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| | SELF-KNOWLEDGE
THROUGH WRITING YOUR MEMOIR
Eleanor Lincoln, CSJ
Women at the Well Ministry, St. Paul, Minnesota
© 2003
A retired professor of English from The College of St. Catherine,
Dr. Lincoln has given numerous workshops on memoir writing.
This online workshop is adapted for your personal use.
Part 9: A Selective Bibliography
“Memoirs are deeply reflective stories
that capture and communicate portions
of the inestimable mysteries of life and living.”
(Gilmour, p. 13)
[Note: Some of the following writers have more than one publication, but the books listed here are recommended for the purposes of this retreat workshop.]
ABOUT EFFECTIVE WRITING AND ABOUT WRITING MEMOIRS
Baldwin, Christina. Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.
Conway, Jill Ker. When Memory Speaks. New York: 1998).
Gilmour, Peter. The Wisdom of Memoir: Reading and Writing Sacred Texts. Winona, MN: Saint Mary's Press, 1997.
Goldberg, Natalie. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within. Boston: Shambhala, 1986.
__________. Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life. New York: Bantam, 1990.
Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir. Ed. William Zinsser. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Moffat, Mary Jane. The Times of Our Lives: A Guide to Writing Autobiography and Memoir. Santa Barbara: John Daniel, 1989.
Welty, Eudora. One Writer's Beginning. New York: Warner, 1984.
CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY MEMOIRS
Allende, Isabel. Paula. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1994.
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Bantam, 1969.
Baker, Russell. Growing Up. New York: Congdon and Reed, 1983.
Buechner, Frederick. The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days. San Francisco: HarperSan Francisco, 1993.
Conway, Jill Ker. The Road from Coorain. New York: Vintage, 1989.
Dillard, Annie. An American Childhood. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.
Fairbanks, Evelyn. Days of Rondo. St. Paul: Minnesota Hisorical Society, 1990.
Fremont, Helen. After Long Silence: A Memoir. New York: Random House (Delta), 1999.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.
Houston, Jean. My Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996.
Lively, Penelope. Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
MacLean, Norman. A River Runs Through It. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1976.
Quindlen, Anna. Living Out Loud. New York: Ballantine, 1981.
Toth, Susan Allen. Blooming: A Small-Town Girlhood. New York: Ballantine, 1981.
Wollf, Tobias. This Boy's Life: A Memoir. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.
MEMOIRS OF PLACE
Hampl, Patricia. A Romantic Education. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981.
Imaging Home: Writing from the Midwest. Ed. Mark Vinz and Thom Tammaro. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1995.
Mayle, Peter. A Year in Provence. New York: Vintage, 1991.
Norris, Kathleen. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1993.
Toth, Susan Allen. My Love Affair with England: A Traveler's Memoir. New York: Ballantine, 1992.
Williams, Terry Tempest. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. New York: Vintage, 1991.
REFLECTIVE MEMOIRS
Angelou, Maya. Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now. New York: Random House, 1993.
Bender, Sue. Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish. San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1991.
Buechner, Frederick. Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation. San Francisco: HarperSan Francisco, 1991.
Augustine, Saint. The Confessions. (several editions)
Day, Dorothy. The Long Loneliness. New York: Harper, 1952.
Goldberg, Natalie. Long Outer Highway: Waking Up in America. New York: Bantam, 1993.
Hampl, Patricia. I Could Tell You Stories. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
__________. Virgin Time. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992.
Koller, Alice. An Unknown Woman: A Journey to Self-Discovery. New York: Bantam, 1981.
Lewis, Clive Staples. Surprised by Joy. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1955.
Merton, Thomas. The Seven Storey Mountain. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1948.
Norris, Kathleen. Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith. New York: Riverhead, 1998.
__________. The Cloister Walk. New York: Putnam, 1996.
Quindlen, Anna. How Reading Changed My Life. Westminster, MD: Ballantine, 1998.
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