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Tell Me True Memoir, History, and Writing a Life

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ISBN-10: 0873518152

ISBN-13: 9780873518154

Edition: 2011

Authors: Patricia Hampl, Elaine Tyler May, Andr� Aciman, Matt Becker, June Cross

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In this landmark collection, Patricia Hampl and Elaine Tyler May have gathered fourteen original essays from award-winning memoirists and historians. They are all storytellers, wrestling with a fascinating gray area where memory intersects with history and where the necessities of narrative collide with mundane facts. and whether the record emerges from archival sources or from personal memory, these writers show how to make the leap to telling a good story-while also telling us true. #x1C;reading each of these superb and provocative essays, readers understand history in the memoir and memoir in the history. What all the writers recognize is that they and their disciplines all deal with the…    
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Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Publication date: 1/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Elaine Tyler May has written several books on twentieth-century American history. Both are regents professors at the University of Minnesota.

A regular contributor to the New Yorker, The New York Review of Books and The New Republic, Andre Aciman was born in Alexandria: raised in Egypt, Italy, and France; and educated at Harvard. He teaches literature at Bard College and lives in Manhattan.

June Crossis a journalist and an award-winning television producer whose numerous projects include This Far by Faith: African American Spiritual Journeys. She is currently an associate professor of journalism at Columbia University.