Memoirs and Books by Peoples Temple Authors

The following are articles from the jonestown report. A full listing of First-Person Accounts and Memoirs appears on the Speakers and Resources page.

Who Died?, by Kathryn (Tropp) Barbour
Articles by Kathryn (Tropp) Barbour
Redefining Jonestown (2015)
Channeling the Pioneers (2015)
Reviews
Take a Picture of This, by Craig Foreman (2015)

Jonestown Lullaby, by Teri Buford O’Shea
Publication News
Jonestown Lullaby Finds New Audiences (2012)
Jonestown Lullaby Published (2011)
Forward to Jonestown Lullaby
The Poems In Jonestown Lullabyby Heather Johnson (2011)

A Report on Father’s Love, by Hue Fortson Jr. (2004)

Surviving November, by Dawn Gardfrey
Surviving November: My Life After Jonestown Moves Forward (2013)
Surviving November: My Life After Jonestown Finds New Passion (2012)
Surviving November: My Life After Jonestown (2011)

Our Own Worst Enemy, by Charles W. Johnson (2017)

Jonestown Survivor: An Insider’s Look, by Laura Johnston Kohl
Articles by Laura Johnston Kohl
Jonestown Survivor Becomes an Audio Book (2014)
Jonestown Survivor: My Next Chapter (2012)
Finding My Voice (2012)
2011 Update For Jonestown Survivor: An Insider’s Look (2011)
Website and Blog Complement Jonestown Survivor (2011)
Jonestown Survivor: An Insider’s Look Published (2010)
Jonestown Survivor: A Progress Report (2009)
And That Ain’t The Half Of It (2008)
Reviews
An Insider’s Look, by Niels Colesky (2010)
A Narrated Tour of Jonestown, by Susan White Hicks (2010)
A Recommendation, by Eusi Kwayana (2010)
Laura Johnston Kohl’s Jonestown, by Bill Perrine (2010)
Archived Website of Jonestown Survivor

Back to the World: A Life After Jonestown, by Eugene Smith
Articles by Eugene Smith
Night… An Author’s Perspective (2021)
Writing a Memoir, Making a Re-Introduction (2018)
Reviews
Surviving Survival: A Review of Back to the World, by darlene anita scott (2021)
Thanks to Eugene Smith: A Review of Back to the World, by Rev. Richard Lawrence (2021) 

Marked for Death, by Tim Stoen
Reviews
Marked for Death: A (jumping over the) Cliffs Notes review, by Matthew Thomas Farrell (2016)
Review Essay: Tim Stoen, Peoples Temple, the Concerned Relatives, and Jonestown, by John R. Hall (2016)

The Onliest One Alive: A Reconsideration of the First Survivor Account, by Sylvia Marciniak (2010)

Legacy Warrior, by Jordan Vilchez
Articles by Jordan Vilchez
Legacy Warrior (2015)
The Book That Wasn’t (2012)

Slavery of Faith, by Leslie Wagner-Wilson
Articles by Leslie Wagner-Wilson
This Season (2012)
In the Game of Life, Faith Wins (2011)
Eternally Grateful: A Year After Slavery of Faith</a (2010)
The Gift (2009)
Review
Slavery of Faith: A Review, by Sylvia Marciniak (2009)