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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風雨哈佛路
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...
評分认识莉丝的开始是从那部电影。 了解她是从这本书。 其实,也没有什么,简而言之,就是一本一个女孩的改过自新,奋斗成功故事。 “你为什么没有成为莉丝,我为什么没有成为莉丝?"我总是实在反问自己,其实一切都是自己在逃避,逃避社会,逃避面对。想着过一天算一天,或者是今...
評分认识莉丝的开始是从那部电影。 了解她是从这本书。 其实,也没有什么,简而言之,就是一本一个女孩的改过自新,奋斗成功故事。 “你为什么没有成为莉丝,我为什么没有成为莉丝?"我总是实在反问自己,其实一切都是自己在逃避,逃避社会,逃避面对。想着过一天算一天,或者是今...
評分又是一本被书名毁了的书, 其实这不是一本告诉你怎么考上哈佛的书,而是告诉你面对苦难,你是可以选择的,当看到莉兹那段消沉的日子,就想起陈扬师兄说过的话:当一个烂人和当一个好人都一样难,你为什么不选择当个好人? 今年农历后,爸爸的公司倒闭了,钱被合...
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评分大學時看過風雨哈佛路之後很感動~然後就像阿甘正傳一樣找到瞭原著看瞭看~仍然有內心的感觸~
评分inspiring and moving
评分really good book. not sure if Liz wrote it herself? because i am confused how she can remember all the little details that happened when she was less then 5 years old?
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