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In the Life Writing Series, Wilfrid Laurier University Press publishes life writing and new life-writing criticism and theory in order to promote autobiographical accounts, diaries, letters, and testimonials written and/or told by women and men whose political, literary, or philosophical purposes are central to their lives. The Series features accounts written in English, or translated into English from French or the languages of the First Nations, or any of the languages of immigration to Canada.
From its inception, Life Writing has aimed to foreground the stories of those who may never have imagined themselves as writers or as people with lives worthy of being (re)told. Its readership has expanded to include scholars, youth, and avid general readers both in Canada and abroad. The Series hopes to continue its work as a leading publisher of life writing of all kinds, as an imprint that aims for both broad representation and scholarly excellence, and as a tool for both historical and autobiographical research.
As its mandate stipulates, the Series privileges those individuals and communities whose stories may not, under normal circumstances, find a welcoming home with a publisher. Life Writing also publishes original theoretical investigations about life writing, as long as they are not limited to one author or text.
Series editor:
Marlene Kadar, Humanities Division, York University
Submit manuscripts to
Lisa Quinn
Acquisitions Editor
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
75 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON
Canada N2L 3C5
Phone: 519-884-0710 ext. 2843
Fax: 519-725-1399
Email: quinn@press.wlu.ca
Books in the Life Writing Series
- Where I Come From: ,
Vijay Agnew - The Life Writings of Mary Baker McQuesten: Victorian Matriarch,
Mary J. Anderson ,editor - Be Good, Sweet Maid: The Trials of Dorothy Joudrie,
Audrey Andrews - Seven Eggs Today: The Diaries of Mary Armstrong, 1859 and 1869,
Jackson Webster Armstrong - Unheard Of: Memoirs of a Canadian Composer,
John Beckwith - I Have a Story to Tell You: ,
Seemah C. Berson ,editor - Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica,
Yvonne Shorter Brown - Memoirs from Away: A New Found Land Girlhood,
Helen M. Buss / Margaret Clarke - Working in Women’s Archives: Researching Women’s Private Literature and Archival Documents,
Marlene Kadar ,editor , and Helen M. Buss,editor - Repossessing the World: Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women,
Helen M. Buss - Not the Whole Story: Challenging the Single Mother Narrative,
Lea Caragata ,editor , and Judit Alcalde,editor - Bearing Witness: Living with Ovarian Cancer,
Kathryn Carter ,editor , and Laurie Elit,editor - Pursuing Giraffe: A 1950s Adventure,
Anne Innis Dagg - Leaving Fundamentalism: Personal Stories,
G. Elijah Dann ,editor - Incorrigible: ,
Velma Demerson - The Queen of Peace Room: ,
Magie Dominic - The Surprise of My Life: An Autobiography,
Claire Drainie Taylor - Burdens of Proof: Faith, Doubt, and Identity in Autobiography,
Susanna Egan - China Diary: The Life of Mary Austin Endicott,
Shirley Jane Endicott - 163256: A Memoir of Resistance,
Michael Englishman - The Wartime Letters of Leslie and Cecil Frost, 1915-1919: ,
R.B. Fleming ,editor - Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted: Surviving in Nazi Germany and Communist East Germany,
Carolyn Gammon , and Christiane Hemker - The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger: ,
Carolyn Gammon , and Israel Unger - Becoming My Mother’s Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal,
Erika Gottlieb - We All Giggled: A Bourgeois Family Memoir,
Thomas O. Hueglin - Watermelon Syrup: A Novel,
Annie Jacobsen , Jane Finlay-Young, and Di Brandt - Tracing the Autobiographical: ,
Marlene Kadar ,editor , Linda Warley,editor ,, Jeanne Perreault,editor , and Susanna Egan,editor - Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, and Translation,
Eva C. Karpinski - Chasing the Comet: A Scottish-Canadian Life,
Patricia Koretchuk - “I Want to Join Your Club”: Letters from Rural Children, 1900-1920,
Norah L. Lewis ,editor - Dear Editor and Friends: Letters from Rural Women of the North-West, 1900-1920,
Norah L. Lewis ,editor - The Water Lily Pond: A Village Girl’s Journey in Maoist China,
Han Z. Li - Love and War in London: A Woman’s Diary 1939-1942,
Robert W. Malcolmson ,editor , and Olivia Cockett - Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Explorations in Canadian Women's Archives,
Linda M. Morra ,editor , and Jessica Schagerl,editor - Broad Is the Way: Stories from Mayerthorpe,
Margaret Norquay - And Peace Never Came: ,
Elisabeth M. Raab - Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions,
Julie Rak ,editor - Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market,
Julie Rak - Accident of Fate: A Personal Account, 1938–1945,
Imre Rochlitz , and Joseph Rochlitz - The Curtain: Witness and Memory in Wartime Holland,
Henry G. Schogt - The Memory of Water,
Allen Smutylo - Haven’t Any News: Ruby’s Letters from the Fifties,
Edna Staebler ,editor ,with an afterword by Marlene Kadar - Food That Really Schmecks: ,
Edna Staebler - Marian Engel’s Notebooks: “Ah, mon cahier, écoute...”,
Christl Verduyn ,editor - Must Write: Edna Staebler’s Diaries,
Christl Verduyn ,editor , and Edna Staebler - The Life and Letters of Annie Leake Tuttle: Working for the Best,
Marilyn Färdig Whiteley ,editor - Teaching Places: ,
Audrey J. Whitson - Just a Larger Family: Letters of Marie Williamson from the Canadian Home Front,1940–1944,
Mary F. Williamson ,editor , and Tom Sharp,editor - Through the Hitler Line: Memoirs of an Infantry Chaplain,
Laurence F. Wilmot, MC - The Green Sofa: ,
Natascha Würzbach , and Raleigh Whitinger,translator