GSTR109C and H
I To I: Life Writing
Libby Jones/Susan Henthorn
Fall 2005
Authors and Titles of Memoirs and How to Locate Them
Titles available in Hutchins Library have Call Numbers provided. Titles not held by Hutchins are available from
other libraries through InterLibrary Loan. Forms are available at the Reference Desk or online from the
Hutchins Library Webpage (http://www.berea.edu/hutchinslibrary/). (Please allow 7-10 days.)
Ackerley, J.R. – My Dog Tulip – 828.912 A182m
Alhadeff, Gini – The Sun at Midday
Allison, Dorothy – Two or Three Things I Know for Sure –
A4388t
Angelou, Maya – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – 828
A584i 2002
Baker, Russell – Good Times – 070.924 B1684g
– Growing Up – 070.924 B1684
Balakian, Peter – Black Dog of Fate – 821.914 B171b
Barrington, Judith – History and Geography
– Lifesaving
Bedford, Sybille – A Visit to Don Otavio
Beren, Peter – The Writer’s Legal Companion
Bingham, Sallie – Passion and Prejudice – 929.2 B613bi
Bordewich, Fergus – My Mother’s Ghost
Bunin, Brad – The Writer’s Legal Companion
Conley, Dalton – Honky – E–Book – available online only
Conroy, Frank – Stop-Time
Conway, Jill Ker – The Road from Coorain – 305.4099 C767r
-- True North -- 305.409 C767t
Cunningham, Laura Shaine – Sleeping Arrangements
Daniel, John – Looking After
Dillard, Annie – An American Childhood – 828 D578a
Diski, Jenny – Skating to Antarctica
Ditlevsen, Tove – Early Spring
Drake, Barbara – Peace at Heart
– Dreaming
Durrell, Gerald – My Family and Other Animals – 574.9495
D965m
Ehrlich, Gretel – A Match to the Heart
Frazier, Ian – Family – 977.125 F848f
Friedman, Bonnie – Writing Past Dark – 808.02 F911w 1993
Gates, Jr., Henry Louis – Colored People – 975.4 G259c
– The Future of the Race – 305.896 G259f
– Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man – 305.896
G259t
Gordon, Mary – The Shadow Man – 828.914 G664s
– Seeing Through Places – 828.914 G664se
Graves, Lucia – A Woman Unknown
Grealy, Lucy – Autobiography of a Face – 362.196 G786a
Griffin, Susan – Growing Up
Hamilton–Paterson, James – The Great Deep
Hampl, Patricia – Virgin Time – 230 H229v
– I Could Tell You Stories – 828.914 H229i 1999
Hellman, Lillian – Pentimento – 822 H477zhp
Hoffman, Richard – Half the House
Hogan, Linda – Dwellings
Jordan, Teresa – Riding the White Horse Home
Kazin, Alfred – Starting Out in the Thirties – 828.914 K23
– A New York Jew – 820.9 K23n
Kincaid, Jamaica – “On Seeing England for the First Time”
Kupfer, Fern – Before and After Zachariah – K958b
Kusz, Natalie – Road Song – 979.805 K97r
Kuusisto, Stephen – Planet of the Blind
Lamott, Anne – Bird by Bird – 808.02 L235b
Le Guin, Ursula K. – “Places Names”
Lessing, Doris – Under My Skin – 828.914 L639u
Levertov, Denise – Tesserae
Levi, Primo – Survival in Auschwitz – 940.547 L664s 1996
Mairs, Nancy – Remembering the Bone House – 828.914
M229r
McCourt, Frank – Angela’s Ashes -- 929.208 M131a
Merrill, James – A Different Person
Monette, Paul – Last Watch of the Night
– Becoming a Man
Morrison, Toni – Beloved – M8822be
Norris, Kathleen – Dakota – 978.303 N856d
Nye, Naomi Shihab – Never in a Hurry
Ortiz, Roxanne Dunbar – Red Dirt
Rorem, Ned – Knowing When to Stop
Ruiz, Judy – “Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy”
Sage, Lorna – Bad Blood
Sandor, Marjorie – The Night Gardener
Santiago, Esmerelda – When I Was Puerto Rican
See, Carolyn – Dreaming
Shackleton, Ernest – South – 919.9 S523s
Simpson, Eileen – Poets in Their Youth – 821 S6124
Reversals – 362.196 S613r
Spender, Stephen – World Within World
Tall, Deborah – The Island of the White Cow
Vidal, Gore – Palimpsest – 828.914 V648p
Walker, Alice – The Color Purple – W177c 1992
– The Same River Twice – 828 W177sa
Weigl, Bruce – The Circle of Hanh
White, Evelyn C. – Ode to Aretha
Williams, C.K. – Misgivings
Wilson, Barbara – Blue Windows
Woolf, Virginia – “22 Hyde Park Gate”
–
“Professions for Women”
Authors and Titles of Memoirs and How to Locate Others
Literature Resource Center
Use the following steps to
locate an author who has
written memoirs:
1. From the Electronic
Resources page
(http://www.berea.edu/hutchinsli
brary/electronicresources.asp),
select Literature Resource
Center:
2. At the Literature Resource
Center home page, select
“Authors by Type.”
3. On the Authors by Type
page, select the following, as
desired:
a) Author Ethnicity – choose
from six American
ethnicities (optional)
b) Author Nationality –
choose from 120+
nationalities (optional)
c) Genre – select
‘Memoirs’
d) Theme – select from
nearly 1,000 themes
(optional)
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2
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3a
3d
3c
BANC
Use the following steps to
locate an author who has
written memoirs:
1. Choose ‘Advanced Search’
2. a. In the first ‘Search for’
box, type ‘biography’
b. In the first ‘Search in’
box, select ‘Subject’
3. Select ‘AND’
4. a. In the second ‘Search
for’ box, type words or
phrases
b. In the second ‘Search in’
box, select ‘Keyword
Anywhere’