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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这本书的分类是励志传记,很久以前也看过这部电影,确实小小地励志了一把,觉得自己只要努力没有达不到的梦想。可是,后来就渐渐忘了,在日复一日的生活里,渐渐忘却了自己还有梦想,忘了本该竭尽所能去追寻自己的梦。励志故事的效果大都如此,心里热乎一把,小小激动一把,然...
评分父亲告诉她“你认为对你好的东西,你尽管向前冲去努力争取,不用管他们在背后胡说什么。”很多时候我觉得我从她的身上我看到了光芒,我觉得自己的生活狗血而不好的时候我读着她的故事我才觉得自己还是那么幸福。只要不放弃自己,这样就算全世界指着你的头对你说你是个废物的时...
评分许多人从电影中认识了Liz Murray和她的故事。许多人为之感动。不论在微博上或是在网络上,许多人把她树立成学习榜样,或努力的楷模,或是美国梦的另种实现形式。当然,这是电影需要的,普通人需要的,报纸需要的,电视台需要,微博需要的,也许还是哈佛需要的。 一个女孩,未成...
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stunning memoir of a young woman who is strong-minded.
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