Autobiographies

by Michael J. Arlen, Clark Blaise (Introduction) National Book Award Winner, 1976 Grade Level: Ninth Grade to Adult Passage to Ararat echoes current headlines as Arlen examines the 1915 “ethnic cleansing” [genocide] of the Armenian race by the Turks.  In…

PEN Albrand Award Winner Grade Level: Eleventh Grade to Adult The author of four volumes of verse, Peter Balakian writes with the precision of a poet and the lyricism of a privileged suburban child in 1950s New Jersey. He is…