Narratives/Memoirs/Autobiographical Accounts/Fictional Treatments

Albom, Mitch.  Tuesdays with Morrie:  An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson.  1997. (ALS) LD571 .B418 S383 1997.

Altemus, B.  The Gift of Pain:  Transforming Hurt into Healing:  Stories of Inspiration and Hope.  N. Y., NY:  Perigee, 2003.

Armstrong, Lance and Sally Jenkins.  It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life.  2001 (testicular cancer)

Barthelme, William.  Lessons from the Angel of Death.  2000 (esophagial cancer).  http://www.eccafe.org/sto/wbartholome/lessons.html

Barton, Betsey.  And Now To Live Again.  1944. (16 year old whose back was broken in a car accident)

Bauby, Jean-Dominique  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.  1997.  ("Locked-in Syndrome")

Berry, Mary Ellen and Carmen Renee Berry.  Reawakening to Life:  Renewal After a Husband's Death.  2002.

Blauner, Susan Rose.  How I Stayed Alive when My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me:  One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention.  2002. (Suicide Prevention)  RC569 .B585 2002

Burack-Weiss, Ann.  The Caregiver's Tale:  Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life. N.Y.: Columbia, 2006.

Cohen, Richard M.  Blindsided:  Lifting a Life Above Illness.  A Reluctant Memoir.  2004 (Multiple Sclerosis AND Colon Cancer)

Collins, Judy.  Sanity and Grace:  A Journey of Suicide, Survival, and Strength.  2003 (Surviving the loss of her son to suicide)

DeBaggio, Thomas.  Losing My Mind:  An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's.  2002.

DeBeauvoir, Simone.  A Very Easy Death.  1985 (Caregiving for mother dying of cancer)

DeFord, Frank.  Alex: The Life of a Child.  1983 (Cystic Fibrosis)  PQ2603 .E362 M613 1973

Didion, Joan.  The Year of Magical Thinking.  2005.

Estess, Jenifer as told to Valerie Estess.  Tales from the Bed: On Living, Dying and Having it All:  A Memoir.  2004 (ALS)

Fadiman, Anne.  The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down:  A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures.  1997.

Frank, Arthur W.  The Wounded Storyteller:  Body, Illness, and Ethics.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Friesen, Lynette.  After Goodbye: A Daughter's Story of Grief and Promise.  2005.

Fuchs, Elinor.  Making an Exit: A Mother-Daughter Drama with Machine Tools, Alzheimer's, and Laughter.  2005.

Glacel, Barbara Pate.  Hitting the Wall: Memoir of a Cancer Journey.  2001 (breast cancer)

Glick, Liz and Dan Zegart.  Your Father's Voice:  Letters for Emmy about Life with Jeremy -- and Without Him After 9/11.  2004.

Goss, Robert F. and Dennis Klass.  Dead but Not Lost:  Grief Narratives in Religious Traditions.  AltaMira Press.  2005.  BL504. G67

Grealy, Lucy.  Autobiography of a Face.  (Aftermath of Jaw Cancer)

Gunther, John. Death Be Not Proud.  Harper Perennial 1965. (brain tumor)  CT275 .G855 A3 1966.

Hall, Doris and Ken.  Go Out and Live: A 27-Year Journey of Change.  Doris and Ken Hall, 2003 (cancer)

Henry, DeWitt, ed..  Sorrow's Company:  Writers on Loss and Grief.  Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.

Housden, Maria.  Hannah's Gift:  Lessons from a Life Fully Lived.  2002 (cancer)

Kadohata, Cynthia.  Kira-Kira.  2004.  (novel about a Japanese American girl who loses a sister to lymphoma)

Kleinman, A. The Illness Narratives:  Suffering, Healing and the Human Condition.  Perseus, 1988.

Korda, Michael.  Man to Man:  Surviving Prostate Cancer.  1996.  (Prostate Cancer)

Livingston, Gordon.  Only Spring:  On Mourning the Death of My Son.  1995.  (one Suicide; one Leukemia)

Lorde, Audre.  The Cancer Journals.  1980 ( Breast Cancer)  RC 280. B8 L58 1987

McCrum, Robert.  My Year Off: Recovering Life After a Stroke.  1998.  (Stroke)

Monette, Paul.  Halfway Home.  1991 (Fictional memoir of brother with AIDS)

Nielsen, Dr. Jerri with Maryanne Vollers.  Ice Bound:  A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole.  2001. (Breast Cancer)  RC280 .B8 N54 2001

Nouwen, Henri J. M.  Beyond the Mirror:  Reflections on Death and Life.  1990. (Car accident))

Patchett, Ann.  Truth and Beauty: A Friendship. 2004 (Friendship with Lucy Grealy, see above)

Pierce, Charles.  Hard to Forget.  Random House, 1999.  Personal narrative

Propp, Karen.  In Sickness & In Health:  A Love Story.  2002 (Husband with Prostate Cancer)

Roberts, Barbara K.  Death Without Denial; Grief Without Apology: A Guide for Facing Death and Loss.  2002 (Oregon governor; husband with prostate cancer and then lung cancer)

Rose, Larry.  Show Me The Way to Go Home.  Elder Books, 1996.  Personal narrative.

Schmidt, Laura and Joe Pizzarello.  A Good Death: A Couple's Journey. 2004 (Pancreatic Cancer)

Schwartz, Morrie.  Morrie: In His Own Words.  Morrie Schwartz, 1996.  (ALS)

Shames, Laurence and Peter Barton.   Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived.  Rodale, 2003.  (Stomach cancer)

Stepanek, Mattie J. T. Journey Through Heartsongs. 2001 (Muscular Dystrophy)

Stout, Janis P. Coming out of War: Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars. U Alabama. 2005.

Weisman, Jamie.  As I Live and Breathe: Notes of a Patient-Doctor.  2002.  (Asthma)

Wiltshire, Susan.  Seasons of Grief and Grace: A Sister's Story of AIDS. 1995.