This guide to writing memoirs and first-person essays shows how to write by showing how to read and recognize the truth in the writing of others. The book, which grew out of the author's 15 years of teaching in M.F.A. programs, demonstrates the enduring truth speaker to be found in the work of well-known and less-know writers including Oscar Wilde, Joan Didion, and James Baldwin. This edition contains a brief guide for writers, teachers, and students, with exercises, discussion topics, and reading suggestions. There is no subject index. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
guide for those aspiring to write their [own narrative] . . . [goes] a long way toward sorting out . . . what the genre is.