Growing up in a kitchen full of women inspired Donal Ryan's new book NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Donal Ryan on where the idea for his new book The Queen of Dirt Island came from and ...

In the book, Hurley, who played college ball at Seton Hall, is expected to cover a host of topics including: his childhood growing up in the now-famous Hurley household with his father Bob Hurley ...

Mantel's book Learning to Talk, now published for the first time in the U.S., has a decidedly smaller scope — the short stories collected in it focus on young characters growing up in mid-20th ...

The founder of an organisation set up to help young carers writes a children's book based on her experiences looking after her ill brother from when she was six years old.

Kendrick Perkins, the 27th pick in the NBA draft, opted out of college to ensure he earned enough money to take care of his grandparents, who had raised him from the age of 5.

Adam Nimoy tells the story of growing up, growing apart, and then back together again with his father in the memoir, The Most Human: Reconciling with my father, Leonard Nimoy. I recently talked ...

Canadians raised in the 1940s remember the signs being everywhere. ‘Scarlet fever.' ‘Diphtheria.’ Do not enter. Do not touch. But we endured – and we can do it again ...

Khashayar Khabushani’s heartbreaking debut, I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN (Hogarth, 222 pp., $27), is narrated by the young son of Iranian immigrants in California’s San Fernando Valley.