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The Memoirist’s Dilemma—Vulnerability and Truth in Memoir

Isn’t it amazing that we’re invited into strangers’ living rooms and lives and psyches, even their bedrooms, in a memoir? And we, as memoirists, are told that in order to write a good memoir, we must open up our lives this way! We have to become that open, that...

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Summer is a time of relaxation, vacations, travel and reflection. What better time to gather your thoughts and put pen to paper? Join the National Association of Memoir Writers and take advantage of the “writing season!” NAMW is a membership...

[Featured NAMW Member May 2010] Family Historian & Memoirist Gene Pepper

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An Interview with May NAMW Member of the Month, Gene Pepper Linda: Tell us what you are working on. Gene:I am writing a memoir about growing up in Salt Lake City, Utah. My Dad was a country doctor in a then-small mountain city. My Mother was a housewife and the glue...

[July 15, 2009] Maureen Murdock

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Maureen Murdock: Writing the Truth Guest Speaker: Maureen Murdock Topic: Writing the Truth Date: July 15, 2009 Times: 11 am Pacific | 12 noon Mountain | 1 pm Central | 2 pm Eastern Memoir is not a linear autobiography recounting a fully lived life, but rather a...

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[Featured NAMW Member May 2010] Family Historian & Memoirist Gene Pepper

[July 15, 2009] Maureen Murdock

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