That’s fascinating. I love this quote from Lee Gutkind, “It’s your story, that’s what a memoir is. It’s your own personal truth, and it is not necessarily factually accurate, and it’s not necessarily the truth that other people have possessed.”
An interesting NPR piece on memoirs, looking at the genre through one family with three different memoirs: One Family, Three Memoirs, Many Competing Truths
That’s fascinating. I love this quote from Lee Gutkind, “It’s your story, that’s what a memoir is. It’s your own personal truth, and it is not necessarily factually accurate, and it’s not necessarily the truth that other people have possessed.”
