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Since Writing the Memoir came out in early 1997 it has sold roughly 80,000 copies and is consistently praised as "the best book on memoir out there." It is thought-provoking, explanatory, and practical: each chapter ends with writing exercises. It covers everything from questions of truth and ethics to questions of craft and the crucial retrospective voice. An appendix provides information on legal issues.
Judith Barrington, an award-winning memoir writer and acclaimed writing teacher, is attuned to the forces, both external and internal, that work to stop a writer; her tone is respectful of the difficulties and encouraging of taking risks. Her nimble prose, her deep belief in the importance of this genre, and her delight in the rich array of memoirists writing today make this book more than the typical "how-to" creative writing book. In this second edition the author has added new material and reflects on issues raised since Writing the Memoir was written, early in the memoir boom.
"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
Judith Barrington is the author of Lifesaving: A Memoir and numerous individual memoirs which have been published in literary magazines and anthologies. She is the author of three volumes of poetry: Trying to Be an Honest Woman, History and Geography, and Horses and the Human Soul (forthcoming in 2002). She has taught creative writing for the past twenty years.
- Sales Rank: #37978 in Books
- Brand: Brand: The Eighth Mountain Press
- Published on: 2002-02-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.40" h x .50" w x 5.40" l, .55 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
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From Library Journal
Seems like everyone wants to write his or her own memoirs these days. Memoirist and creative writing teacher Barrington (An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality, LJ 10/1/91) tells us how to do it. Her practical guide leads both experienced and novice writers through the writing process from idea to publication, addressing such technical problems as theme selection, voice, tone, form, plot, scene, and character development, as well as how to stimulate creative thinking and build necessary discipline. Barrington draws on the writings of Alice Walker, Kathleen Norris, Annie Dillard, Frank Conroy, and Virginia Woolf to illustrate her techniques. Her common-sense approach strives to temper the emotional honesty of the genre with the integrity of artistic skill. Libraries supporting a writers' group (for which Barrington includes a do's-and-don'ts section) will want several copies. Academic and school libraries might want it to supplement creative writing curriculums.?Denise S. Sticha, Seton Hill Coll. Lib., Greensburg, Pa.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
The current renaissance in literary memoirs pleases readers and inspires writers, while raising a number of questions about this most fluid and open-ended of genres. Barrington recognizes and addresses both the memoir's great appeal and the issues it raises pertaining to voice, structure, the transformation of fact into truth, and the elevation of personal experience and revelation into art. Like many fellow contemporary memoirists, Barrington is a poet who found herself "needing the expansiveness of prose," but as soon as she began writing her memoir, she realized how challenging a form it is and how unsettling the act of writing about one's life so openly, without the artifice of poetry or the mask of fiction, can be. After asking the key question, "What were the rules of memoir anyway?" she ended up answering it with this intelligent and insightful book, which combines stimulating literary analysis with a great deal of practical information and excellent advice. Donna Seaman
About the Author
Judith Barrington is the author of Lifesaving: A Memoir, winner of the Lambda Book Award and finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir and the Oregon Book Award. Many short memoirs have been published in literary magazines and anthologies and have won awards including the Sonora Review Annual Nonfiction Award and the Andres Berger Award for Creative Nonfiction. She is the author of three volumes of poetry, Trying to Be an Honest Woman, History and Geography, and Horses and the Human Soul (forthcoming). She has taught creative writing for the past twenty years at universities and summer writing workshops.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Absolute FAVORITE [TOP PICK] on Memoir Writing!
By Jennifer C. Lopez @theJennieration
The best book on Memoir Writing I have ever Read!
I read this book and marked it up!! It isn't just a fantastic reference guide, it is a thought-provoking look at the Art of Memoir and the ample array of styles, characteristics and qualities a Memoir can take on.
When you lose your fear and allow yourself to be intimate with the details of your story, a Memoir can be juicer than the best Fiction novel.
I love how Judith elaborates on the import of True Memoir writing and what makes it an incredibly unique genre from other Non-Fiction.
Her expertise in writing pushes you to examine the traditional perceptions of the term Memoir and see it in a whole new light.
She shares what makes for the most fertile of subjects and getting over any 'grapplings' you might have about how to present your story. She provides value in her book, sharing details about what makes an author's own Memoir writing become something of great value to others.
This book is thoughtfully executed down to every example and recommendation-- including answers to critical question a published or an apprentice writer might have.
Judith Barrington clearly wrote it with the purest intentions of assisting all true writers.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Helped me write my memoir - recommend writers read this book!
By H. L. Blickhan
I decided to get serious about writing a memoir a few months ago. It's been a long time coming, but I feel now is the time. As usual, I research the best of the best of books before buying them. I would rather take the time to study a book and its author than waste time reading one that won't benefit me in some way. I'm so glad I did so with this book. The author did a fine job explaining the memoir and how to effectively write one.
I found most helpful the topics of: voice, legal issues, and how to use summary vs. scene. I was lacking in scene writing as I typed away at my memoir. This book has helped shape my writing in scenes and voice so that I (hopefully) have brought the book more to life. Also, the author explains using the senses - visuals which help us put a character together such as scents and like color of skin. I was able to rewrite some of my memoir about a friend who wore Bohemian-like clothing when we were twelve:
"Sometimes we invited friends like one I met who Mom did not approve of in the least. Her name was Janet and she was a smoker already at age twelve. I liked her, even though Mom had her suspicions. Janet was a free spirit who wore what she wanted, talked like she wanted, and was an interesting person. Often she wore purple with dangling things on her wrists and clothes. She smelled flowery with perfume and her long, flowing hair and dangly earrings matched her nonchalant kind of attitude. She was allowed to wear purple makeup and lipstick to match her clothes. I was not yet allowed anything but a very pale eye shadow and a hint of blush. Mom called it rouge. "You can wear a light pink eye shadow and a little rouge, Tammy, but that's it. When you turn sixteen, you can do what you want, but you're not going to look like a clown like Janet.""
I believe even if a fiction writer is struggling at all, this would be a great book. The legal issues and answers about whether to include family and sensitive issues would be discarded, but it would still be worthwhile. The book is packed with great help, but is not lengthy and does not drone on like other ones I've picked up (and only read portions of due to the redundancy).
One of the main things I got from this book is to write for the reader. Don't write for yourself. Don't expect anything from the reader except their attention. If writing about hard topics like child abuse, rape, losing a child, and the like, the author says that the reader wants to know that the person made it out okay. She wants to know if the person is okay and not looking for pity. Whether incorporating humor to these tough subjects is up to the author, but however it's done, never expect the reader to wonder, "well, what happened and did she survive it alright?" I chose to use humor for my memoir. It's tough, but with a lot of hard work, can be done!
Also, the author gives many memoirs to look into for style and such. I chose to buy three of the books she mentioned. "When I Was Puerto Rican" and "Half the House" are two of them that I am currently reading.
I'm sure I'll be rereading this book as time goes on.
- Tamara Blickhan
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A Nice Direct Book on Memoir Writing
By William
A great book! I liked Barrington's direct writing style and found the book very useful. (As a note, given its aged 2002 Copyright I almost passed on this book. Nevertheless, after seeing it recommended in a couple of other books I decided to buy it. I am glad that I did.) In combination with Mary Karr's newer book, The Art of Memoir, and some intensive digging through multiple memoir writing blogs, I have found most of the information that I needed.
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