From Kona to Yenan: The Political Memoirs of Koji Ariyoshi
(2000), edited by Alice M. and Edward D. Beechert.
John Reinecke: The Autobiography of a Hawaiian Activist
(1993), edited by Alice M. and Edward D. Beechert, first in the Asian and
Pacific Personal Papers series.
Hawai`i Journeys to Nonviolence, edited by Glenn D. Paige, Lou
Ann Guanson, and George Simson (1995). A collection of eight
autobiographical sketches by Hawai`i peacemakers, with an afterword by
George Simson. Published with the University of Hawai`i Matsunaga
Institute for Peace and the Center for Global Nonviolence.
Currently underway: an edition of the autobiographical writings of
Koji Arioshi.
General Biography Monographs
The Visitable Past: A Wartime Memoir (2001), by Leon Edel.
Life-Writing: A Glossary of Terms in Biography, Autobiography,
and Related Forms (1995), by Donald J. Winslow, 2nd edition.
Called from Within: Early Women Lawyers of Hawaii (1992),
edited by Mari Matsuda. Biographical profiles of the 17 women admitted to
the Hawaii Bar before statehood in 1959.
The Autobiographical Writings of Lewis Mumford: A Study in Literary
Audacity (1988), by Frank Novak, Jr.
Essaying Biography: A Celebration for Leon Edel (1986), edited
with a forward by Gloria Fromm.
Currently Underway: Introduction to Life-Writing by George
Simson.
Conference Proceedings
Comparing Lives: Life-Writing from the Pacific Rim (Fall 1997),
edited with an introduction by George Simson, and Afterword by Craig
Howes. Papers from the January 1995 conference on Pacific Rim biography
published in cooperation with the college of Language, Linguistics, and
Literature, University of Hawaii.
New Directions in Biography (1981), edited with a Foreward by
Anthony Friedson. Papers from the 1981 conference on changing directions
in biography by Phyllis Auty, Leon Edel, Michael Holroyd, Noel Manganyi,
Gabriel Merle, Margot Peters, and Shoichi Saeki.