Carter Jefferson |
Some Memoirs Worth Reading But first, if you're thinking of writing a memoir, here are two books you might want to read. The second is a kind of how-to book, and I usually frown on those, but the author uses her own experience to make some points you might want to consider. Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story Maureen Murdock, Unreliable Truth And now to the list: Jeannette Angell, Call Girl Russell Baker, Growing Up Judy Blunt, Breaking Clean Rick Bragg, All Over but the Shoutin' Jill Ker Conway, The Road from Coorain Liane De Pougy, My Blue Notebooks Annie Dillard, An American Childhood Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., A Hell of a War Nat Hentoff, Boston Boy Mary Karr, The Liars' Club Malcolm X, Autobiography James McBride, The Color of Water Jennifer Foote Sweeney (ed.), Life As We Know It: A Collection of Personal Essays from Salon.com Katharine Whittemore, Ilena Silverman, and Ilene Silverman, Turning toward Home: Reflections on the Family from Harper's Magazine |
