My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson--His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous - Softcover

Cheever, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743405919 ISBN 13: 9780743405911

Publisher: Washington Square Press, 2005

Synopsis

In this definitive and groundbreaking biography, acclaimed author Susan Cheever offers a remarkably human portrait of a man whose life and work both influenced and saved the lives of millions of people. Drawing from personal letters, diaries, AA archives, interviews - and Cheever's own experiences with alcoholism - My Name Is Bill is the first fully documented, deeply felt account of Bill Wilson and Alcoholics Anonymous.

About this title

Review:

"Distinctive...and telling."
-- The New York Times Book Review

"Susan Cheever...decants the ups and downs of a remarkable man [and] does so in her distinctive style: succinct chapters, pithy profiles and telling detail...even more important are the insights and empathy so credibly her own as a reformed drinker who attended meetings of AA with her father, novelist John Cheever."
-- The New York Times Book Review

"As the biography of one of the most humane and beneficial Americans who ever lived, it is a national treasure."
-- Kurt Vonnegut

"[A] wise, well-reported life story of the man who changed the way the world deals with addiction."
-- Chicago Sun-Times

About the Author:

Susan Cheever is the bestselling author of thirteen previous books, including five novels and the memoirs Note Found in a Bottle and Home Before Dark. Her work has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Boston Globe Winship Medal. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the Corporation of Yaddo, and a member of the Author's Guild Council. She teaches in the Bennington College M.F.A. program. She lives in New York City with her family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Washington Square Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743405919
• ISBN 13: 9780743405911
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336