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	In memoirs, varieties of truth \| csmonitor.com
		Similarly, a memoirist can let the reader know when the narrative is moving from one level of accuracy to another.
		When a reliable memoirist writes, "Here's a bona fide excerpt" from a diary, we understand we are about to receive an empirically verifiable quotation.
		And when a memoirist writes, "we must have wept, being a family of inveterate weepers," we understand that a lachrymose scene to follow is informed imagination.
	www.csmonitor.com /2006/0208/p09s02-coop.htm (756 words)

	MODULE 4 -- WHY WRITE A MEMOIR?
		The memoirist can, however, use parts of a journal, interweaving it with other material, or add and delete from a journal as memory and/or artistic needs require.
		The memoirist must get the subject to talk about his or her subject and record the interview material on tape or by hand.
		Sometimes, the author's adventures are so interesting, the memoirist wants to include them in the memoir even though they don't relate directly to the subject of the narrative.
	www.seniornet.org /courses/memoirs1/mmod4.shtml (1653 words)

	A memoirist defends her words - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is a misunderstanding to read a memoir as though the writer owes the reader the same record of literal accuracy that is owed in newspaper reporting or in literary journalism.
		What the memoirist owes the reader is the ability to persuade that the narrator is trying, as honestly as possible, to get to the bottom of the experience at hand.
		It never occurred to me that such practices would not be seen as entirely within the province of the memoirist.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/2003/08/12/memoir_writing/index_np.html (959 words)

	www.myspace.com/thememoiristscollective
		THE MEMOIRISTS COLLECTIVE is a group of four established, recently published memoirists who met online through MySpace.com, and banded together to start a revolution in the world of book promotion, through collaboration instead of competition.
		Not only is The Memoirist's Collective on a mission to help ourselves, we're also on a mission to help other writers find success, readers, and publishers, and we're sponsoring contests to make it happen.
		Memoirists Collective contests offer real entry into the world of publication, not just the typical contest prizes of "publication on our site" or… maybe… just maybe… a read from someone lurking in the caverns of some small publishing house somewhere.
	www.myspace.com /thememoiristscollective (4000 words)

	MODULE 5 -- VOICE AND TONE IN A MEMOIR
		But whatever the memoirist is writing about, he/she has to confront the artistic challenge of how to project two different voices.
		The key difference is that the memoirist is putting words into the mouths of a real person and must remain as true as possible to that person's voice.
		If the memoirist is successful, no reader will stop to ask, "How could the writer possibly remember that?" On the other hand, the reader can become distanced from a memoir because the writer includes so much detail and dialogue from the past that he/she seems to be writing a novel.
	www.seniornet.org /courses/memoirs1/mmod5.shtml (1401 words)

	Considering the Responsibility of a Memoirist
		The lesson may be best suited for AP English Literature or AP English Language students, or certainly IB English students, although all teachers are encouraged to customize this lesson for the needs of any high achieving or highly motivated student group.
		The lesson uses three brief NPR audio clips and graphic organizers to encourage consideration of the responsibility of a memoirist and analysis of rhetorical techniques to build solid arguments.
		For students who are not currently familiar with the expectations and rigor of AP work, the teacher may assign this alternate assignment: write an essay expressing your views on the role and responsibility of a memoirist.
	www.glc.k12.ga.us /BuilderV03/lptools/lpshared/lpdisplay.asp?Session_Stamp=&LPID=64250 (1705 words)

	ABC 13 - Identity of Indian Memoirist Is Disputed
		Doubts were raised about yet another memoirist as the alternative publication LA Weekly reported Wednesday that the award-winning Nasdijj, who says he's of Navajo descent, may be a white writer impersonating an Indian.
		Citing documents and interviews with scholars, Indian authors and his acquaintances and colleagues, the magazine alleges that Nasdijj is really named Timothy Barrus, a writer of gay and pornographic literature.
		Frey has acknowledged taking "liberties" with his best-selling "A Million Little Pieces." Leroy, a novelist and Hollywood insider with a reportedly hard-luck past, is widely believed to be a kind of literary composite.
	www.wset.com /news/stories/0106/297189.html (829 words)

	Electrolicious: The memoirist's curse
		I was a little bit younger than the other writers (the bulk were in the 35-45 range), and since of course I look and act even younger than I am, I think I confused everyone a bit.
		At one point, the workshop leader (best-selling memoirist Jennifer Lauck) grouped me into her 7-year-old son's generation, despite the fact that I'm in my early 30s.
		My mother doesn't have the slightest idea what my novel is about, but she has made me swear up and down that it isn't about her - not even a little bit, not even in a coded way that would allow her friends to speculate that I might be talking about her.
	www.electrolicious.com /archives/2006/03/the_memoirists_curse.html (2823 words)

	Salon Travel \| Frances Mayes and the riches of Tuscany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		memoirist talks about Italy, writing and how a bestseller changed her life.
		Back then, the poet and memoirist -- author of the mega-bestselling "Under the Tuscan Sun" and of the new sequel, "Bella Tuscany" -- was a professional poet with two published works and a teaching post at San Francisco State.
		And I was a would-be poet fresh out of a graduate writing program, where one of my teachers had given me Mayes' name to contact when I got to San Francisco.
	www.salon.com /travel/bag/1999/04/14/mayes (471 words)

	wbur.org Arts - Books - Cartoon Memoirist
		The child of intellectuals in the Shah's Iran, Satrapi is informed by the struggle to adapt to a new country as a young adult.
		As a memoirist, she generates a contradictory art out of blending a kids-book drawing style with the multicultural complexity of her adult sensibility.
		Like another fearless comic-book memoirist, Julie Doucet, Satrapi is not afraid to appear childish, to portray herself in whatever way the story calls for: foolish, unladylike, mindlessly victimized, enraged, or just plain inexplicable.
	www.wbur.org /arts/2005/48696_20050607.asp (912 words)

	Confessions of a memoirist - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is a book widely respected by teachers and students of the memoir genre, in part, because Gornick herself is a respected memoirist.
		She gave two examples -- conversations at a dinner party in New York, and a man who lived in a high rise and robbed stores at night.
		It was surely a culture clash: a sophisticated New York memoirist facing off against a crowd that included highly regarded journalists.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/archives/2003/08/01/gornick/index_np.html (907 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Barney, Natalie Clifford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In addition to being the muse and inspiration of other writers, American expatriate Natalie Clifford Barney, known as the Amazon, was a poet, memoirist and epigrammatist in her own right.
		Barney was born in Dayton, Ohio, on October 31, 1876; she grew up in Cincinnati and Washington, D.C. Her father, Albert Clifford Barney, inherited a railroad fortune, and when the family lived in Washington, Natalie moved in the highest social and diplomatic circles.
		Barney was not merely the muse of other writers, but a poet, memoirist, and epigrammatist in her own right.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/barney_nc.html (838 words)

	ABC News: Identity of Indian Memoirist Is Disputed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Identity of Indian Memoirist Nasdijj Is Disputed in the Alternative Publication, L.A. Weekly
		Doubts were raised about yet another memoirist as the alternative publication LA Weekly reported Wednesday Jan. 25, 2006, that the award-winning author who says he's of Navajo descent, may be a white writer impersonating an Indian.
		NEW YORK Jan 25, 2006 (AP)— Doubts were raised about yet another memoirist as the alternative publication LA Weekly reported Wednesday that the award-winning Nasdijj, who says he's of Navajo descent, may be a white writer impersonating an Indian.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=1541415&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (510 words)

	Quotations from Elizabeth Bowen
		The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet—when they do meet, their victims lie strewn around.
		The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance—due either to infatuation or indecision.
		To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful—and possibly the only—help that can be given.
	www.poemhunter.com /quotations/famous.asp?people=Elizabeth+Bowen&p=8 (435 words)

	Frank Conroy, 69, memoirist, director of noted workshop - The Boston Globe
		Frank Conroy, the memoirist and longtime director of the celebrated University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, died Wednesday.
		IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Frank Conroy, the memoirist and longtime director of the celebrated University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, died Wednesday.
		Conroy died at his home in Iowa City of colon cancer, said James Alan McPherson, acting co-director of the workshop.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/04/07/frank_conroy_69_memoirist_director_of_noted_workshop?mode=PF (445 words)

	newsobserver.com \| Memoirist comes off the sidelines of celebrity
		She is Courtney Love's mother but has never spoken publicly about her oldest daughter.
		And her biological mother is Paula Fox, the award-winning children's author, esteemed literary novelist and memoirist.
		But Carroll, 61, now a therapist in Corvallis, Ore., didn't learn that Fox was her birth mother until a reunion in the mid-1990s that forever transformed her public identity.
	www.newsobserver.com /105/story/410452.html (1230 words)

	University of Baltimore, Memoirist, Poet Rachel DeWoskin to Read at UB : October 26, 2006
		Memoirist, Poet Rachel DeWoskin to Read at UB April 24, 2006
		Memoirist and poet Rachel DeWoskin, author of a critically acclaimed memoir about her post-college years in China, will read from her works on Monday, April 24 as the next guest in the University of Baltimore’s Spring Reading Series.
		The event, free and open to the public, will be held at 7 p.m.
	www.ubalt.edu /calendar/EventDetail.cfm?eventId=147 (358 words)

	Plotting a course for freedom; Paul Jennings: White House memoirist - servant of President James Madison; Special ...
		Jennings (1799-1874), the son of an English trader and a slave woman of mixed African and Indian blood, was born on Madison's Montpelier estate and from his youth "was always with Mr.
		Madison till he died." But jennings was more than just Madison's body servant, more than the first White House memoirist, more even than a later benefactor of Madison's impoverished widow, Dolley.
		After acquiring his freedom in 1846--itself a tale that veers from tragedy to soap opera--Jennings was a leading plotter in the greatest slave escape in the history of the capital city.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1546/is_n1_v10/ai_16769686 (881 words)

	ASU News > Piper Center welcomes talks from memoirist, noted novelist
		Piper Center welcomes talks from memoirist, noted novelist
		A memoirist and nonfiction writer, plus a noted novelist, will speak and read from their work in October as part of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing’s Distinguished Visiting Writers Series.
		On Oct. 6, memoirist, nonfiction writer and editor Lee Gutkind will give a free reading at 7:30 p.m.
	www.asu.edu /news/stories/200510/20051006_gutkind.htm (382 words)

	Best-selling memoirist discusses his 'Oh the Glory of It All'
		Best-selling memoirist discusses his 'Oh the Glory of It All'
		Sean Wilsey is the memoirist of the moment.
		The 35-year-old writer has arrived on the literary scene with a cannonball splash, with a lengthy excerpt from his memoir in the New Yorker and a major feature in The New York Times Magazine.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /books/226899_wilsey03.html (458 words)

	Series to Feature Memoirist Bob Tarte / 2004-2005 / Archive / Press Releases / Hope - Hope College
		Visiting Writers Series to Present Memoirist Bob Tarte Nov. 16
		HOLLAND - Memoirist Bob Tarte will read in the Knickerbocker Theatre through the Hope College Visiting Writers Series on Tuesday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m.
		Tarte's compelling memoir, "Enslaved by Ducks," tells the story of a city-boy turned country.
	www.hope.edu /pr/pressreleases/content/view/full/2400 (230 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Rachel Cooke meets author, playwright and memoirist Laura Shaine Cunningham
		I had half been expecting to meet a little girl, with a ribbon tied in her hair and a pair of bright red sneakers on her feet.
		In this country, Shaine Cunningham is an unknown; in America, however, she is a novelist, playwright and memoirist of some note.
		She made her name in 1989, with the acclaimed tale of her Bronx childhood, Sleeping Arrangements.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/biography/story/0,6000,1391246,00.html?gusrc=rss (2424 words)

	Jo Sinclair, Novelist And Memoirist, 81 - New York Times
		Jo Sinclair, Novelist And Memoirist, 81 - New York Times
		Jo Sinclair, who wrote about the struggles of immigrant families in America, died on April 4 at her home in Jenkintown, Pa. She was 81.
		Soffer, she is survived by a sister, Fannie Stein of Cleveland.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE7D6163AF930A25757C0A963958260 (193 words)

	The Seattle Times: Books: Another memoirist is called in question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Seattle Times: Books: Another memoirist is called in question
		NEW YORK — Doubts were raised about yet another memoirist as the alternative publication LA Weekly reported Wednesday that the award-winning Nasdijj, who says he's of Navajo descent, may be a white writer impersonating an American Indian.
		Citing documents and interviews with scholars, Native American authors and his acquaintances and colleagues, the article alleges that Nasdijj is really named Timothy Barrus, a writer of gay and pornographic literature.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/books/2002764173_disputedmemoir.html?syndication=rss (609 words)

	Balls and Walnuts - more than you ever wanted to know » Memoirist BS
		For the first two or three years of residency, I knew I had a “nervous cough.” Every morning hack hack hack, this dry retching thing that would only subside by 10 or 11.
		I’m standing now, hands at my throat, making funny noises in a room with two other ENTs, two urology residents, two interns, and an irrelevant number of almost-doctors.
		This blog is protected by dr Dave's Spam Karma 2: 10601 Spams eaten and counting...
	ballsandwalnuts.com /?cat=4 (3697 words)

	Memoirist Abigail Vona: Agent Doug Dechert's "Receptacle?" - Gawker
		Memoirist Abigail Vona: Agent Doug Dechert's "Receptacle?" - Gawker
		Reporting live from the center of the universe.
		We can't vouch for the accuracy of Dechert's claims, but we can attest to their utter hilarity.
	www.gawker.com /news/books/memoirist-abigail-vona-agent-doug-decherts-receptacle-19846.php (297 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bad reaction to 'Side Effects' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		So St. Martin's removed the subtitle "true stories" from Possible Side Effects and added an author's note making clear that many events were changed and that several of the friends he describes are composites.
		Burroughs is less a memoirist than a comic; we expect our satirists to embellish and exaggerate just as we realize that MTV's The Real World is edited.
		What's unfortunate, however, is that St. Martin's didn't provide an author's note that would have actually helped readers.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2006-05-10-side-effects_x.htm?csp=34&ord=4 (455 words)

	Once a defender of deceptive memoirist, Winfrey tears into author
		Once a defender of deceptive memoirist, Winfrey tears into author
		ATLANTA — Oprah Winfrey broke "A Million Little Pieces" author James Frey into a million little pieces Thursday.
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	www.oxfordpress.com /sports/content/shared/news/nation/stories/2006/01/FREY_OPRAH_0127_COX.html (782 words)

	Legal Memoirist to Take to the Air Waves « Legal Pad
		Legal Memoirist to Take to the Air Waves « Legal Pad
		Legal Memoirist to Take to the Air Waves
		Nathan Cohn, the octogenarian who put out a book in March about his colorful (to say the least) law career harking back to 1940s San Francisco, is all set to tackle another medium with his stories.
	legalpad.wordpress.com /2006/06/23/radio (193 words)

	Doubts raised about Indian memoirist - BOOKS - MSNBC.com
		Doubts raised about Indian memoirist - BOOKS - MSNBC.com
		LA Weekly reports that a white writer may be impersonating a Navajo
		Memoirist Nasdijj poses with his dog Navajo in a photo taken by his wife in May 2002.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11026395 (833 words)

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