Modern American Memoirs Paperback - 1996
by Annie Dillard
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.
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Harry Crews was born the son of a farmer in Bacon Country, Georgia, and grew up there.
From the rear cover
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.
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- Title Modern American Memoirs
- Author Annie Dillard
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 1996-08-30
- ISBN 9780060927639 / 0060927631
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 1.2 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 3.05 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects United States, Authors, American - 20th century
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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