Inventing the truth : the art and craft of memoir

Baker, Russell , 1925-

Inventing the truth : the art and craft of memoir / Russell Baker et al / ed. William Zinsser - Boston, Massachusetts : Houghton Mifflin Company , c1998. - 217 pages ; 21 cm.

Introduction / William Zinsser Life with mother / Russell Baker Points of departure / Jill Ker Conway Learning to chill out / Frank McCourt Poets in my youth / Eileen Simpson Lifting the veil / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The past breaks out / Alfred Kazin To fashion a text / Annie Dillard Looking for my family / Ian Frazier The site of memory / Toni Morrison

Nine authors discuss the problems and pleasures of reinventing the past


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Autobiography---Authorship
Authors, American---History and criticism---20th century----Biography

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