Personal Memoirs

The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir

A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--and a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of t he Great Depression

Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

The Memory Chalet:

After the Falls: Coming of Age in the Sixties

Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man's Escape from the Crowd

Un Amico Italiano: Eat, Pray, Love in Rome

Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea

Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens

A School for My Village: A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka

Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps

Just Don't Fall: A Hilariously True Story of Childhood, Cancer, Amputation, Romantic Yearning, Truth, and Olympic Greatness