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• Memoir as Medicine

  the Healing Power of Writing Your Messy, Imperfect, Unruly (but Gorgeously Yours) Life Story

  Aronie, Nancy Slonim, 1941-

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  Read about the healing benefits of memoir writing and gain practical tools for writing one.

• Writing Your Life

  a Guide to Writing Autobiographies

  Borg, Mary

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  You've decided to write down your life story. Now what? Look through this easy-to-follow guide and find examples, tips, activities, and more to help you preserve and publish your memories.

• The Butterfly Hours

  Transforming Memories Into Memoir

  Dann, Patty,

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  Filled with prompts to get you writing, this book is meant to excite and encourage as you bring up and write down your memories.

• Body Work

  the Radical Power of Personal Narrative

  Febos, Melissa,

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  Drawing on her own experiences, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir "Whip Smart" discusses how to confront the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing about our most intimate lives.

• Old Friend From Far Away

  the Practice of Writing Memoir

  Goldberg, Natalie

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  Through timed, associative, and meditative exercises, writing teacher Goldberg guides you to the attentive state of thought in which you discover and open forgotten doors of memory.

• Your Life Is a Book

  How to Craft and Publish Your Memoir

  Peterson, Brenda, 1950-

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  This writer's guide to the memoir is rich with insight, advice, storytelling, and encouragement. Memoirist Brenda Peterson and New York literary agent, Sarah Jane Freymann team up to share with you their expertise in writing and publishing your life…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Why We Write About Ourselves

  Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature

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  Twenty of America's bestselling memoirists share their innermost thoughts and hard-earned tips with veteran author Meredith Maran, revealing what drives them to tell their personal stories, and the nuts and bolts of how they do it.

• Art of Memoir

  Karr, Mary

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  Karr breaks down the key elements of great literary memoir, opening our concepts of memory and identity, and illuminating the cathartic power of reflecting on the past