My autobiography titles list

When we at Why Not Bookswere considering titles for the memoirs of the late Carolyn Goodman, mother of slain civil rights worker Andrew Goodman and a civil rights icon herself, we harkened back to a particular story she told:

When my youngest son David was seven years old, he came running home from school one day, breathless with excitement.

In his hands he held a large piece of construction paper smothered in assorted colors, lines, shapes, and squiggles. In the eyes of a seven-year-old, it was a creation of unmatched brilliance, Monet and Degas and O&#;Keeffe all rolled into one.

My autobiography titles list of books

In fact, that&#;s quite literally what it looked like. With the flamboyance only a true artist can exude, David boomed into our Upper West Side apartment, raised his magnum opus, and proudly declared, &#;Mom, come here! Look at my mantelpiece!&#;

 A masterpiece is essentially the product of another&#;s estimation.

Someone else reviews your life&#;s work and pronounces judgment. But a mantelpiece