Modern American memoirs
By: selected and edited by Annie Dillard and Cort Conley.
Contributors: Dillard, Annie.; Conley, Cort, 1944-
Edition: 1st HarperPerennial ed.
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
Subjects: Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; American prose literature -- 20th century.; Autobiographies.; United States -- Biography.
Table of contents: title: From A childhood / Harry Crews; title: From Memoir of a modernist's daughter / Eleanor Munro; title: From Wolf willow / Wallace Stegner; title: From Bronx primitive / Kate Simon; title: From Growing up / Russell Baker; title: From Facts of life / Maureen Howard; title: From The sacred journey / Frederick Buechner; title: From Fierce attachments / Vivian Gornick; title: From Confessions of a knife / Richard Selzer; title: From Art and ardor / Cynthia Ozick; title: From A son of the middle border / Hamlin Garland; title: From Stop-time / Frank Conroy; title: From The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X; title: From The earth is enough / Harry Middleton; title: From Clear pictures / Reynolds Price; title: From Black boy / Richard Wright; title: From This boy's life / Tobias Wolff; title: Shoot the piano player / Don Asher; title: From Will's boy / Wright Morris; title: From The woman warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston; title: From Notes of a native son / James Baldwin; title: From This stubborn soil / William Owens; title: From Going to the territory / Ralph Ellison; title: From The duke of deception / Geoffrey Wolff; title: From The same river twice / Chris Offutt; title: From Left handed / Left Handed; title: From Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody; title: From Court of memory / James McConkey; title: Who won the West? / William Kittredge; title: Replacing memory / Barry Lopez; title: From Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston; title: From Blackberry winter / Margaret Mead; title: From Brothers and keepers / John Edgar Wideman; title: The star thrower / Loren Eiseley; title: From The education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams.