database Bio

Litchfield County Writers Project

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