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HELPFUL BOOKS FOR MEMOIR WRITING
Writing from Life: Telling Your Soul’s Story.
Susan Wittig Albert, Ph.D
Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
Rita Mae Brown
The Creative Journal: The Art of Finding Yourself.
Lucia Capacchione
Unpuzzling Your Past: A Basic Guide to Genealogy – Second Edition. Betterway Books, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1989.
Emily Anne Croom
Writing A Woman’s Life Ballantine Books, New York.
Carolyn G Heilbrun
Telling your Story: A guide to who you are and who you can be. Doubleday, 1973.
Sam Keen
For All Time: A Complete Guide to Writing Your Family History, 1996 Boynton Cook Publishers, Heineman. Portsmouth, NH.
Charley Kempthorne
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.
Anne Lamott
The Healing Art of Storytelling: A Sacred Journey of Personal Discovery. Hyperion N.Y. 1996.
Richard Stone
Saving Your Life: A Guide to Writing Your Life Story
Glenys Stow
Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds. Harper San Francisco, 1992.
Deena Metzger
Remembering Your Story – A Guide to Spiritual Autobiography. Upper Room Books, Nashville, 1996.
Richard L Morgan
Writing Family Histories and Memoirs. Betterway Books, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1995.
Kirk Polking
The New Diary: How to use a journal for self guidance and expanded creativity
Tristine Rainer
Your Life as Story: Writing the New Autobiography. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1997.
Tristine Rainer
About Life Story Writing, http://www.lifestorywriting.net/aboutbok.htm
Thelly Reahm
Keeping Family Stories Alive: Discovering & Recording the Stories & Reflections of a Lifetime. Second Edition. Hartley & Marks, 1997.
Vera Rosenbluth
Linda Spence
Thinking Like a Writer: A Handy Guide Guaranteed to Inspire You!
Lou Willet Stanek
How to Write the Story of Your Life
Frank P. Thomas
The Story of Your Life: Writing a Spiritual Autobiography. Beacon Press, Boston, 1990.
Dan Wakefield
UNDERPINNINGS
Mourning & Mitzvah. Jewish Lights Publishing. ISBN 1-879045-23-0 which uses Jewish theology and philosophy.
Anne Brener
Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Sven Birkerts
Writing Down the Bones.
Natalie Goldberg
Your Mythic Journey: Finding Meaning in your Life through Writing and Storytelling.
Sam Keen
The Sacred Journey: Your Quest for Life’s High Meaning
Sam Keen
Healing Our Losses
Dr Jack E. Miller
The Stories We Live By: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self The Guilford Press. 1993 New York & London.
Dan McAdams, Ph.D
Up Close and Personal: The Teaching and Learning of Narrative Research (The Narrative Study of Lives)
Dan McAdams, Ph.D
Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life. Harper Perennial.
Thomas Moore
So that your values live on - Ethical Wills and how to prepare them. Jewish Lights Publishing. Woodstock, Vermont 1991.
Jack & Nathaniel Stampfer Riemer
Doing Oral History
Donald A Ritchie
Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life
Janna Malamud Smith
Family Secrets: How Telling and Not Telling Affect Our Children, Our Relationships, and Our Lives
Harriet Webster
Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir.
William Zinsser, editor
How to Write a Memoir - Audio Tape
William Zinsser, reader
Seat of the Soul. Simon & Schuster 1989.
Gary Zukav
Soul Stories. Simon & Schuster 2000.
Gary Zukav
MEMOIRS
Stumbling Toward Enlightenment Celestial Arts, Berkeley, CA. 1997.
Geri Larkin
Tap Dancing to Zen. Celestial Arts, Berkeley, CA. 2000
Geri Larkin
Writing Women’s Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers.
Susan Cahill, editor
True North: A Memoir
Jill Ker Conway
Written by Herself: Women’s Memoirs, Vol. 1 & 11
Jill Ker Conway, editor
Any Given Day
Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux
The Liars’ Club: A Memoir Penquin Books.
Mary Karr
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
C. S. Lewis
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir
Jacki Lyden
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
James McBride
Angela’s Ashes A Memoir
Frank McCourt
Night
Elie Wiesel
This Boy’s Life. A Memoir
Tobias Wolff
Rita Mae Brown
BUSINESS BOOKS – MEMOIR
How to Open and Operate a Home-Based Writing Business : An Unabridged Guide. The Globe Pequote Press. Old Saybrook, Connecticut, 1994.
Lucy V. Parker
The Self-Publishing Manual – 12th Edition. Para Publishing, Santa Barbara, Calif. 2000.
Dan Poynter
The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing. Writer’s Digest Books. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994.
Tom & Marilyn Ross
NEWLETTERS & SCRAPBOOKING
Making Memory Books by Hand 1999.
Kristina Feliciano
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