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Author
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone has a story to tell. Learn how to write your memoir and get published with the help of two well-known publishing professionals. Your Life is a Book guides budding writers though the transformative process of memoir writing to publication. In addition to exploring the unique elements of crafting a memoir--story arc, point of view, dialogue, where to start (not the beginning!)-Your Life is a Book also focuses on the self-exploration, awareness,...
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Author of the international bestseller I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, Pamela Des Barres shares with women the art of memoir writing. For the last fourteen years, Pamela Des Barres has been teaching an eight-week women's "femoir" writing workshop. She found that the music-loving ladies who showed up at her door had pent-up stories to tell. Many of them had read her two memoirs, which were wildly personal and deeply confessional, and...
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"What moves memoirists to make their most personal stories public? In Why We Write About Ourselves, twenty of America's most successful memoirists answer this question -- and share the nuts and bolts of how they do it. Exploring such issues as the reliability of memory, the ethics of disclosure, and how to protect others' privacy without self-censoring, these bestselling memoirists reveal what keeps them going during the tough times and what they...
5) Plutarch
Author
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1970
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Plutarch.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bestselling author and renowned professor Mary Karr offers a master class in the essential elements of great memoir—delivered with her signature wit, insight, and candor.
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.
For thirty years Karr
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this book, Stephen Cushman considers Civil War generals' memoirs as literary works of art and examines how they remain vital to understanding the interaction of memory, imagination, and the writing of American history. Drawing on methods from history and literary studies, Cushman analyses how generals Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph E. Johnston, George B. McClellan, Philip H. Sheridan, William T. Sherman, and Richard Taylor crafted memoirs that shaped...
Publisher
UNIV OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Chinese Autobiographical Writing contains full translations of autobiographical narratives, personal accounts, poems, and letters by fifty authors that reveal personal experiences as well as self-reflection by individuals from all walks of life over the course of Chinese history"--
Publisher
Gale Research
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Designed to introduce the lives and works of those individuals who influenced the development of genre in accepting that "the biographer can create a work of truth and pleasure" by merging scholarship with creativity, thus establishing biography as a literary art.