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Writing Non-fiction / Memoirs
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Good Prose : The Art of Nonfiction
by Tracy Kidder
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of House and the editor of Atlantic Monthly share stories from their literary friendship and respective careers, offering insight into writing principles and mechanics that they have identified as elementary to quality prose.
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Storycraft : the complete guide to writing narrative nonfiction
by Jack Hart
A former managing editor of the Oregonian who guided several Pulitzer Prize-winning narratives to publication shares guidelines for writers of nonfiction that encompass such topics as story theory, scene establishment and preparing work for submission.
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Bird by Bird : Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
A step-by-step guide to writing and managing the writer's life covers each portion of a written project, addresses such concerns as writer's block and getting published, and offers awareness and survival tips.
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Find your story, write your memoir
by Lynn Miller
SUPERANNO Offers an overview of the building blocks of memoir writing. Individual chapters focus on key issues and challenges, such as the balance between the remembering narrator and the experiencing narrator, the capacity to honor the subjective voice, creating an organically functional structure for a particular story, and taking the next steps with a written memoir.
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Handling the truth : on the writing of memoir
by Beth Kephart
A critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist offers writing lessons and examples for those interested in putting their memories down on paper and explains the difference between remembering and imagining and describes the language of truth.
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How to write a memoir in 30 days : step-by-step instructions for creating and publishing your personal story
by Roberta Temes
A quick, fun and easy guide to writing a personal memoir in just one month. How to Write Your Memoir in 30 Days provides the framework for writers enthusiastic about telling their story, but wondering how to begin. Step-by-step techniques, culled from writers' workshops taught by the author, are presented in a welcoming, non-intimidating style. The prospect of writing a book is not daunting when compartmentalized into thirty discrete assignments.
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The Situation and the Story
by Vivian Gornick
All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth.
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