However, before his tragic death, Howe wrote a touching memoir entitled "Pink" about his struggles throughout life.
In "Only Son," Johnson's touching and cleareyed memoir, written with Jeff Coplon, he recounts how his embattled childhood complicated his relationship with his parents until the very end.
He was the editor of The Harvard Law Review and also won a Grammy (for the audiobook of his touching memoir, "Dreams From My Father").
Gurganus describes this skillful and touching memoir as "the blunt, hyperpictorial and unlikely truth."
Molly Hughes in her touching memoir of a London childhood in the 1870s recalled the excitement of the family's annual holiday trip to Cornwall:
The result is a hilarious and very touching memoir of two decades of love and the funky glories of show business life (2:00).
And now memorializing the site is his own touching memoir, which makes a dark and threatening place seem as golden as the dawn of a promising new life.
The result is "a funny and often touching memoir" about "the pleasures and perils of female bonding," Hilma Wolitzer said here last year.
He shows a canny business sense, a basic fair-mindedness and, according to a touching, unsentimental memoir by his son, Daniel, included as a chapter, a clumsy capacity to love.
A humorous, touching memoir about female bonding.