Learn how to write your own life story as you read a published memoir in my upcoming class, Read a Life Story, Write a Life Story, in the Rollins College Lifelong Learning program.
In this class that runs Wednesdays, February 3, 10, 17, & 24 from 10:30am to noon on the Rollins main campus, we'll examine the work…
Whenever Pulitzer-prize winning author Rick Bragg shows up, offering to take me on a trip through the South, I pack my bags and join the caravan. Such is the case with his latest book, My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South. With Bragg as guide, the party tromps through the red…
What Jeannette Walls, Rick Bragg, Tobias Wolff and J.T. Glisson have in common is that they all have written best-selling memoirs that beautifully tell the stories of their lives. To this list, I could add at least a hundred or more titles of memoirs, which are engaging, well written, and so valuable to the aspiring…