Diane Scharper

Diane Scharper is the author of Radiant Prayer Poems and other books. She teaches memoir and poetry for the Johns Hopkins University Osher Program.

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New memoirs trace identity, exile and exclusion in Germany, Latvia and India

Book Review: Inara Verzemnieks' story is similar to Nina Willner's: Both present history through the eyes of those tyrannized by it. Both center on World War II and feature two sisters — one who stays with her parents enduring extreme deprivation and the other who leaves the homeland for a better life in the U.S.

Staying power: a poet’s place in God’s agenda

Book Review: Czeslaw Milosz did not consider himself to be a Catholic poet. But in his later years, he noted that all of his thinking had a religious aspect, and in that sense, he said, his poetry was also religious

Armenia, Syria, the United States: stories of freedom

A memoir of loss and the natural world

So little is known of St. Francis, biography is a fiction

Latin, immigration, science anchor memoirs

Journalist digs into the 1912 lynching in her family history

Stories of the lives and deaths of writers

No easy answers in the miracle of life

Cardenal's memoir presents a man of great faith, humility

Flair for details, spiritual insight enliven collection

Biography filled with detail puts St. Augustine in perspective

Three memoirs seek transformation out of illness, addiction, loss

Missoula is unpolished but still a must-read

Earthly gossip and heavenly voices

Hidden children, hidden identities

'Jesuit DNA' offers hope, author argues

Three contrarians with the courage of their convictions

Memoir at its best with practical advice to battered women

Tenacity, poetry, irony in three memoirs

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