Modern American Memoirs

Annie Dillard

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In "Modern American Memoirs", two very discerning writers and readers have selected samples from 35 of the finest memoirs written in this century, including contributions by such diverse writers as Margaret Mead, Malcolm X, Maxine Hong Kingston, Loren Eisely, and Zora Neale Hurston. Chosen for their value as excellent examples of the art of biography as well as for their superb writing, the excerpts present a broad range of American life, and offer vivid insight into the real-life events that shaped their authors. Here, readers can learn about the time when Harry Crews, playing as a boy, fell into a vat of boiling water with a dead hog; Chris Offutt joined the circus and watched a tattooed woman swallow a fluorescent light; and Frank Conroy practiced yo-yo tricks".Packed with superb writing". "--New York Newsday"

"[In] this anthology of well-chosen excerpts by a satisfyingly diverse group of writers....the truth of their lives shines from every beautifully, often courageously composed page". "--Booklist"

Book Details

Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publish Date: Aug 30th, 1996
Pages: 464
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.30in - 1.20in - 0.80lb
EAN: 9780060927639
Categories: • Literary Figures• American - General• Books & Reading

About the Author

Dillard, Annie: -

Annie Dillard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Writing Life, The Living and The Maytrees. She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and has received fellowship grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Praise for this book

"[In] this anthology of well-chosen excerpts by a satisfyingly diverse group of writers....the truth of their lives shines from every beautifully, often courageously composed page." -- Booklist

"Packed with superb writing." -- New York Newsday