Book Series: Inventing the Truth

Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir

By Henry Louis Gates, Annie Dillard, Toni Morrison

... Maya Angelou's IKnow Why theCaged Bird Sings, and The Autobiography ofMalcolm X.Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land moved medeeply as ateenager, as did Dick Gregory's Nigger and Sammy Davis, Jr.'s Yes, I Can.

Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir

By Russell Baker

In this perfect companion for anyone beguiled by memoirs or embarking on writing one, nine distinguished authors -- Russell Baker, Jill Ker Conway, Annie Dillard, Ian Frazier, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alfred Kazin, Frank McCourt, Toni ...

Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir

By William Knowlton Zinsser

Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir

By Russell Baker

In this unusually rich volume, eight prominent American writers recall in warm anecdotal detail the pleasures and problems of writing a memoir. Russell Baker explains why his first draft of...

Inventing the Truth: Art and Craft

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Inventing the Truth: Art and Craft

INVENTING THE TRUTH: Memory and Its Tricks - A Gay Life

By Lucien L Agosta PhD

... truth in the best way I know how to invent it. I swear this account is utterly reliable, though I had to make parts of it up for accuracy. Recording one's memories is a challenge for another reason: Memories never present themselves ...

INVENTING THE TRUTH: Memory and Its Tricks - A Gay Life

By Ph. D. Lucien L. Agosta

INVENTING THE TRUTH: MEMORY AND ITS TRICKS offers a collection of essays dealing with the author's life experiences as a gay man, including his complicated process of coming out and learning how to love and how to live happily and well.