Modern American Memoirs

In Modern American Memoirs, two very discerning writers and readers have selected samples from 35 of the finest memoirs written in this century, including contributions by such diverse writers as Margaret Mead, Malcolm X, Maxine Hong Kingston, Loren Eisely, and Zora Neale Hurston. Chosen for their value as excellent examples of the art of biography as well as for their superb writing, the excerpts present a broad range of American life, and offer vivid insight into the real-life events that shaped their authors. Here, readers can learn about the time when Harry Crews, playing as a boy, fell into a vat of boiling water with a dead hog; Chris Offutt joined the circus and watched a tattooed woman swallow a fluorescent light; and Frank Conroy practiced yo-yo tricks.

Introduction
from A Childhood	p. 1
from Memoir of a Modernist's Daughter	p. 19
from Wolf Willow	p. 24
from Bronx Primitive	p. 40
from Growing Up	p. 49
from Facts of Life	p. 68
from The Sacred Journey	p. 80
from Fierce Attachments	p. 91
from Confessions of a Knife	p. 100
from Art and Ardor	p. 108
from A Son of the Middle Border	p. 116
from Stop-time	p. 132
from The Autobiography of Malcolm X	p. 142
from The Earth Is Enough	p. 158
from Clear Pictures	p. 172
from Black Boy	p. 178
from This Boy's Life	p. 193
Shoot the Piano Player	p. 205
from Will's Boy	p. 222
from The Woman Warrior	p. 231
from Notes of a Native Son	p. 248
from This Stubborn Soil	p. 269
from Going to the Territory	p. 280
from The Duke of Deception	p. 288
from The Same River Twice	p. 297
from Left Handed	p. 315
from Coming of Age in Mississippi	p. 321
from Court of Memory	p. 345
Who Owns the West?	p. 355
Replacing Memory	p. 372
from Dust Tracks on a Road	p. 390
from Blackberry Winter	p. 396
from Brothers and Keepers	p. 407
The Star Thrower	p. 416
from The Education of Henry Adams	p. 433
Afterword	p. 441
Acknowledgments	p. 447
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Modern American Memoirs

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