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Authors and Titles of Memoirs and How to Locate Others
 
The following list is not exhaustive, merely a sample of authors and titles of memoirs. Instructions for finding other authors who write in this genre follow the list. Titles available in Hutchins Library have Call Numbers provided. Titles not held by Hutchins are available from other libraries through InterLibrary Loan. (Please allow 7-10 days.)

Ackerley, J.R. – My Dog Tulip 828.912 A182m
Alhadeff, Gini –The Sun at Midday
Allison, Dorothy – Two or Three Things I Know for       Sure A4388t
Angelou, Maya – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings       828 A584i 2002
Baker, Russell – Good Times 070.924 B1684g
      – Growing Up 070.924 B1684
Balakian, Peter – Black Dog of Fate 821.914 B171b
Barrington, Judith – History and Geography
      – Lifesaving
Bedford, Sybille – A Visit to Don Otavio
Beren, Peter – The Writer’s Legal Companion
Bingham, Sallie – Passion and Prejudice
      929.2 B613bi
Bordewich, Fergus – My Mother’s Ghost
Bunin, Brad – The Writer’s Legal Companion
Conley, Dalton – Honky – NetLibrary (online)
Conroy, Frank – Stop-Time
Conway, Jill Ker – The Road from Coorain                   305.4099 C767r
      –True North 305.409 C767t
Cunningham, Laura Shaine – Sleeping                           Arrangements
Daniel, John – Looking After
Dillard, Annie – An American Childhood 828 D578a
Diski, Jenny – Skating to Antarctica
Ditlevsen, Tove – Early Spring
Drake, Barbara – Peace at Heart
      – Dreaming
Durrell, Gerald – My Family and Other Animals             574.9495 D965m
Ehrlich, Gretel – A Match to the Heart
Frazier, Ian – Family977.125 F848f
Friedman, Bonnie – Writing Past Dark
      808.02 F911w 1993


Gates, Jr., Henry Louis – Colored People
      975.4 G259c

      – The Future of the Race305.896 G259f
      – Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man                 305.896 G259t
Gordon, Mary – The Shadow Man 828.914 G664s
      – Seeing Through Places 828.914 G664se
Graves, Lucia – A Woman Unknown
Grealy, Lucy – Autobiography of a Face
      362.196 G786a

Griffin, Susan – Growing Up
Hamilton–Paterson, James – The Great Deep
Hampl, Patricia – Virgin Time 230 H229v
      – I Could Tell You Stories 828.914 H229i 1999
Hellman, Lillian – Pentimento 822 H477zhp
Hoffman, Richard – Half the House
Hogan, Linda – Dwellings
Jordan, Teresa – Riding the White Horse Home
Kazin, Alfred – Starting Out in the Thirties
      828.914 K23

      – A New York Jew 820.9 K23n
Kincaid, Jamaica – “On Seeing England for the First           Time”
Kupfer, Fern – Before and After Zachariah K958b
Kusz, Natalie – Road Song 979.805 K97r
Kuusisto, Stephen – Planet of the Blind
Lamott, Anne – Bird by Bird 808.02 L235b
Le Guin, Ursula K. – “Places Names”
Lessing, Doris – Under My Skin 828.914 L639u
Levertov, Denise – Tesserae
Levi, Primo – Survival in Auschwitz
     
940.547 L664s 1996
Mairs, Nancy – Remembering the Bone House                   828.914 M229r
McCourt, Frank – Angela’s Ashes 929.208 M131a
Merrill, James – A Different Person
Monette, Paul – Last Watch of the Night
      – Becoming a Man
Morrison, Toni – Beloved M8822be
Norris, Kathleen – Dakota978.303 N856d
Nye, Naomi Shihab – Never in a Hurry
Ortiz, Roxanne Dunbar – Red Dirt
Rorem, Ned – Knowing When to Stop
Ruiz, Judy – “Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy”
Sage, Lorna – Bad Blood
Sandor, Marjorie – The Night Gardener
Santiago, Esmerelda – When I Was Puerto Rican
See, Carolyn – Dreaming
Shackleton, Ernest – South 919.9 S523s
Simpson, Eileen – Poets in Their Youth 821 S6124
      – Reversals 362.196 S613r
Spender, Stephen – World Within World

Tall, Deborah – The Island of the White Cow
Vidal, Gore – Palimpsest 828.914 V648p
Walker, Alice – The Color Purple W177c 1992
      – The Same River Twice 828 W177sa
Weigl, Bruce – The Circle of Hanh
White, Evelyn C. – Ode to Aretha
Williams, C.K. – Misgivings
Wilson, Barbara – Blue Windows
Woolf, Virginia – “22 Hyde Park Gate”
      – “Professions for Women”
 
Literature Resource Center


Use the following steps to locate an author who has written memoirs:

1. From the Electronic Resources page select Literature Resource Center

Literature Resourc Center select

2. At the Literature Resource Center home page, select "Authors by Type."

LRC - select Authors by Type

3. On the Authors by Type page, select the following, as desired:
  1. Author Ethnicity - choose from six American ethnicities (optional)
  2. Author Nationality - choose from 120+ nationalities (optional)
  3. Genre - select 'Memoirs'
  4. Theme - select fromnearly 1,000 themes (optional)
Authors by Type example
 
BANC


Use the following steps to locate an author who has written memoirs:

1. Choose 'Advanced Search'
2. a. In the first 'Search for' box, type 'biography'
    b. In the first 'Search in' box, select 'Subject'
3. Select 'AND'
4. a. In the second 'Search for' box, type words or phrases (select 'as a phrase' if a phrase is used)
    b. In the second 'Search in' box, select 'Keyword Anywhere'

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