Thinking about your legacy? Wondering how to achieve a small measure of immortality? Write a memoir. Jeannette Walls had a hardscrabble youth. Nomadic, poor, often hungry, she grew up in the ...

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Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

It was heartbreaking and stressful and yet, I knew I was meant to write the book. The problem was that I didn’t know how to navigate the stormy waters of memoir and truth telling with my family.

She also teaches memoir writing at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Eckerd College and an online class about writing, publishing and marketing. We asked her to share her writing experience ...

Ever thought about writing non-fiction, be it an essay, a memoir or even a brief snapshot of your life? Why not take the leap? When I'm writing, I think of the late American author Denis Johnson ...

She said memoir writing is a generic term for retelling ... He said part of the writing process is discussing and "batting around ideas," and the class provides that. Fernandez remembered how ...