Modern American memoirs / selected and edited by Annie Dillard and Cort Conley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dillard, Annie.

Conley, Cort, 1944-

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

American prose literature--20th century.

American prose literature.

Autobiographies.

United States--Biography.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 449 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York, NY] : HarperPerennial a division of HarperCollinsPublishers, [1996]

Summary:

This astonishing collection of excerpts drawn from extraordinary 20th century American memoirs delights, surprises and enriches. Including work by James Baldwin, Kate Simon, Geoffrey Wolf and Margaret Mead, each entry is preceded by a biography of the writer. Funny, poignant and pensive, all are indicative of a time and place in history.

Contents:

From A childhood / Harry Crews

From Memoir of a modernist's daughter / Eleanor Munro

From Wolf willow / Wallace Stegner

From Bronx primitive / Kate Simon

From Growing up / Russell Baker

From Facts of life / Maureen Howard

From The sacred journey / Frederick Buechner

From Fierce attachments / Vivian Gornick

From Confessions of a knife / Richard Selzer

From Art and ardor / Cynthia Ozick

From A son of the middle border / Hamlin Garland

From Stop-time / Frank Conroy

From The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X

From The earth is enough / Harry Middleton

From Clear pictures / Reynolds Price

From Black boy / Richard Wright

From This boy's life / Tobias Wolff

Shoot the piano player / Don Asher

From Will's boy / Wright Morris

From The woman warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston

From Notes of a native son / James Baldwin

From This stubborn soil / William Owens

From Going to the territory / Ralph Ellison

From The duke of deception / Geoffrey Wolff

From The same river twice / Chris Offutt

From Left handed / Left Handed

From Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody

From Court of memory / James McConkey

Who won the West? / William Kittredge

Replacing memory / Barry Lopez

From Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston

From Blackberry winter / Margaret Mead

From Brothers and keepers / John Edgar Wideman

The star thrower / Loren Eiseley

From The education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams.

Notes:

"A hardcover edition of this book was published n 1995 by HarperCollinsPublishers."

"First Harper/Perennial edition published 1996."

"Designed by Nancy Singer."

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

ISBN:

0060170409

9780060170400

0060927631

OCLC:

1013793037