|
|
 |
| 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 – Family – 977.125
F848f
Friedman, Bonnie – Writing Past Dark
808.02 F911w 1993
Gates, Jr., Henry Louis – Colored People
975.4 G259c
–
The Future of the Race – 305.896 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 – Dakota – 978.303
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
|
|
2. At the Literature
Resource Center home page, select "Authors by Type."
|
|
3. On the Authors
by Type page, select the following, as desired:
- Author Ethnicity - choose from six American ethnicities
(optional)
- Author Nationality - choose from 120+ nationalities (optional)
- Genre - select 'Memoirs'
- Theme - select fromnearly 1,000 themes (optional)
|
|
| |
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'
|
|
|
|
|
