Bethany Hamilton . She wrote about her experience in the 2004 autobiography Soul Surfer : A True Story of Faith , Family , and Fighting to Get Back on the Board . Even the Stars Look Lonesome ( 1997 ) is African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou 's second book of essays , published during the long period between her fifth and sixth autobiographies , All God 's Children Need Traveling Shoes ( 1986 ) and A Song Flung Up to Heaven ( 2002 ) . Styles of Radical Will is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag published in 1969 .
Bethany Hamilton wrote a book of personal essays.