Showing posts with label biography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biography. Show all posts

Monday, 12 January 2015

Have you ever thought about writing your Memoir?

Courtesy of Yesterday's Memory Workshop Here Are 38 Titles To Help You Out!

1 - All Over But The Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
2 - Blackbird, A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck
3 - The Colour of Water by James Mcbride
4 - Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by  Florence King
5 - Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
6 - Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir by Dava Sobel
7 - The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher
8 - In Search of Our Mother's Gardens by Alice Walker
9 - The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison
10 - Paula by Isabel Allende
11 - Prozac Nation, Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel
12 - Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
13 - Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
14 - An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
15 - Fireflies by David Morrell
16 - Midnight Mass: Stories of an Italian American Childhood by Gerry Albarelli
17 - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
18 - Ring of Bright Water by Maxwell Gavin
19 - Round Ireland in Low Gear by Eric and Wanda Newby
20 - Contemporary Creative Non-Fiction: The Art of Truth by Bill Roorbach
21 - Rolling Home: A Cross-Canada Railroad Memoir by Tom Allen
22 - The Only Snow in Havana by Elizabeth Hay
23 - Romancing Mary Jane: Life of a Failed Marijuana Grower by Michael Poole
24 - Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir by William Zinsser
25 - Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art by Judith Barrington
26 - Living to Tell the Tale: Guide to Writing Memoir by Jane Taylor McDonnell
27 - How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Life into Literature by Bill Roorbach
28 - Your Life as Story: Discovering the New Autobiography by Tristine Rainer
29 - Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
30 - Any Given Day: The Life and Times of Jessie Lee Brown Foveuax
31 - Writing Family History and Memoirs by Kirk Polking
32 - Writing Your Life: Putting Your Past on Paper by Lou Willet
33 - How To Write Your Own Life Story by Lois Daniel
34 - Story Only You Can Tell by Toni Sorenson
35 - The Book of Myself by Carl Marshall
36 - Writing the Family Narrative by Lawrence P. Gouldrup
37 - Your Living Legacy by Susan Fielder Mears
38 - How to Write Your Own Life Story by Patrika Vaugh

Do you have any titles to add to this list?

39 - If You Can Talk, You Can Write by Joel Saltzman 
40 - On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft By Stephen King

Quote of the Day: You gotta what you gotta if you wanna do what you wanna.