Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with AutismĮvan Handler, Time on Fire: My Comedy of TerrorsĪnn Hood, Do Not Go Gentle: The Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time Mary Felstiner, Out of Joint: A Private and Public Story of Arthritisīarbara Gordon, I’m Dancing as Fast as I CanĮmily Fox Gordon, The Mockingbird Years: A Life in and Out of Therapy Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss Joan Didion, The Year of Magical ThinkingĪndre Dubus, Broken Vessels Meditations from a Moving Chair Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey through Depression Harold Brodkey, This Wild Darkness: The Story of My DeathĪnatole Broyard, Intoxicated by My Illness Karen Brennan, Being with Rachel: A Story of Memory and Survival You can also click on links on the right hand column that will allow you to get more acquainted with Sue and her work.įor those of you interested in other lists, from Mary Karr and other writers and readers, you can find the ones collected so far in this blog under the list tag.Ĭharles Barber, Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors So helpful! Thanks, Sue, for sharing yourself and your knowledge so generously with your students and for compiling this wonderful list. Note that she has divided memoir into nine separate categories and at the bottom includes a list of journals. Here is the list itself, copied from Sue’s website. In that book you will find a marvelous list, which Sue kindly shares on her own website. She uses this list in her courses on creative nonfiction at Vermont College of the Arts.

I purchased and will review her craft book Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir at a later time. Sue Silverman, author of two bestselling memoirs, led an excellent workshop on memoir. I had the great good fortune this weekend to attend the Bear River Writers’ Conference, about which I will say more later.

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