Modern American memoirs / selected and edited by Annie Dillard and Cort Conley

From A childhood / Harry Crews -- From Memoir of a modernist's daughter / Elenor Munro -- From Wolf willow / Wallace Stegner -- From Bronx primitive / Kate Simon -- From Growing up / Russell Baker -- From Facts of life / Maureen Howard -- From The sacred journey / Frederick Buechner -- From Fierce attachments / Vivian Gornick -- From Confessions of a knife / Richard Selzer -- From Art and ardor / Cynthia Ozick -- From A son of the middle border / Hamlin Garland -- From Stop-time / Frank Conroy -- From The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X -- From The earth is enough / Harry Middleton -- From Clear pictures / Reynolds Price -- From Black boy / Richard Wright -- From This boy's life / Tobias Wolff -- Shoot the piano player / Don Asher -- From Will's boy / Wright Morris -- From The woman warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston -- From Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- From This stubborn soil / William Ownes -- From Going to the territory / Ralph Ellison -- From The duke of deception / Geoffrey Wolff -- From The same river twice / Chris Offutt -- From Left handed / Left Handed -- From Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody -- From Court of memory / James McConkey -- Who won the West? / William Kittredge -- Replacing memory / Barry Lopez -- From Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston -- From Blackberry winter / Margaret Mead -- From Brothers and keepers / John Edgar Wideman -- The star thrower / Loren Eiseley -- From The education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams.