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Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir

10 best books like Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir (Sue William Silverman): Leaving the Hall Light On, Scene of the Crime: A Writer 's Guide to Crime Scene Investigation, The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life, Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction, Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities That Keep Readers Captivated, The Invisible Storm, Don't Call Me Mother: A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness, The River of Forgetting: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse, Out of Sync, Two Hearts: An Adoptee's Journey Through Grief to Gratitude

Leaving the Hall Light On
AuthorMadeline Sharples
ISBN0982579489
Leaving the Hall Light On: A Mother's Memoir of Living with Her Son's Bipolar Disorder and Surviving His Suicide charts the near-destruction of one middle-class family whose son committed suicide after a seven-year struggle with bipolar disorder. Madeline Sharples, author, poet and web journalist,...
Scene of the Crime: A Writer 's Guide to Crime Scene Investigation
AuthorAnne Wingate
ISBN0898795184
Others have already noted that this book, written about CSI techniques in 1992, is dated. It is. But, and this is a huge but, if you are writing a story that begins in the early '90s, this is the book that must be on your bookshelf. It will prevent you from making continuity mistakes. In 1992, no one rushed...
The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life
AuthorMarion Roach Smith
ISBN0446584843
A recent study revealed that the Number 1 thing that baby boomers want to do in retirement is write a book....about themselves. It's not that every person has lived such a unique or dramatic life, but we inherently understand that writing memoir-whether it's a book, blog, or just a letter to a child-is...
Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction
AuthorBrenda Miller
ISBN0072512784
This is a great book, and if you look for it, try for the earlier edition with the anthology in the back. The most recent edition took the essays out and that makes no sense. Why read about how to write creative nonfiction and not immediately have an example?

At this point I have read most of the book...
Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities That Keep Readers Captivated
AuthorNancy Kress
ISBN1582973199
A truly unforgettable story is defined by its characters. Their motivations, their changes, their actions compel us to read on, anxiously trying to discern what will happen next.

In Dynamic Characters, award-winning author and Writer's Digest columnist Nancy Kress explores the fundamental...
The Invisible Storm
AuthorJuanima Hiatt
In this powerful memoir, Juanima divulges a plunge into a darkness few are able or willing to speak about: the terrifying, anxiety-driven world of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Her family unaware, Juanima endures abuse and multiple rapes as a child, and at nineteen years of age decides to...
Don't Call Me Mother: A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness
AuthorLinda Joy Myers
ISBN1938314026
At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas to watch the train take her mother away. For the rest of her life, her mother will be only an occasional and troubled visitor. Linda Joy Myers's compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir tells the story...
The River of Forgetting: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse
AuthorJane Rowan
ISBN0981583024
In this brave and touching memoir, Jane Rowan shares her journey through the healing process of recovering from childhood sexual abuse; a past she knew nothing about until vague, foggy memories began invading her mind.

The River of Forgetting: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse opens with...
Out of Sync
AuthorBelinda Nicoll
ISBN0985571306
In 2001, when a couple leaves South Africa for a stay abroad, they land at JFK International Airport on September 11th, unprepared for the sight of smoke billowing from the Manhattan skyline or the horror of a second plane exploding into the North Tower. Over the next ten years, as their host country confronts...
Two Hearts: An Adoptee's Journey Through Grief to Gratitude
AuthorLinda Hoye
Linda Hoye was in her early twenties when she found herself parentless for the second time.

Adopted at five months of age, her heritage, medical history, and access to information about who she was or where she came from was sealed; it was as if she had never existed before being adopted. When...
Finding Gloria ~ Special Edition
AuthorMarianne Curtis
ISBN1481063928
Author Marianne Curtis reveals her own personal, heart-wrenching, and, ultimately, inspiring story in Finding Gloria. Her past is laid bare in achingly honest detail, and her willingness to share her story with resonate with readers everywhere.

Pouring her own hardships out onto the page,...
The Normal One: Life with a Difficult or Damaged Sibling
AuthorJeanne Safer
ISBN0385337566
What is it like to grow up with a sibling who is difficult or damaged?

Few bonds in our lives are as psychologically and emotionally significant as the ones we share with our sisters and brothers, although little has been written about this formative relationship. In this first-of-its-kind...
Blush: A Mennonite Girl Meets a Glittering World
AuthorShirley Hershey Showalter
ISBN0836196260
Little Shirley Hershey, named for a movie star, grew up with her nose pressed to the window of the glittering world. Three locations shaped her-a family farm, a country school, and Lititz Mennonite Church. She later became a college president and then a foundation executive, but the rosy-cheeked,...
Writing the Memoir
AuthorJudith Barrington
ISBN0933377509
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...
Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
AuthorWilliam Zinsser
ISBN0395901502
An indispensable book by writers who have experienced firsthand the rewards and challenges of crafting a memoir

 

Anyone undertaking the project of writing a memoir knows that the events, memories, and emotions of the past often resist the orderly structure of a book. Inventing...
Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
AuthorLouise DeSalvo
ISBN0807072435
In this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to heal the emotional and physical wounds that are an inevitable part of life. Contrary to what most...
Your Life as Story: Discovering the "new Autobiography" and Writing Memoir as Literature
AuthorTristine Rainer
ISBN0874779227
Blending literary scholarship with practical coaching on how to craft short or long life narratives, Rainer traces the history of autobiography from Egyptian inscriptions through its recent evolution on the bestseller lists. Aided by examples from such writers as Maya Angelou, Russell Baker,...
The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again
AuthorSven Birkerts
ISBN1555974961
The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations...
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers
AuthorDinty W. Moore
ISBN0984616667
Unmatched in its focus on a concise and popular emerging genre, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction features 26 eminent writers, editors, and teachers offering expert analysis, focused exercises, and helpful examples of what make the brief essay form such a perfect medium...
Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
AuthorErica Jong
ISBN1585424447
I discovered Jong's 1973 debut FEAR OF FLYING in my basement at 14, and it was the most thrilling overnight-read of my life. I spied it on a forgotten shelf on a private quest for a “sex book,” which was any book in which sex was implied, discussed, or— please, lord— described. The front cover featured...
Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries
AuthorAlice Miller
ISBN0385267622
In her previous (excellent) book, THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD, Alice Miller still wrote from a psychoanalytic frame of reference. Now she has abandoned that model of therapy, believing that it only further instills in the client a repression of feeling memory.

Everyone who thinks that s/he...
Lost & Found: A Memoir of Mothers
AuthorKate St. Vincent Vogl
ISBN0878393315
I expected to find an interesting and intelligent read from this author, but found so much more. There is precision and beauty and a twining of tales that will be meaningful to anyone who has been a mother or had a mother, adoptive or otherwise. Kate St. Vincent Vogl tells the story of coming to terms with...
Sister of Silence
AuthorDaleen Berry
ISBN0615388604
This memoir follows the author’s harrowing journey from teen mom to award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author. At thirteen, Daleen Berry was raped. By sixteen, she was barefoot and pregnant. And at twenty-one she was a mother of four children, tumbling headlong into a dark...
The Deer on a Bicycle: Excursions Into the Writing of Humor
AuthorPatrick F. McManus
ISBN0910055629
For his 14th book, Patrick McManus lets readers inside the laughs. This guide, "The Deer on a Bicycle: Excursions into the Writing of Humor," by one of the best-known and respected humorists, is an insightful and entertaining book for anyone who writes humor or has ever wanted to.
In "The Deer,"...
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