Favorite Memoirs

Among too many good memoirs to list, these thrilled me to my toes:

Alden, Paulette Bates. Crossing the Moon

Caldwell, Gail. Let’s Take the Long Way Home (Noted & Noted & Noted.)

Crews, Harry. Childhood: The Biography of a Place (Reviewed.)

Dillard, Annie. An American Childhood (Reviewed.)

——. For the Time Being (Not a memoir but what the heck. Reviewed.)

——. The Writing Life (She calls it a memoir, and it is. Reviewed.)

Grealy, Lucy. The Autobiography of a Face (Noted.)

Grimes, Tom. Mentor (Q&A)

Karr, Mary. Lit (Oh. My. God. Reviewed.)

Lethem, Jonathan. The Disappointment Artist (“The Beards” is perfect.)

Martin, Lee. From Our House

——. Such a Life (Memoir essays. Review, Interview.)

Moore, Dinty W. Between Panic and Desire (A postmodern peach.)

Nabokov, Vladimir. Speak, Memory (I love to hate this classic. Reviewed 1 & Reviewed 2.)

Orr, Gregory. The Blessing (Reviewed.)

Patchett, Ann. Truth and Beauty

Ray, Janisse. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

——.Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home

Roth, Philip. Patrimony

Smith, Alison. Name All the Animals (Simply perfect. Reviewed.)

Strauss, Darin. Half a Life (Reviewed.)

Strayed, Cheryl. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail (Noted.)

Updike, John. Self-Consciousness (Better than Nabokov’s. Reviewed.)

Woolf, Virginia. Moments of Being (Noted & Noted.)

Wolff, Tobias. In Pharaoh’s Army

——. This Boy’s Life

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