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Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir

10 best books like Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir (William Zinsser): Battle Cry of Freedom, Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, The Art of Memoir, Blue Highways, Wave, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers, The Cat Who Went to Heaven, The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life, Writing the Memoir

Battle Cry of Freedom
AuthorJames M. McPherson
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.

James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and...
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
AuthorFrancine Prose
ISBN0060777052
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire...
The Art of Memoir
AuthorMary Karr
ISBN0062223062
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.

For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning...
Blue Highways
AuthorWilliam Least Heat-Moon
Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.
William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map-if they get on at...
Wave
AuthorSonali Deraniyagala
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since....
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0399563245
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.
Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted...
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
AuthorWill Durant
ISBN0671739166
A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write...
The Cat Who Went to Heaven
AuthorElizabeth Coatsworth
ISBN0689714335
This delightful little fable has a compilation of several meaningful animal stories within its pages with the cream of the crop saved for Good Fortune the cat.First published in 1930 and winner of the 1931 Newbery Medal, this wonderful little classic brings together an intelligent and loving white...
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...
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...
Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
AuthorNatalie Goldberg
ISBN1416535020
I’ve been doing Julia Cameron’s morning pages since November last year. The idea is that you freewrite three pages: anything - everything - that comes to mind. In February I felt I was ready to move on to some morning writing that was a bit more structured, and use some prompts.

I love Natalie...
Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively
AuthorRebecca McClanahan
ISBN1582970254
Let Rebecca McClanahan guide you through an inspiring examination of description in its many forms. With her thoughtful instruction and engaging exercises, you'll learn to develop your senses and powers of observation to uncover the rich, evocative words that accurately portray your mind's images....
Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe
AuthorRory MacLean
ISBN1408896524
'A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time' John le Carré

In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow,...
Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road
AuthorWilliam Least Heat-Moon
ISBN0316110248
From the acclaimed author of Blue Highways, PrairyErth, and Roads to Quoz, a dazzling collection of travel tales from the road.

HERE, THERE, ELSEWHERE draws together for the first time William Least Heat-Moon's greatest short-form travel writing. Personally selected by the writer, these...
King, Queen, Knave
AuthorVladimir Nabokov
ISBN0141185775
'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled...
Carried: How One Mother's Trust in God Helped Her Through the Unthinkable
AuthorMichelle Schmidt
ISBN1629724785
Michelle Schmidt’s plane landed in Oregon where she was meeting her daughter, Annie, for a camping trip. But Annie didn’t show up at the airport to pick up her mother as planned.

Thus began a season of searching and coming up short, of miracles and frustrations, of love poured out and faith...
So Very Much the Best of Us
AuthorBrian Doyle
ISBN0879465492
25 practical passionate perceptive professors share what they are really trying to teach their students.


Two professors asked fellow faculty members at the University of Portland, a Holy Cross institution in the Pacific Northwest, what it is they really teach. The answer is revealed...
So it Goes: Travels in the Aran Isles, Xian and Places In Between
AuthorNicolas Bouvier
From the golden pen of Nicolas Bouvier, author of iconic travel book The Way of the World, comes a collection of travel writings translated here for the first time into English.

In these stories he experiences the Aran isles in mid-winter, glorying outside in the extremities of the wind while...
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