| Description |
227 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
In this expanded edition of the popular Inventing the Truth, nine well-known authors describe in anecdotal detail the pleasures and problems of writing a memoir. Inventing the Truth is an indispensable book for anyone writing a memoir or anyone eager to know how authors impose an orderly structure on the disorderly experiences, memories, and emotions of the past |
| Analysis |
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- History and criticism |
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Autobiography |
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United States -- Biography -- History and criticism |
| Notes |
"A Mariner book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-221) |
| Subject |
Authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Autobiography.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Biography http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139912 -- History and criticism.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001187
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| Author |
Baker, Russell, 1925-2019.
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Zinsser, William, 1922-2015.
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| LC no. |
98007926 |
| ISBN |
0395901502 |
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