Liz Murray completed high school and won a New York Times scholarship while homeless, and graduated from Harvard University in 2009. She has been awarded The White House Project Role Model Award, a Christopher Award, as well as the Chutzpah Award, which was given to Liz by Oprah Winfrey. Lifetime Television produced a film about Liz's life, Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. Today, she travels the world to deliver motivational speeches and workshops to inspire others. Liz is the founder and director of Manifest Trainings, a New York-based company that empowers adults to create the results they want in their own lives. ^Liz Murray completed high school and won a New York Times scholarship while homeless, and graduated from Harvard University in 2009. She has been awarded The White House Project Role Model Award, a Christopher Award, as well as the Chutzpah Award, which was given to Liz by Oprah Winfrey. Lifetime Television produced a film about Liz's life, Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. Today, she travels the world to deliver motivational speeches and workshops to inspire others. Liz is the founder and director of Manifest Trainings, a New York-based company that empowers adults to create the results they want in their own lives.
" Breaking Night reads more like an adventure story than an addiction-morality tale. It's a white-knuckle account of survival. . . . By age 6, Murray knew how to mainline drugs (though she never took them) and how to care for her strung-out parents. She showed uncanny maturity, even as a child, and later managed to avoid that malady of teenagers and memoir writers, self-pity. . . . Murray's stoicism has been hard-earned; it serves her well as a writer. Breaking Night itself is full of heart, without a sliver of ice, and deeply moving." ( The New York Times Book Review ) "Liz Murray shows us that the human spirit has infinite ability to grow and can never be limited by circumstance. Breaking Night is a beautifully written, heartfelt memoir that will change the way you look your community, the obstacles in your own life and the American Dream. An inspiration, a must read." (Robert Redford) "[Liz Murray] reminds us that the greatest acts of love and failure can occur side by side; that isolation and loss can give way to accomplishment and promise. She offers the awesome hope that, regardless of its past, a life can go beyond endurance and reach for triumph. She leave us with the memory of a child who clung to and refused to surrender the dignity of her soul." (Andrew Bridge, author of the New York Times bestseller Hope's Boy ) "As much as it is a memoir, Breaking Night is a primer on how poverty and drug abuse create a heartbreaking underclass of children, one that goes largely unnoticed. By the truly uplifting ending, Liz Murray has shown us the worst, and the very best, of America." (Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy and She Got Up Off the Couch ) In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard. Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep. When Liz's mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. Liz squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a New York Times scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League. Breaking Night is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one young woman's indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.
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风雨哈佛路
回汉时,一个偶然的机会住在西崽家,还是第一次去,往房间里的书架上一扫,惊讶的发现这两年多我俩关注的书有好几本相同,这本书便是其中之一。曾经还上网找过电子版,没找到,也就放弃了。看到西崽书架上的那本,回家便在亚马逊上淘回一本,直到离家前几天才到。在飞机上一口...
评分多年前。我倦缩在我家沙发上。手里拿着廉价速溶咖啡。 看着中央八套第一次播放根据这本书原著改编的电影。 我承认,我完全是被标题党的风雨哈佛路吸引,然后慢慢的看下去的。 Sat考试。Sat2美国历史。AP数学。这些名词。 都是我那时候也正在经历的。 看到Liz打工,疲惫到不堪...
评分莉斯-默里的故事是如此的令人心灵震撼,以致于被拍成电影并获得大奖。一个生活在无家可归者家庭的女孩,父母双双感染上艾滋病,但这个女孩没有放弃人生的希望,她用自己微薄的力量向命运挑战,最后踏入了哈佛大学的学术殿堂。 由于父母都染上了毒瘾,默里8岁...
评分风雨之后的彩虹 ---- 学会感恩 文/落潇 评《风雨哈佛路》 在众多的人物自传中,我们学到了隐忍,学到了等待,学到了厚积薄发,学到了韬光养晦,当一个又一个的伟人、名人、高人,十年寒窗之后,光耀门楣之时,目光所到之处尽是表面的光鲜。《风雨哈佛路》则描写的是...
评分写得好压抑,而且和电影差别太大了。
评分写得好压抑,而且和电影差别太大了。
评分相比这本书,我更喜欢电影。电影看完以后给人感觉很励志很有动力。而书一共12章,前十章半都在描述悲惨的童年和流浪生活,看着仅仅觉得压抑。
评分前11章都在回忆过去的灰暗人生,第12章开始逆袭之路……苦冲开了便淡
评分最后一个chapter才觉得没有嫩么压抑,也细腻的描写出很多电影里面没有说明的细节,看起来很过瘾
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