|  |  | Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life
Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life
Edited by Patricia Hampl (B.A. ’68) and Elaine Tyler May
Minnesota Historical Society Press/Borealis Books, 2008
A
popular genre for readers and writers, memoirs have fallen under great
scrutiny with questions of their accuracy. Memoirists must draw on
their memories and imaginations, yet audiences demand narratives that,
while worthy of fiction, are
completely factual. Hampl, an essayist and memoirist, and May, the
author of several books on 20th century America, have navigated the
gray areas between fact and memory, history and imagination, in their
writings. Both Regents Professors at the University, they have
collected 14 original essays from award-winning memoirists and
historians who show how to tell compelling, and true, stories. Included
are essays by André Aciman, Alice Kaplan, and Cheri Register.
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