My Words Are Gonna Linger: The Art of Personal History - Softcover

Yost, Paula Stallings; McNees, Pat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098201340X ISBN 13: 9780982013403

Publisher: Personal History Press, 2014

Synopsis

Join us on this delightful venture into personal storytelling. You may glimpse worlds you didn't know, characters who could have walked onstage right from your life, scenes and situations you'll have trouble forgetting. We suspect that even with the few celebrities who appear in this anthology, you'll experience an emotional resonance - a feeling of coming home to the old days, to essential memories and home truths.

About this title

About the Author:

Paula Stallings Yost, Editor
President and Founder of LifeSketches & Heirloom Memoirs Publishing, Paula Yost has helped hundreds of people record their memoirs in book form or as an oral history or transcript. She served as co-editor and contributed her own stories for a Story Circle Network anthology titled What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest, published by the University of Texas Press in 2007.
A popular speaker on the national circuit, Paula also offers informative, compelling workshops. For example, "From Memory to Memoir" covers basic life-writing techniques. "Cooking Up the Memories" centers on creating family history cookbooks. "The Healing Power of Story" is a powerful series of classes about the therapeutic value of journaling and writing life stories.
Paula is an active member and past vice president of the Association of Personal Historians, an international trade organization of professional writers, videographers and oral historians. She also is a member of the Texas Oral Historians Association and serves as editor of the Story Circle Network Book Review Website. Paula's home is east of Dallas, Texas.

Pat McNees, Editor
After graduating with honors from UCLA, and two years' graduate work at Stanford University, Pat McNees began her career as an editor in book publishing for Harper & Row and Fawcett. Then Pat began freelancing as an editor, rewriter and writer of service pieces, personal and humorous essays, profiles, and narrative nonfiction.
In Washington, DC, she edited and rewrote documents of varying lengths and also wrote several thousand executive summaries, developing a special niche: analyzing and summarizing reports and conference discussions. She has written about business, economics, the developing world, women's issues, education, health, medicine, and medical research. Pulling together a book about global public policy, she realized that public health policy was far more compelling to her than other areas and has been writing about medicine and health ever since.
At the Writer's Center in Bethesda, she teaches a workshop on Life Stories and Legacy Writing, a nontraditional workshop of short personal writing designed to help participants capture their personal and family legacy for the next generation.
Her feature articles have appeared in New York Magazine, Parents, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. She has edited four literary anthologies and has written several life stories and organizational histories. Her 2003 book for the National Science Foundation ("New Formulas for America's Workforce: Girls in Science and Engineering") which sold out its first printing in five weeks. A later project had Pat writing stories about patients in research, drawing on her experiences writing a prize-winning history of Building 10, the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health. She is now working on a history of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Pat, who has received several awards for her writing, is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Association of Health Care Journalists, Authors Guild, National Association of Science Writers, PEN, STC, and the Association of Personal Historians. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Review:

This anthology sings with Walt Whitman's spirit of democracy, a celebration of our diversity. Each selection is a song of self; some have perfect pitch, some the waver of authenticity. All demonstrate the power of the word to salvage, from the unrush of life, nuggets worth saving.
Tristine Rainer, author, Your Life As Story, Writing the New Autobiography --Personal History Press

At last, a collection that shows the 'why, what, and how' behind memoir as legacy. Spanning more than a century, these intriguing reflections of personal as well as global, social and political history are told in the unique voice and viewpoint of each storyteller.
Susan Wittig Albert, author, Writing from Life; founder, Story Circle Network. --Personal History Press

About this edition

• Publisher: Personal History Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 098201340X
• ISBN 13: 9780982013403
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320