Published by Vintage Books, 1997, 643 pages As publisher of The Washington Post from 1963 to 1991, Katherine Graham oversaw some of the century’s major stories in the US, such as the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. This autobiography tells her story, the story of a woman initially unsure of herself, who was thrust into a …
Tag: autobiography
The Girl with Seven Names—Escape from North Korea: Lee Hyeon-seo (with David Jones)
Published by William Collins, 2015, 304 pages This is an extraordinary story about a young North Korean woman who managed to get out of the country. Lee Hyeon-seo was born in Hyesan, a North Korean town near the Chinese border. Her father was in the military, and the family was comfortably off, partly because her …
Continue reading The Girl with Seven Names—Escape from North Korea: Lee Hyeon-seo (with David Jones)
Talking About Books 