Table of Contents
“‘The Naked Truth’: Pathography and the Case (No. 81128) of Marilyn Monroe” by Sarah Churchwell
“The Moral of My Story: Alice Kaplan’s French Lessons and the Moralization of Autobiography” by Kimberly Freeman
“The Shifting Self: Gender and Tradition in Edith Wharton’s A Backward Glance” by Windy Counsell Petrie
“Intimate Sympathy and Self-Effacement: Writing the Life of Sophia Jex-Blake” by Kristine Swenson
“‘This Is…Not My Autobiography’: The Paralyzed Body and Cultural Critique in Robert Murphy’s The Body Silent” by William Major
“Transforming the Tale: The Auto/Body/Ographies of Nancy Mairs” by Susannah B. Mintz
“Motherhood as Spiritual Crisis: Memoirs of Childbirth and Early Motherhood” by Trudelle Thomas
“Memories, Dreams, Reflections: The Automythography of Carl Gustav Jung” by Barry N. Olshen
“Defining a Field: The Encyclopedia of Life Writing” by Margaretta Jolly
“Prodding and Prompting: Writing and Editing a Collaborative Memoir of Modern War” An Interview with Alex Vernon Conducted by Farrell O’Gorman
Reviews
Getting a Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography. Ed. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson (U of Minnesota P, 1996). Reviewed by Roger J. Porter
Indigenous Australian Voices: A Reader. Ed. Jennifer Sabbioni, Kay Schaffer, and Sidonie Smith (Rutgers UP, 1998). Reviewed by Barbara H. Milech
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