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What Is Memoir?

Clip: Season 2 Episode 2 | 6m 11sVideo has Closed Captions

Cheri Register and Diane Wilson have both won Minnesota Book Awards for Memoir. They...

Cheri Register and Diane Wilson have both won Minnesota Book Awards for Memoir. They discuss the difference between memoir and autobiography. A memoir requires a guide who leads the reader on a search.

04/24/2011

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The Advantages Of Memoir

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Clip: S2 Ep2 | 4m 44s | Memoir offers flexibility to the writer. Emotional 'truth' is not the same as... (4m 44s)

Involving Family

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Clip: S2 Ep2 | 6m 30s | Memoirists invariably deal with sensitive family issues; the authors discuss... (6m 30s)

Memoir's Writing Process

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Clip: S2 Ep2 | 4m 23s | Writing a memoir requires the writer to process many elements, some of which are... (4m 23s)

Story And History

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Clip: S2 Ep2 | 5m 31s | Personalizing the story can help the reader through difficult terrain. It also can... (5m 31s)

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