autobiography

Author Rebecca Solnit shares stories from her life and how her experiences, including the death of a friend, dealing with her mother's illness, and struggling with breast cancer, have influenced who she has become and her work.

Examines the works of a variety of authors including a concise biography, critical extracts, adn bibliography of the author's separate publications: Maya Angelou, Vera Brittain, Frances Fanny Burney, Annie Dillard, Janet Frame, Martha Gellhorn, Lillian Hellman, Violet Hunt, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Alice James, Maxine Hong Kingston.

Presents critical essays on Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.

When Mary Anne receives a class assignment to write her autobiography she realizes she has a lot to say about her life, and tells about the loss of her mother, the time she wanted glasses, and meeting her grandmother again after eleven years.

A simple guide to writing an autobiography with tips on getting started, setting the scene, characters, viewpoint, plots, vocabulary, and more.

Collection of classic and recent Latino writing in English.

Nine authors discuss the problems and pleasures of reinventing the past.

Presents the stories of sixteen African-Americans, proud of their heritage and culture, in which they tell what it was like to grow up in a nation governed by racial discrimination; and includes a selected Civil Rights chronology.

Offers aspiring writers tips on writing fiction and personal narratives with additional information on becoming published.

This book examines how issue-based writing can develop from the germ of an idea into a well-crafted, fully-developed, solidly-researched story that delivers interesting facts, quotes, and anecdotes.