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Title:

Inventing the truth : the art and craft of memoir / Russell Baker ... [et al.] ; edited with an introduction by William Zinsser.

Edition:

Rev. and expanded ed., 1st Mariner books ed.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

227 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Autobiography.
United States--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Authors, American--History and criticism.--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Baker, Russell, 1925-
Zinsser, William Knowlton.

Notes:

"A Mariner book." Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-221).

Contents:

Introduction / Toni Morrison. The site of memory / Russell Baker -- Points of departure / Jill Ker Conway -- Learning to chill out / Frank McCourt -- Poets in my youth / Eileen Simpson -- Lifting the veil / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- The past breaks out / Alfred Kazin -- To fashion a text / Annie Dillard -- Looking for my family / Ian Frazier -- The site of memory / Toni Morrison.

ISBN:

9780395901502
0395901502

LCCN:

98007926

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)