Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life by Michael Patrick MacDonald, Matt Becker, Alice Kaplan, Patricia Hampl, June Cross, Fenton Johnson, Elaine Tyler May, Annette Kobak, Carlos Eire, D.J. Waldie, Cheri Register, Samuel G. Freedman, Helen Epstein

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Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life

Michael Patrick MacDonald, Matt Becker, Alice Kaplan, Patricia Hampl, June Cross, Fenton Johnson, Elaine Tyler May, Annette Kobak, Carlos Eire, D.J. Waldie, Cheri Register, Samuel G. Freedman, Helen Epstein

224 pages • 3 editions

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"The memoir has been, on the one hand, a startling success story in American publishing in the past quarter century. But it has also been literature's changeling, the bad apple, ever suspect, slightly illegitimate, a brassy parvenu talking too muc...