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Recommended Reading
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- James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
- Jo Ann Beard, The Boys of My Youth
- Jerome Charyn, The Dark Lady of Belorusse
- Judith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
- Frank Conroy, Stop-Time
- Faith Edise, Nina Sichel, Eds. Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global
- James Ellroy, My Dark Places
- Patricia Hampl, A Romantic Education
- Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Life
- June Jordan, Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
- Lisa Knopp, Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape
- Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of my Name
- Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
- Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
- Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
- Vladimir Nabokov, Speak Memory
- Alberto Rios, Capirotadas: A Nogales Memoir
- Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books
- Kate Simon, Bronx Primitive
- Ilan Stevens, On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language
- Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life
- Richard Wright, Black Boy
Family & Relationships
- Max Apple, Roommates: My Grandfather's Story; I Love Gootie: My Grandmother's Story
- Peter Balakian, Black Dog of Fate
- Jane Bernstein, Loving Rachel
- Mary Clearman Blew, All But the Waltz: Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family
- Francine Cournos, City of One
- John Daniel, Looking After: A Son's Memoir
- Patty Dann, The Baby Boat: A Memoir of Adoption
- Nora Eisenberg, The War at Home
- Kathleen Finneran, The Tender Land
- Patricia Foster, All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter
- Dorothy Gallagher, How I Came into My Inheritance
- Gail Hosking Gilberg, Snake's Daughter: The Roads in and Out of War
- Vivian Gornick, Fierce Attachments
- Adam Hochschild, Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son
- Susan Jacoby, Half-Jew
- Bret Lott, Fathers, Sons, Brothers
- Rebecca McClanahan, The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings
- Valerie Miner, The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir
- Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty
- Molly Peacock, Paradise, Piece by Piece
- Sue William Silverman, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You
- Abigail Thomas, Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
- Jim Toner, Serendib
- Bruce Weigl, The Circle of Hanh
- John Edgar Wideman, Brothers and Keepers
Illness, Accident, Grief
- A. Manette Ansay, Limbo: A Memoir
- Harold Brodkey, This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death
- Anatole Broyard, Intoxicated by My Illness
- Andre Dubus, Broken Vessels, Meditations from a Moving Chair
- Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
- Kenny Fries, Body, Remember
- Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures
- Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
- Evan Handler, My Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors
- Ann Hood, Do Not Go Gentle: The Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time
- Roger Kamenetz, Terre Infirma
- Jamaica Kincaid, My Brother
- Kay Jamison, An Unquiet Mind
- Natalie Kusz, Road Song
- Mindy Lewis, Life Inside
- Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
- Nancy Mairs, Carnal Acts; Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled
- Christopher Noel, In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: A Geography of Grief
- Reynolds Price, A Whole New Life
- William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Personal Essay
- Jill Bialofsky and Helen Schulman (eds.), Wanting a Child
- Janet Burroway, Embalming Mom: Essays in Life
- Toi Dericotte, The Black Notesbooks: An Interior Journey
- The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative Nonfiction
- M.F.K. Fisher, Among Friends
- Ian Frazier, On the Rez
- Kenny Fries (ed.), Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out
- Vivian Gornick, Approaching Eye Level
- Steve Harvey, Bound for Shady Grove
- Phillip Lopate, Against Joie de Vivre; Portrait of My Body
- Molly Peacock (ed.), The Private I (on privacy)
- Scott Russel Sanders, Secrets of the Universe and Staying Put
- Mimi Schwartz, Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed
- David Shields, Remove: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity
- Gerald Stern, What I Can't Bear Losing
- E. B. White, One Man's Meat
- Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being; The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
Occupational Memoirs
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Teacher
- Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing-Sing
- Gail Griffin, Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongue
- Ben Hamper, Rivethead
- Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking
- Louise Rafkin, Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures
- Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- Richard Seltzer, Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery; Confessions of a Knife
- Frank Vertosick, Why We Hurt; The Natural History of Pain
More Books on Writing
- Robert Atwan, ed., The Best American Essays (published annually)
- Carol Bly, Beyond the Writers' Workshop: New Ways to Explore Creative Nonfiction
- Judith Ortiz Cofer, Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer
- Scott Edelstein, The Indispensable Writer's Guide
- Bonnie Friedman, Writing Past Dark
- Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones
- Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story
- Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories
- Robin Hemley, Turning Life into Fiction
- Ralph Keyes, The Courage to Write
- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
- Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers
- Phillip Lopate, ed., The Art of the Personal Essay
- Rebecca McClanahan, Write Your Heart Out
- Bill Roorbach, Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories into Memoirs
- William Zinsser, ed., Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
Literary Journals for Nonfiction
- Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (msupress.msu.edu/FourthGenre)
- Creative Nonfiction (www.creativenonfiction.org)
- Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Essay (www.tiny-lights.com)
- The Sun Magazine (www.thesunmagazine.org)
Web Sites for Writers
- Poets & Writers (www.pw.org)
- The Associated Writing Programs (www.awpwriter.org)
Getting Published
- Writers Market (www.writersmarket.com)
- Literary Market Place (www.literarymarketplace.com)
- Literary Agents: A Writer's Introduction, John F. Baker
- Dustbooks (P.O. Box 100, Paradise, CA 95967), publishes The International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses
- A. Manette Ansay, Limbo: A Memoir
- Harold Brodkey, This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death
- Anatole Broyard, Intoxicated by My Illness
- Andre Dubus, Broken Vessels, Meditations from a Moving Chair
- Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
- Kenny Fries, Body, Remember
- Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures
- Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
- Evan Handler, My Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors
- Ann Hood, Do Not Go Gentle: The Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time
- Roger Kamenetz, Terre Infirma
- Jamaica Kincaid, My Brother
- Kay Jamison, An Unquiet Mind
- Natalie Kusz, Road Song
- Mindy Lewis, Life Inside
- Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
- Nancy Mairs, Carnal Acts; Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled
- Christopher Noel, In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: A Geography of Grief
- Reynolds Price, A Whole New Life
- William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Personal Essay
- Jill Bialofsky and Helen Schulman (eds.), Wanting a Child
- Janet Burroway, Embalming Mom: Essays in Life
- Toi Dericotte, The Black Notesbooks: An Interior Journey
- The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative Nonfiction
- M.F.K. Fisher, Among Friends
- Ian Frazier, On the Rez
- Kenny Fries (ed.), Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out
- Vivian Gornick, Approaching Eye Level
- Steve Harvey, Bound for Shady Grove
- Phillip Lopate, Against Joie de Vivre; Portrait of My Body
- Molly Peacock (ed.), The Private I (on privacy)
- Scott Russel Sanders, Secrets of the Universe and Staying Put
- Mimi Schwartz, Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed
- David Shields, Remove: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity
- Gerald Stern, What I Can't Bear Losing
- E. B. White, One Man's Meat
- Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being; The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
Occupational Memoirs
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Teacher
- Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing-Sing
- Gail Griffin, Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongue
- Ben Hamper, Rivethead
- Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking
- Louise Rafkin, Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures
- Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- Richard Seltzer, Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery; Confessions of a Knife
- Frank Vertosick, Why We Hurt; The Natural History of Pain
More Books on Writing
- Robert Atwan, ed., The Best American Essays (published annually)
- Carol Bly, Beyond the Writers' Workshop: New Ways to Explore Creative Nonfiction
- Judith Ortiz Cofer, Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer
- Scott Edelstein, The Indispensable Writer's Guide
- Bonnie Friedman, Writing Past Dark
- Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones
- Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story
- Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories
- Robin Hemley, Turning Life into Fiction
- Ralph Keyes, The Courage to Write
- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
- Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers
- Phillip Lopate, ed., The Art of the Personal Essay
- Rebecca McClanahan, Write Your Heart Out
- Bill Roorbach, Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories into Memoirs
- William Zinsser, ed., Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
Literary Journals for Nonfiction
- Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (msupress.msu.edu/FourthGenre)
- Creative Nonfiction (www.creativenonfiction.org)
- Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Essay (www.tiny-lights.com)
- The Sun Magazine (www.thesunmagazine.org)
Web Sites for Writers
- Poets & Writers (www.pw.org)
- The Associated Writing Programs (www.awpwriter.org)
Getting Published
- Writers Market (www.writersmarket.com)
- Literary Market Place (www.literarymarketplace.com)
- Literary Agents: A Writer's Introduction, John F. Baker
- Dustbooks (P.O. Box 100, Paradise, CA 95967), publishes The International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Teacher
- Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing-Sing
- Gail Griffin, Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongue
- Ben Hamper, Rivethead
- Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking
- Louise Rafkin, Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures
- Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- Richard Seltzer, Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery; Confessions of a Knife
- Frank Vertosick, Why We Hurt; The Natural History of Pain
More Books on Writing
- Robert Atwan, ed., The Best American Essays (published annually)
- Carol Bly, Beyond the Writers' Workshop: New Ways to Explore Creative Nonfiction
- Judith Ortiz Cofer, Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer
- Scott Edelstein, The Indispensable Writer's Guide
- Bonnie Friedman, Writing Past Dark
- Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones
- Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story
- Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories
- Robin Hemley, Turning Life into Fiction
- Ralph Keyes, The Courage to Write
- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
- Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers
- Phillip Lopate, ed., The Art of the Personal Essay
- Rebecca McClanahan, Write Your Heart Out
- Bill Roorbach, Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories into Memoirs
- William Zinsser, ed., Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
Literary Journals for Nonfiction
- Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (msupress.msu.edu/FourthGenre)
- Creative Nonfiction (www.creativenonfiction.org)
- Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Essay (www.tiny-lights.com)
- The Sun Magazine (www.thesunmagazine.org)
Web Sites for Writers
- Poets & Writers (www.pw.org)
- The Associated Writing Programs (www.awpwriter.org)
Getting Published
- Writers Market (www.writersmarket.com)
- Literary Market Place (www.literarymarketplace.com)
- Literary Agents: A Writer's Introduction, John F. Baker
- Dustbooks (P.O. Box 100, Paradise, CA 95967), publishes The International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses
- Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (msupress.msu.edu/FourthGenre)
- Creative Nonfiction (www.creativenonfiction.org)
- Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Essay (www.tiny-lights.com)
- The Sun Magazine (www.thesunmagazine.org)
Web Sites for Writers
- Poets & Writers (www.pw.org)
- The Associated Writing Programs (www.awpwriter.org)
Getting Published
- Writers Market (www.writersmarket.com)
- Literary Market Place (www.literarymarketplace.com)
- Literary Agents: A Writer's Introduction, John F. Baker
- Dustbooks (P.O. Box 100, Paradise, CA 95967), publishes The International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses
- Writers Market (www.writersmarket.com)
- Literary Market Place (www.literarymarketplace.com)
- Literary Agents: A Writer's Introduction, John F. Baker
- Dustbooks (P.O. Box 100, Paradise, CA 95967), publishes The International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses