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The Examined Life: Memoir
October 24, 2009
Leslie Gilbert-Lurie president, Board of Education, Los Angeles
Michael Greenberg writer
Michael Patrick MacDonald writer
Nancy Rappaport assistant professor, psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Alicia Anstead editor-in-chief, Inside Arts
Alicia Anstead, editor-in-chief of Inside Arts, hosts a panel discussion about how autobiographical writing can help us make sense of a broader world.
Leslie Gilbert-Lurie writes about her mother's experience as a child Holocaust survivor in Bending Toward The Sun. Michael Greenberg tells of his teenage daughter's descent into bipolar mania in Hurry Down Sunshine and life as a writer in Beg, Borrow and Steal. 10 years after publication, Michael Patrick MacDonald's searing memoir, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, is required reading in many schools. In Her Wake is child psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport's story of her mother's suicide.
Authors | autobiography | Biographies | Boston | Holocaust | Memoir | Southie | Journalists | Fiction | Non-Fiction | Writing Process | Lifestyle | North American
Author: Leslie Gilbert-lurie
Publisher: Harper (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 368 pages
Author: Michael Greenberg
Publisher: Vintage (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 256 pages
Author: Michael Greenberg
Publisher: Other Press (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 232 pages
Author: Michael Patrick MacDonald
Publisher: Mariner Books (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 256 pages
Author: Michael Patrick MacDonald
Publisher: Beacon Press (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 296 pages
Author: Nancy Rappaport
Publisher: Basic Books (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 320 pages
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