An indispensable book by writers who have experienced firsthand the rewards and challenges of crafting a Memoir Anyone undertaking the project of writing a Memoir knows that the events, memories, and emotions of the past often resist the orderly structure of a book. 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 ..
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.
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.
An indispensable book by writers who have experienced firsthand the rewards and challenges of crafting a Memoir Anyone undertaking the project of writing a Memoir knows that the events, memories, and emotions of the past often resist the orderly structure of a book
