TURNING MEMORIES INTO MEMOIRS: A HANDBOOK FOR WRITING LIFESTORIES - Softcover

Ledoux, Denis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0961937327 ISBN 13: 9780961937324

Publisher: Heinemann, 1993

Synopsis

Provides exercises which discuss interview and research methods, offers technical tips on writing style and grammar, and gives advice on overcoming possible obstacles

About this title

About the Author:

Denis Ledoux is the author of the best-selling lifewriting books on the market. The author of several short-story collections, in 1989, he won a Maine Fiction Award. In both1991 and 1996, he received a Maine Individual Writing Fellowship. He coaches and edits individual writers and leads an internatinal network of lifewriting workshop leaders. His work has been written up in Time, Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere. He lives and writes in Lisbon Falls, Maine.

Review:

"Anyone intent of writing a family history should read Turning Memories Into Memoirs." -- Baltimore Sun

"Turning Memories Into Memoirs is lively, timely, and practical" -- Yankee Magazine

"very beneficialhelps writers get off to a great start." -- ALA Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0961937327
• ISBN 13: 9780961937324
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208