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Writing the Memoir

"No student of memoir writing could fail to learn from this wise, pragmatic, and confiding book. One hears on every page the voice of an intelligent and responsive teacher with years of thinking about memoir behind her". — Vivian Gornick

Subject
education
Themes
writers
Audience
adult
Length
short · 189 pages

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