Russell Baker, Toni Morrison, Alfred Kazin, Annie Dillard

Inventing The Truth (eBook, ePUB)

The Art and Craft of Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For anyone who enjoys reading memoirsor is thinking about writing onethis collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors, including Annie Dillard, Frank McCourt, and others.

The events, memories, and emotions of the past often resist the orderly structure of a book. Inventing the Truth offers wisdom from nine notable memoirists about their process (Ian Frazier searched through generations of family papers to understand his parents' lives), the hurdles they faced (Annie Dillard tackles the central dilemma of memoir: what to put in and what to leave out), and the unexpected joys of bringing their pasts to the page.

Featured authors include Russell Baker on Growing Up; Jill Ker Conway on The Road from Coorain; Annie Dillard on An American Childhood; Ian Frazier on Family; Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Colored People; Alfred Kazin on A Walker in the City; Frank McCourt on Angela's Ashes; Toni Morrison on Beloved; and Eileen Simpson on Poets in Their Youth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547527451
• Artikelnr.: 40176437

Autorenporträt

William Zinsser is a writer, editior, and teacher. His fifteen books include the classic On Writing Well, which is in the sixth edition, and Writing to Learn. He lives in New York City.