Inventing the truth : the art and craft of memoir / Russell Baker ... [et al.] ; edited with an introduction by William Zinsser. - Rev. and expanded ed., 1st Mariner books ed. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998. - 227 p. ; 21 cm.

"A Mariner book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-221).

Life with mother / Points of departure / Learning to chill out / Poets in my youth / Lifting the veil / The past breaks out / To fashion a text / Looking for my family / The site of memory / William Zinsser -- Russell Baker -- Jill Ker Conway -- Frank McCourt -- Eileen Simpson -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Alfred Kazin -- Annie Dillard -- Ian Frazier -- Toni Morrison. Introduction /

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Autobiography.
Authors, American--Biography--History and criticism.


United States--History and criticism.--Biography

CT 25 / .I58 1998