I once took a novel writing course that my professor said would stretch us to our limits. It did. I hated the draft of my novel: all that seemed... read more
"But some readers of memoir are looking for secrets, for complete transparency on the part of the author, as if the point is confession, and the process of reading memoir,... read more
ALEXANDRA RISEN’s Unearthed: Love, Acceptance and Other Lessons from an Abandoned Garden is her meditation on our interconnectedness with nature and family, a memoir published this summer in the United States... read more
MARIE CAMPBELL is a senior agent and partner with the Transatlantic Agency, based in Toronto, Canada. She joined Transatlantic in 2003 and represents writers of children’s fiction for ages 8+.... read more
1. The memoir is more than historical. Memory is a vehicle to explore a question you need to find and then to discover the answer to that question. The search... read more