Memoir
Subtitle: a history
By: Ben Yagoda.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781594488863
Subjects: Autobiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Author's note: by way of definition; title: Memoir nation; title: The beginning; title: These autobiographical times of ours; title: The United States of autobiography; title: Interlude: truth, memory and autobiography; title: Eminent victorian autobiography; title: One hundred percent Americans; title: Modernists and movie stars; title: Looking on the bright side, mainly: mid-century memoirs; title: Songs of myself; title: Truth and consequences.