About this title: Excellent examples of the art of autobiography, these 35 memoirs are sheer pleasure to read. Some are by well-known authors (like Russell Baker, Kate Simon, and James Baldwin) and some by unknowns; all illuminate the vast variety of the American experience.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780060927639ISBN:0060927631
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 8/30/1996
ISBN-13:9780060927639ISBN:0060927631
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Perennial
Date Published: 1996-09-01
ISBN-13:9780060927639ISBN:0060927631
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780060927639ISBN:0060927631
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins, NY
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780060170400ISBN:0060170409
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780060927639ISBN:0060927631
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780060170400ISBN:0060170409
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Edition: Trade Paperback
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial, New York
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780060927639ISBN:0060927631
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"it's an interesting book to teach, lots to work with. bummer that everything is a selection from a larger work-- it is hard to show students how to write short memoir pieces from this model, but many have said they want to get the larger works to continue the stories. many classics in the collection."
"The anthology provides a wide array of memoirs and is really a standard for teaching the genre. It holds a dear place in my heart because in my memoir class with Karl, I unwittingly mentioned in conference on the day we read Maureen Howard's piece from Facts of Life that I had performed in my high school's production of The Music Man as a pick-a-little lady and knew the classical attitudes from the Grecian Urn scene. Later that day in class, he proceeded to make me read that portion of the memoir and act out the appropriate attitude, culminating in "Despair" which involved a deep sigh and the flinging of my hand to my forehead. That remains one of my most ridiculously embarrassing but still enjoyable experiences from Bryn Mawr and the people I took that class with still make reference to that memorable event."
"Thankfully, this book was a good portion of the reading for a creative non-fiction writing class I took during my second-to-last semester of undergraduate. This book includes the whole text of "The Star Thrower," my introduction to Loren Eiseley, who is an acquired taste but a brilliant writer. Some other favorites: the selection from Richard Selzer's "Confessions of a Knife," the selection from Frederick Buechner's "The Sacred Journey," and the selection from "Stop-Time" by Frank Conroy. But really this book is a collection of good snippets, at best a spring board into bigger things."
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