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The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty

10 best books like The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty (Carolyn G. Heilbrun): Shiksa Goddess, A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot, Road Song: A Memoir, Letters on an Elk Hunt by a Woman Homesteader, Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures, Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World, Daybook: The Journal of an Artist, First Comes Love, My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness, Plant Dreaming Deep

Shiksa Goddess
AuthorWendy Wasserstein
ISBN0375726039
Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York’s cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects thirty-five of her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathic essays–all written when she...
A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot
AuthorMary Walton
ISBN0230611753
Alice Paul began her life as a studious girl from a strict Quaker family in New Jersey. In 1907, a scholarship took her to England, where she developed a passionate devotion to the suffrage movement. Upon her return to the United States, Alice became the leader of the militant wing of the American suffrage...
Road Song: A Memoir
AuthorNatalie Kusz
ISBN0060974257
Natalie Kusz has written a fine, strong, unusual memoir about her loving, eccentric family, their life in Alaska, and the accident that maimed her face. One of the things that sets Road Song apart is that the latter, a truly horrific event early in the story, is just one of the book's compelling threads,...
Letters on an Elk Hunt by a Woman Homesteader
AuthorElinore Pruitt Stewart
ISBN0803291124
A continuation of Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Letters on an Elk Hunt is set in the same corner of southwestern Wyoming, the time is the fall of 1914, and (despite the title) Mrs. Stewart is far less concerned with elk hunting than with people—old friends and new acquaintances—and with the land...
Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures
AuthorLouise Rafkin
ISBN0452280818
After earning an M.A. in Comparative Literature, Louise Ratkin, facing a career choice, took the road less traveled. She became a housecleaner. The money was better than teaching, the lifestyle intriguing for someone with an insatiable curiosity about her fellow human beings. And while she quickly...
Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World
AuthorMary Pipher
ISBN1594488614
In this thoughtful and inspiring memoir, the author of the New York Times bestsellers Reviving Ophelia, The Shelter of Each Other, and Another Country explores her personal search for understanding, tranquility, and respect through her work as a psychologist and seeker.

“There are three...
Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
AuthorAnne Truitt
ISBN0140069631
Renowned American artist Anne Truitt kept this illuminating and inspiring journal over a period of seven years, determined to come to terms with the forces that shaped her art and life. Her range of sensitivity—moral, intellectual, sensual, emotional, and spiritual— is remarkably broad. She...
First Comes Love
AuthorMarion Winik
ISBN0679765557
  A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

   When Marion Winik fell in love with Tony Heubach during a wild Mardi Gras in New Orleans, her friends shook their heads.  For starters, she was straight and he was gay.  But Marion and Tony's impossible love turned out to be true enough to produce...
My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness
AuthorPatricia Raybon
ISBN0140244360
I picked this book up on the spur of the moment - the title caught my eye. Once I got started reading, I was very glad I gave into the impulse, although I didn't really need another book.

I found Patricia Raybon to be amazingly honest in her examination of race relations. She looks at her family, her...
Plant Dreaming Deep
AuthorMay Sarton
Plant Dreaming Deep is a memoir of writer May Sarton's first ten years in her first home in Nelson, NH.

I first read this book when in my twenties and in full stride as an ex-urbanite in the deep north woods of Minnesota. I felt a deep kinship with Ms. Sarton, even then, yet what a different perspective...
Composing a Life
AuthorMary Catherine Bateson
ISBN0802138047
Wow. I am really surprised by this book. I suppose the kindest thing to say is that it was written by a woman of a certain generation, and I feel that a lot of the compromises she accepts as "progress" are (happily) outdated thinking today. Her suggestions seem to point toward submission, I found. The women...
Job Hopper: The Checkered Career of a Down-Market Dilettante
AuthorAyun Halliday
ISBN1580051308
If it's true that the average worker will hold an average of seven jobs over the course of a lifetime, Ayun Halliday is anything but average. In her brief thirty-something years, Halliday has managed to rack up an impressive array of short lived stints in the paid job market, including life guard, library...
The Americanization of Edward Bok
AuthorEdward William Bok
ISBN0974290408
This Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography charmingly chronicles the life of Edward Bok, the longtime editor of The Ladies Home Journal and a noted philanthropist. Bok wrote of his eventful life, "Every life has some interest and significance; mine, perhaps, a special one. Here was a little Dutch...
The Virgin of Bennington
AuthorKathleen Norris
Shy and sheltered as a young woman, Kathleen Norris wasn't prepared for the sex, drugs, and bohemianism of Bennington College in the late 1960s—and when she moved to New York City after graduation, it was a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire. In this chronicle, Norris remembers the education...
True North: A Memoir
AuthorJill Ker Conway
ISBN0679744614
Conway's The Road from Coorain presents a vivid memoir of coming of age in Australia. In 1960, however, she had reached the limits of that provincial--and irredeemably sexist--society and set off for America. True North--the testament of an extraordinary woman living in an extraordinary time--te...
Living Out Loud
AuthorAnna Quindlen
ISBN0449456773
"A panopticon of life in this decade, sure to be valuable to future social historians She touches on life, love, home, family, work, men, women, children and issues large and small."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
The voice is Anna Quindlen's. But we know the hopes, dreams, fears, and wonder expressed in...
Sister Age
AuthorM.F.K. Fisher
ISBN0394723856
In these fifteen remarkable stories, M.F.K. Fisher, one of the most admired writers of our time, embraces age as St. Francis welcomed Brother Pain. With a saint to guide us, she writes in her Foreword, perhaps we can accept in a loving way "the inevitable visits of a possibly nagging harpy like Sister...
. . . and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man
AuthorConnie Schultz
ISBN1400065739
Writing with warmth and humor, Connie Schultz reveals the rigors, joys, and absolute madness of a new marriage at midlife and campaigning with her husband, Sherrod Brown, now the junior senator from Ohio. She describes the chain of events leading up to Sherrod’s decision to run for the Senate (he...
From the Ground Up: A Food Grower's Education in Life, Love, and the Movement That's Changing the Nation
AuthorJeanne Nolan
ISBN0812992997
An inspiring story for everyone who’s ever dreamed of growing the food they eat
 
When Jeanne Nolan, a teenager in search of a less materialistic, more authentic existence, left Chicago in 1987 to join a communal farm, she had no idea that her decades-long journey would lead her to the heart...
Myself When Young
AuthorDaphne du Maurier
ISBN0316254371
"An intimate view of a creative personality...as richly evocative as any of her novels." --Los Angeles Times

Both in her novels and her memoirs, Daphne du Maurier revealed an ardent desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries she kept between 1920 and 1932,...
Lost Found: The Adoption Experience
AuthorBetty Jean Lifton
ISBN0060971320
Rich in insight and compassion, Lost and Found is an eloquent exploration of the psychological issues faced by adoptees and by all children who have been separated from a parent and denied the right to know their true origins. Betty Jean Lifton, herself an adoptee, draws upon her own experience and her...
Corridors of Death
AuthorRuth Dudley Edwards
ISBN1590584341
Battered to death with a piece of abstract sculpture titled 'Reconciliation, ' Whitehall departmental head Sir Nicholas Clark is claimed by his colleagues to have been a fine and respected public servant cut off in his prime. Bewildered by the labyrinthine bureaucracy of Whitehall, Scotland Yard's...
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