Read a Memoir, Write a Memoir

Before continuing with the various aspects of writing a memoir, it might be helpful for you to read a few while contemplating writing your own. You might enjoy the ones listed below. Have fun exploring others.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls: This memoir acquaints the reader with the author’s dysfunctional family. It is a story of family survival despite parental mental illness and alcoholism.

Eighty Acres, by Ronald Jager: This memoir depicts life on the author’s eighty acre farm around the time of World War II.

Growing Up, by Russell Baker: A Pulitzer Prize winning memoir about the author’s life growing up during the depression with his single mother.