Modern American memoirs

Dillard, Annie. (Added Author). Conley, Cort, 1944- (Added Author).

Summary: This astonishing collection of excerpts drawn from extraordinary 20th century American memoirs delights, surprises and enriches. Including work by James Baldwin, Kate Simon, Geoffrey Wolf and Margaret Mead, each entry is preceded by a biography of the writer. Funny, poignant and pensive, all are indicative of a time and place in history.

Record details

ISBN: 0060927631
ISBN: 9780060927639
ISBN: 0060170409
ISBN: 9780060170400
Physical Description: print
xii, 449 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: 1st HarperPerennial ed.
Publisher: New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 1996, �1995.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Childhood / 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 Adams.