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CHERI REGISTER’s Packinghouse Daughter (2000), a memoir about growing up working class in a Minnesota meatpacking town, won a Minnesota Book Award and an American Book Award (2001) and was a BookSense 76 selection; its opening chapter was listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays. Her books on international adoption, “Are Those Kids Yours?” (1991) and Beyond Good Intentions: A Mother Reflects on Raising Internationally Adopted Children (2005), provide perspective and challenge the conventional wisdom about international adoption. She has also written The Chronic Illness Experience: Days of Patience and Passion (1987, reissued 1999) and many essays, articles, and book reviews. She is a teaching fellow and a master track advisor at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Jerome Foundation, the Dayton-Hudson Foundation, the Minnesota Historical Society, the Loft Literary Center, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and the Swedish Council on Humanities and Literary Research.
D. J. WALDIE is the author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir (1996), Real City: Downtown Los Angeles Inside/Out (2001), Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles (2004), Close to Home: An American Album (2004), and California Romantica (2007). Holy Land received the California Book Award for nonfiction in 1996. Selections from Holy Land were included in the Library of America anthology Writing from Los Angeles in 2003. In 2004, Where We Are Now was named one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Waldie also is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award. D. J. Waldie has been the public information officer for the city of Lakewood since 1978. He received a master’s in comparative literature from the University of California–Irvine in 1974. He lives a not-quite-middle-class life in Lakewood, in the house his parents bought in 1946.
CONTINUATION OF COPYRIGHT STATEMENT
Introduction © 2008 by Patricia Hampl and Elaine Tyler May
“The Lion and the Lamb, or the Facts and the Truth: Memoir as Bridge” © 2008 by Fenton Johnson
“Whose War?” © 2008 by Annette Kobak
“Coming to Memoir as a Journalist” © 2008 by Helen Epstein
“All in the Family” © 2008 by June Cross
“It’s All in the Past” © 2008 by Michael MacDonald
“Confessions of a Memoir Thief” © 2008 by Elaine Tyler May
“Lady of the Lake” © 2008 by Alice Kaplan. A previous version was published in The American Scholar (September 2007).
“The We in the Me: Memoir as Community” © 2008 by Matt Becker
“You’re History” © 2008 by Patricia Hampl
“Memoir Matters” © 2008 by Cheri Register
“Where Falsehoods Dissolve: Memory as History” © 2008 by Carlos Eire
“Making Memory” © 2008 by Samuel G. Freedman
“Rue Delta” © 2008 by André Aciman
“Public Policy / Private Lives” © 2008 by D. J. Waldie, incorporating themes from “Ordinary Time: The Making of a Catholic Imagination,” in Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality (Spring 2007).
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint or print the following copyrighted works.
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Cross, June. 2006. Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away. New York: Viking, 52–53.
Eire, Carlos. 2003. Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy. New York: Free Press, 1–2.
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May, Elaine Tyler. 1999. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. Rev. ed. New York: Basic Books, 167–69.
Register, Cheri. 2001. Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir. New York: HarperCollins, 23–24. First published 2000 by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.
Waldie, D. J. 1996. Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir. New York: St. Martin’s Press.