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Life Writing
Winifred Bryan Horner, Texas Christian University

ISBN-10: 0130792373
ISBN-13: 9780130792372

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1997
Format: Paper; 344 pp
Published: 12/10/1996

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Appropriate for undergraduate composition courses, from freshman courses concentrating on personal writing to advanced courses on life writing and/or the essay.

It offers selections that move from writing for oneself (journals and diaries) to writing for an audience (letters); from writing based on personal experience (autobiographies) to writing based on research (biographies). This development culminates in the essay, a form of writing in which personal experience and gained knowledge are shared with a public readership.

  • Selections demonstrate a wide range of writing voices and styles so that students recognize the possibilities of the forms. Pg.___
  • Selections include works by well-known masters of the forms: Anne Frank's diary, a letter from Lord Chesterfield, Malcolm X's autobiography, Truman Capote's biography of Richard Hickock, and a classic essay by E. B. White. Pg.___
  • Selections are by a diverse group of authors with different cultural backgrounds and perspectives. Pg.___
  • Selections represent a wide range of historical periods to aid in student understanding of the changes and/or development in the genres. Pg.___
  • Organization of selections allows students to move from subjective writing (diaries/letters/autobiography) to objective writing (biography, essays). Pg.___
  • Introductions to chapters and headnotes for selections provide students with the necessary context for reading and writing.
  • Musings ask students to analyze and adopt a variety of rhetorical strategies in response to the selections.



1. Journals and Diaries: Keeping a Daily Record.

On Keeping a Notebook, Joan Didion. A Voyage of Discovery, Christopher Columbus. My House in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau. Diary of a Civil War Soldier, W.P. Winans. The Mormon Migration, Priscilla Merriman Evans. Passing Thoughts,Sherwood Anderson. The Bombing of London, Virginia Woolf. A Visit with Jody, May Sarton. Down the River with Thoreau, Edward Abbey.The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank.



2. Letters: Communicating with Another.

On Inoculation with Smallpox, Voltaire. Letters to His Son, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield. The Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln. A Trip on Horseback, Elinore Rupert Stewart. Chhatarpur, Central India, E.M. Forster. Letter from Africa, Isak Dinesen. Walden, E.B. White. Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. Between Sisters: An E-Mail Exchange, Denise Stodola and Sandy Rubinstein.



3. Autobiography: Composing the Self.

Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas De Quincey. An Early Woman Doctor, Bethenia Owens-Adair. An Indian Woman Looks Back, Sarah Winnemucca. Looking Things Over, Zora Neale Hurston. Books Are My Alma Mater, Malcolm X. Where I Come From Is Like This, Paula Gunn Allen. Back, bell hooks. The Beat in the Jungle, Arthur Ashe.



4. Biography: Writing a Life.

The Butchering at Wounded Knee, John Neihardt. The Delany Sisters: Jim Crow Laws, Sarah and Elizabeth Delany (with Amy Hill Hearth). Richard Hickock: In Cold Blood, Truman Capote. Gloria Steinem: The Transforming Interlude, Carolyn G. Heilbrun. Leonard Bernstein: Beginnings for a Musical Genius, Joan Peyser. No Name Woman: My Aunt, Maxine Hong Kingston. Zora Neale Hurston: Before Her Time, Alice Walker. Daniel Boone: The Rescue, John Mack Faragher. Dian Fossey: Among the Great Apes, Sy Montgomery. Stevie Wonder: Music Is His Life, Giles Smith.



5. The Essay: Reflecting on the World.

Once More to the Lake, E. B. White. A Hanging, George Orwell. The Brown Wasps, Loren Eiseley. Lincoln Up Close, Gore Vidal. A Mask on the Face of Death, Richard Selzer. On Going Home, Joan Didion. The Fixed, Annie Dillard. Straightening Our Hair, bell hooks. Mother Tongue, Amy Tan.

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