D&D Bib Narratives

Death and Dying, Life and Living Narratives/Autobiographical and Fiction

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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.

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

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.

Dyer, J. (1996). In a tangled wood: An Alzheimer’s Journey. Dallas: Southern Methodist University.

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.

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)

Horner, J. (1982). That time of year: A chronicle of life in a nursing home. The University of Massachusetts Press.

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)

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

Levine, J. (2004). Do you remember me? A father, a daughter, and a search for self. Waterville, Maine: Thorndike Press. (Alzheimers)

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)

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.