Funny, poignant and pensive, all are indicative of a time and place in historyĬhildhood / Harry Crews - Memoir of a modernist's daughter / Eleanor Munro - Wolf willow / Wallace Stegner - Bronx primitive / Kate Simon - Growing up / Russell Baker - Facts of life / Maureen Howard - Sacred journey / Frederick Buechner - Fierce attachments / Vivian Gornick - Confessions of a knife / Richard Selzer - Art and ardor / Cynthia Ozick - Son of the middle border / Hamlin Garland - Stop-time / Frank Conroy - Autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X - Earth is enough / Harry Middleton - Clear pictures / Reynolds Price - Black boy / Richard Wright - This boy's life / Tobias Wolff - Shoot the piano player / Don Asher - Will's boy / Wright Morris - Woman warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston - Notes of a native son / James Baldwin - This stubborn soil / William Owens - Going to the territory / Ralph Ellison - Duke of deception / Geoffrey Wolff - Same river twice / Chris Offutt - Left handed / Left Handed - Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody - Court of memory / James McConkey - Who owns the West? / William Kittredge - Replacing memory / Barry Lopez - Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston - Blackberry winter / Margaret Mead - Brothers and keepers / John Edgar Wideman - Star thrower / Loren Eiseley - Education of Henry Adams / Henry AdamsĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:02:10 Associated-names Dillard, Annie Conley, Cort, 1944- Boxid IA1963611 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
Including work by James Baldwin, Kate Simon, Geoffrey Wolf and Margaret Mead, each entry is preceded by a biography of the writer. This astonishing collection of excerpts drawn from extraordinary 20th century American memoirs delights, surprises and enriches.
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