memoir

A learning-teaching journalist shares lessons learned as she revisited the realities of her mother's death and her own eating disorder

—John N. Maclean in an interview about his memoiristic new book "Home Waters"

Award-winning freelancer and outdoorswoman Eva Holland weaves memoir and research in her debut book "Nerve"

A writer who tells intimate stories of others turns his notebook on himself in a searing memoir that undresses his own and America's obesity

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…

Cheryl Strayed has pretty much won the writers’ lottery: Her memoir “Wild” was a boffo bestseller, picked for Oprah’s book club and translated into dozens of languages. It then  became…

The PEN/Faulkner winner talks about the differences in creating characters in memoir vs. fiction, plus finding happiness in Maine

Jessica Stern / Photo by Joel Benjamin Jessica Stern, a Harvard lecturer and fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, is known…

How true does a memoir have to be? That question has been the basis of an ongoing debate kicked off by the revelation, five years ago, that much of James…

Narrative therapy uses a client’s life story to shine a spotlight on how he understands his experience. The concept of an “illness narrative” emerged not in a literary context but over…