First-person America
By: edited and with an introd. by Ann Banks.
Contributors: Banks, Ann.; Federal Writers' Project.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf : distributed by Random House
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Oral history.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918.; United States -- Biography.
Description: A collection of 80 life histories, written between 1938 and 1942 by the Federal Writer's Projects, of men and women from all parts of the country.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [273]-278.
Eighty narratives originally recorded by members of the Federal Writers' Project.
Includes index.