![]() Memoir is a search to understand the human condition-to tell a personal, resonating story. ![]() Memoir is not a chronological recitation of a life. What’s a memoir? Or to clear up a prevailing misconception, how is memoir different from autobiography?īeth: I think it’s so much easier to define memoir by what it’s not, which of course I do in the opening pages of the book. ![]() Finally, I felt compelled to save others from the mistakes I’ve made, and to offer cautions.Īndy: Let’s start with the basics. I grew intent, too, on sharing my thoughts about the many memoirs that have inspired and instructed me and to liberate this much-tarnished form from some of the damaging mythology. I was full of this love for the young people I meet and teach I wanted to celebrate them and what they taught me. Why did you decide to write Handling the Truth?īeth: Handling emerged somewhat despite myself. Beth teaches creative non-fiction at The University of Pennsylvania.Īndy: Beth, there are a lot of books out there about the art and craft of memoir writing. She is the author of five memoirs, one of which was a finalist for the National Book Award. ![]() Beth is the author of Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir published this year by Gotham Books. Today we are going to talk with Beth Kephart about writing memoir. ![]()
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