Recommended Reading
Books On The Craft of Writing
- The Artist’s Way-A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity - Julia Cameron & Mark Bryan
- Writing Without Teachers - Peter Elbow (classic)
- Writing Down The Bones - Natalie Goldberg (classic)
- Bird By Bird: Some Instructions - Anne Lamott (classic)
- Here and Now: An Approach to Writing - Fred Morgan
- Writing From The Heart - Leslea Newman
- Your Life As A Story - Tristine Rainer
- Writing The Natural Way - Gabriele Lusser Rico
- Writing Your Life - Lois Willet Stanek
- Zen - In The Art of Writing - Ray Bradbury
- How To Write Your Own Life Story: The Classic Guide For The Nonprofessional Writer - Lois Daniel
- On Writing - Stephen King *****(excellent)
- From Memories to Manuscript The 5 Step Method of Writing - Joan Neubauer
- Writing In Flow - Susan Perry
- Writing Family Histories and Memoirs - Kirk Polking
- Writing Life Stories - Bill Roorbach
- Writing From Within: A Unique Guide To Writing Your Life's Story - Bernard Selling
- Inventing The Truth – The Art and Craft of Memoir - William Zinsser
Recommended Reading
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
- Growing Up - Russell Baker
- Slaves in the Family - Edward Ball
- A Year In the Life - Sheila Bender
- Ava's Man - Rick Bragg
- Dry (Running With Scissors) - Augustin Burroughs
- Papa My Father: A celebration of Dads - Leo Buscaglia
- My Life as a Drinker - Susan Cheever
- The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
- An American Childhood - Annie Dillard
- The Tender Land: A Family Love Story - Kathleen Finneran
- Family - Ian Frazier
- Pearl - Mary Gordon
- Washington – A Journalist’s Memoir – Meg Greenfield
- Granny D: Walking Across America in my 90th Year - Doris Haddock
- I Could Tell You Stories – Patricia Hampl
- How To Write Funny - John Kachuba
- The Liar's Club - Mary Karr
- The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
- Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life - C.S. Lewis
- The Color of Water - James McBride
- Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
- Teacher Man – Frank McCourt
- The Tender Bar – J.R. Moehringer
- Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone - Mary Morris
- My Dog Skip - Willy Morris
- Tales From The Couch: Writers On Therapy - Jason Shinder
- Truth Comes in Blows: A Memoir - Ted Solotaroff
- All The Finest Girls - Alexandra Styron
- The Glass Wall - Jeanette Walls
- One Writer’s Beginnings - Eudora Welty
- This Boy’s Life: A Memoir - Tobias Wolff
Magazines
The Writer, Writer’s Digest, Bookmark, Writers’ Journal, Poets and Writers, Bloomsbury Review (www.google.com for more info).
Dealing With & Writing About Trauma, Loss & Grief
- Writing Out The Storm - writing your way through illness - Barbara Abercrombie
- The Situation and The Story - a writer and a teacher tells all - Vivian Gornick
- Living With Grief: Loss in Later Life - Hospice Foundation of America - Ken Doka, Editor
- Writing to Heal the Soul - Transforming grief through writing - Susan Zimmerman