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Inventing the Truth
by Edited by William Zinsser
Essays by Russell Baker, Annie Dillard, Frank McCourt, Toni Morrison and others on the art of memoir. A classic anthology.
Read it if…
you want great memoirists on their craft.
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Skip it if…
you want a single method.
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Three things you will actually use
- Selection is invention.
- Every memoir is a shape.
- Learn from masters.
Do this first
Read Dillard's essay.
Our verdict
Memoirists on memoir.
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