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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Coming of Age memoirs

The following list of coming of age memoirs supplements the titles you can find on http://www.memoirreviews.com

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Alter, Stephen. All the Way to Heaven: An American Boyhood in the Himalayas. South Asia Books, 1997.

Conroy, Frank. Stop-Time: A Memoir  . Penguin, 1977.

DeSalvo, Louise and Giunta, Edvige. Vertigo: A Memoir  . The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2002. Account of author’s harsh upbringing and her study of Virginia Woolf.

Friedman, Hannah. Everything Sucks: Losing My Mind and Finding Myself in a High School Quest for Cool  . HCI Teens, 2009.

Froncek, Thomas. Home Again, Home Again: A Son's Memoir . Arcade Publishing, 1996. A son recounts his 1950’s childhood and relationship with his father.

McCarthy, Mary. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood  . Harvest Books, 1972.

McCarthy, Mary. How I Grew  . Harvest Books, 2004.

Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi  . New York: Dial, 1968.

O'Connor, Sandra Day. Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest  . Random House, 2003.

Rothschild, Matt. Dumbfounded: Big Hair. Big Problems. Or Why Having It All Isn't for Sissies  . Three Rivers Press, 2008.

Rushfield, Richard. Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost: A Memoir of Hampshire College in the Twilight of the 80s  . Gotham, 2009.

Sedaris, David. When You Are Engulfed in Flames  . Little, Brown and Co., 2008. By the humorist.

Wilson, John V. Jr. Meridian Street: An Illustrated Memoir  . Outskirts Press, 2006. On growing up during the Great Depression and going on to a career in Washington.

Wolff, Geoffrey. The Edge of Maine  . National Geographic, 2005. Novelist/biographer spends many summers in Maine.

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