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Memoir Movie Review: “The Help” Reviewed by Diana Paul

by Matilda Butler on November 9, 2011

Post #92 – Women’s Memoirs, Book & Video Raves – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler

What if “The Help” Were a Memoir?

The Help has been a popular book, especially among women, and is now showing in movie theaters. It’s fiction but has many elements of non-fiction. I started wondering how we would approach this movie, if it were a memoir.

Let me back up. The Help, a 2009 best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett, is a fictionalized account of [click to continue…]

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Memoir Book Review: Boyd Lemon’s Digging Deep, Reviewed by Sharon Lippincott

by Matilda ButlerOctober 26, 2011

Memoir Book Review: Sharon Lippincott reviews Digging Deep and helps us see the importance of memoir writing for personal and public healing.

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Memoir Author Interview: Women’s Memoirs Talks with Katherine Mayfield

by Matilda ButlerOctober 19, 2011

Memoir Author Speaks: Katherine Mayfield shares her thoughts on the process of memoir writing.

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Memoir Book Review: Laura Furman’s The Mother Who Stayed: Stories, Reviewed by Lanie Tankard

by Matilda ButlerOctober 5, 2011

Post #62 – Women’s Memoirs, Author Conversations – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
strong>The Mother Who Stayed: Stories
by Laura Furman
Reviewed by Lanie Tankard
“History is the history of human behavior,
and human behavior is the raw material of fiction.”
—Amy Waldman
“Truth in Imagined Things”
Wall Street Journal
Memoir Writing as Meditation: The Art of Leaving Unsaid
How do we define [...]

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Memoir Author Interview: Shani Raviv talks about writing her new memoir

by Matilda ButlerSeptember 14, 2011

Writing your memoir? Here’s thoughts from a memoir author about memoir writing, including use of her journal.

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Memoir Book: Writing a Memoir is Healing, Thoughts from Maureen Wlodarczyk

by Matilda ButlerSeptember 7, 2011

Memoir author Maureen Wlodarczyk shares the interests, process, and desire that moved her from researching her grandmother’s family history to a published memoir.

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Memoir Review: Take Me Home from the Oscars: Arthritis, Television, Fashion and Me by Christine Schwab

by Matilda ButlerAugust 31, 2011

Lanie Tankard reviews the memoir Take Me Home from the Oscars by Christine Schwab and shares insights for the memoir writer.

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