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  The Aguero Sisters. New York: Knopf, 1997.

  Gibson, William Count Zero. Westminster: Arbor House, 1986.

  Mona Lisa Overdrive. New York: Bantam, 1988.

  Burning Chrome. New York: Eos Books, 2003.

  Godwin, Gail The Good Husband. New York: Ballantine Books, 1994.

  Goldberg, Myla Bee Season. New York: Doubleday, 2000.

  Goldman, William Marathon Man. New York: Delacorte Press, 1974.

  Gomez, Jewelle The Gilda Stores. Ann Arbor: Firebrand Books, 1991.

  Gordon, Mary The Shadow Man. New York: Random House, 1996. (Memoir.)

  Graham, Toni Waiting for Elvis. Wellfleet: Leapfrog Press, 2005.

  Hammett, Dashiell Maltese Falcon. New York: Knopf, 1930.

  Heller, Joseph Catch 22. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

  Hellman, Lillian An Unfinished Woman. New York: Little Brown,1969. (Memoir.)

  Pentimento. New York: Little Brown, 1973. (Memoir.)

  Maybe. New York: Little Brown, 1980. (Memoir.)

  Hemingway Ernest A Farewell to Arms. New York: Scribner, 1929.

  The Short Sweet Life of Francis McComber. In: The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. New York: Scribner, 1998.

  Herlihy, James Leo Midnight Cowboy. New York: Penguin, 1990.

  Hijuelos, Oscar The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1989.

  Hinsey, Ellen Cities of Memory. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

  Hoffman, Abbie Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture. New York: Perigee, 1980. (Memoir.)

  Hogan, Linda Mean Spirit. Atheneum, 1990.

  Homer The Odyssey. New York: Noonday Press, 1998.

  Iliad. New York: Penguin, 1998.

  Houston, Pam Cowboys Are My Weakness. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.

  Jackson, Shirley The Lottery. New York: Popular Library, 1949.

  Jaffee, Annette Williams Adult Education. Wellfleet: Leapfrog Press, 2000.

  James, Henry The Spoils of Poynton. New York: Dell, 1959.

  Joyce, James Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: Modern Library, 1916.

  Kafka, Franz The Trial. New York: Modern Library, 1956.

  Kadare, Ismail The Three Arched Bridge. New York: Vintage International, 1998.

  Karr, Mary The Liars Club. New York: Viking, 1995. (Memoir.)

  King, Laurie The Beekeeper’s Apprentice. New York: St. Martins, 1994.

  Kingsolver, Barbara The Bean Trees. New York: Harper, 1998.

  Kennedy, Pagan The Exes. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

  Kinkaid, Jamaica Annie John. New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1985.

  Kollontai, Alexandra The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman. New York: Schocken, 1975. (Memoir.)

  Le Carre, John Single & Single. New York: Scribner, 1999.

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  Lee, Tanith Lycanthia. New York: Daw Books, 1981.

  LeGuin, Ursula The Dispossessed. New York: Avon, 1974.

  Lem, Stanislau Solaris. New York: Walker & Co., 1970.

  Lessing, Doris The Golden Notebook. New York: Simon & Shuster, 1960.

  Martha Quest. New York: New American Library, 1964.

  A Proper Marriage. New York: Harper Collins, 1964.

  A Ripple from the Storm. New York: New American Library, 1966.

  Lethem, Jonathan As She Climbed Across the Table. New York: Doubleday, 1997.

  Amnesia Moon. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1996.

  Levi, Primo The Periodic Table. (Stories). New York: Schocken Books, 1984.

  If Not Now, When? New York: Penguin, 1985.

  The Reawakening. New York: Collier Books, 1986. (Memoir.)

  The Drowned and the Saved. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. (Memoir.)

  London, Jack To Build a Fire and Other Stories. New York: Bantam, 1990.

  Matousek, Mark Sex, Death, Enlightenment. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996.

  McCourt, Frank Angela’s Ashes. New York: Touchstone, 1999. (Memoir.)

  McCoy, Maureen Junebug. Wellfleet: Leapfrog Press, 2004.

  McInerney, Jay Story of My Life. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988.

  Melville, Herman Moby Dick. New York: Macmillan, 1962.

  Mailer, Norman Armies of the Night. New York: New American Library, 1968.

  Mitchell, Lauren Porosoff Look at Me. Wellfleet; Leapfrog Press, 2000.

  Morrison, Toni Sula. New York: Knopf, 1973.

  Song of Solomon. New York: Knopf, 1977.

  Beloved. New York: Knopf, 1987.

  Muhanji, Cherry Her: A Novel. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1991.

  Muller, Karin Hitchhiking Vietnam: A Woman’s Solo Journey in an Elusive Land. Guilford: Globe Pequot Press, 1998. (Memoir.)

  Murdoch, Iris A Word Child. New York: Viking Press, 1975.

  Nabokov, Vladimir Speak, Memory. New York: Putnam, 1966. (Memoir.)

  Lolita. New York: Putnam, 1980.

  Neruda, Pablo Memoirs. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1976.

  Oates, Joyce Carol Blonde. New York: Harper Ecco, 1999.

  O’Brien, Edna. Storm In: A Fanatic Heart. New York: New American Library, 1985.

  Paley, Grace Enormous Changes at the Last Minute. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1974.

  Later the Same Day. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1985.

  Piercy, Marge Small Changes. New York: Doubleday, 1973.

  Woman on the Edge of Time. New York: Knopf, 1976.

  Braided Lives. New York: Summit, 1981.

  Parti-Colored Blocks for a Quilt. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1983.

  Gone to Soldiers. New York: Summit, 1987.

  He, She & It. New York: Knopf, 1991.

  The Longings of Women. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1994.

  City of Darkness, City of Light. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1996.

  Three Women. New York: Morrow, 1999.

  Sleeping with Cats. New York: Morrow/Harper Collins, 2002. (Memoir.)

  Piercy, Marge and Ira Wood Storm Tide. New York: Ballantine, 1998.

  Power, Susan Grass Dancer. New York: Putnam, 1994.

  Price, Richard Clockers. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.

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  Vineland. New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1990.

  Quindlen, Anna One True Thing. New York: Random House, 1994.

  Raphael, Lev The German Money. Wellfleet: Leapfrog Press, 2003.

  Rosenthal Richard Rookie Cop. Wellfleet: Leapfrog Press, 2000. (Memoir.)

  Ross, Lillian Portrait of Hemingway. New York: Modern Library, 1999.

  Roszak, Theodore. The Devil and Daniel Silverman. Wellfleet: Leapfrog Press, 2002.

  Roth, Philip Portnoy’s Complaint. New York: Random House, 1969.

  Sabbath’s Theater. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

  Runyon, Damon Guys & Dolls: The Stories of Damon Runyon. New York: Penguin, 1992.

  Russ, Joanna The Female Man. New York: Bantam Book, 1975.

  Sarton, May Encore. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1993. (Any of Sarton’s many memoirs are recommended.) (Memoir.)

  Scott, Melissa Trouble and Her Friends. New York: TOR, 1994.

  Sedaris, David Naked. Boston: Back Bay Books, 1997.

  Shreve, Anita The Weight of Water. New York: Little, Brown, 1997.

  Slouka, Mark Lost Lake. New York: Knopf, 1998.

  Smith, Zadie White Teeth. New York: Random House, 2000.

  Sobell, Morton. On Doing Time. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974. (Memoir.)

  Sophocles Oedipus Rex. Mineola: Dover, 1993.

  Sprigg, June Simple Gifts: A Memoir of a Shaker Village. New York: Knopf, 1998 (Memoir.)

  Tangherlini, Arne [email protected]. Wellfleet: Leapfrog Press, 1999.

  Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall Reindeer Moon. New York: Pocket, 1991.

  Thomas, Piri Seven Long Times. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1994.

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nbsp; Thompson, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. New York: Vintage, 1998.

  Thoreau, Henry Walden. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. (Memoir.)

  Tolstoy, Leo War & Peace. New York: Viking, 1982.

  Traven, B. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. New York: Hill & Wang, 1996.

  Twain, Mark Huckleberry Finn. New York: Penguin, 1986.

  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. New York: Bantam, 1994.

  Vidal, Gore Palimpsest. New York: Random House, 1995. (Memoir.)

  Voltaire. Candide New York. Penguin, 1990.

  Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five. New York: Delta, 1999.

  Wallace, David Foster Infinite Jest. New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1996.

  Waugh, Evelyn Brideshead Revisited. New York: Knopf, 1993.

  Weldon, Fay Darcy’s Utopia. New York: Penguin Group, 1990.

  Willis, Connie To Say Nothing of the Dog. New York: Bantam, 1998.

  Winterson, Jeanette Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Boston: Atlantic Monthly, 1987.

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  Wood, Ann. Bolt Risk. Wellfleet: Leapfrog Press, 2005.

  Wood, Ira The Kitchen Man. Wellfleet: Leapfrog Press, 1998.

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  Woods, Teri True to the Game. New York: Teri Woods Publishing, 1999.

  X, Malcolm with Alex Haley The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Grove Press, 1964. (Memoir.)

  Yurick, Sol The Warriors. New York: Dell, 1979.

  Zenophon The Anabasis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

  Zinsser, William, editor Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

  Also of use:

  Deval, Jacqueline Publicize Your Book!. New York: Perigee, 2003.

  Jassin, Lloyd J. and Schecter, Steven C. The Copyright Permission and Libel Handbook:

  A Step by Step Guide for Writers, Editors and Publishers. New York: Wiley, 1998.

  Kirkpatrick, David D. Report to the Author Guild Midlist Books Study Committee. Available from:

  http: //www.authorsguild. org/miscfiles/ midlist.pdf

  Levine, Mark L. Negotiating a Book Contract: A Guide for Authors, Agents and Lawyers. Wakefield: Moyer Bell, 1994.

  Index

  A

  Acrocorinth

  Adams, John

  Address Unknown

  Adult Education

  Agents

  Albee, Edward

  Albom, Mitch

  Allen

  Allison, Dorothy

  All Said and Done

  Amadeus

  American Blood

  Amis, Kingsley

  Amnesia Moon

  Andrews, Donna

  Angela’s Ashes

  Anna Karenina

  Annie Hall

  Aphrodite

  Armies of the Night

  Asimov, Isaac

  Atwood, Margaret

  autobiographical fiction

  Available Light

  A Big Storm Knocked It Over

  A Christmas Carol

  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

  A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers

  A Farewell to Arms

  A Werewolf Problem In Central Russia

  B

  Baker, Russell

  Ballard, J.G.

  Barker, Nicola

  Barrett, Elizabeth

  barriers to creativity

  Barry, Dave

  Bastard Out of Carolina

  Batman

  Bean Trees

  Beatty, Ann

  Beet Queen

  Bee Season

  Beginnings

  Behindlings

  Bellow, Saul

  Berberova, Nina

  Betrayed By Rita Hayworth

  Betts, Doris

  Bluebeard

  Body of Glass

  Bogart, Humphrey

  Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The

  Book of Ruth, The

  Bradley, Marion Zimmer

  Brecht, Bertold

  Brideshead Revisited

  Bridget Jones

  Brontë, Charlotte

  Buffalo Gals And Other Animal Presences

  Buffy, The Vampire Slayer

  Bukowski, Charles

  Burke, James Lee

  Burning Angel

  Burning Marguerite

  Burns, Robert

  C

  “c.o.g.”

  Candide

  Canterbury Tales

  Carter, Angela

  Casella, Cesare

  Catcher in The Rye

  Catch

  Chabon, Michael

  character’s yearning

  Characterization

  characterization

  character dossier

  character driven fiction

  Chaucer

  Cheever, John

  Chekhov, Anton

  chemistry in characterization

  Cheong, Fiona

  Chopra, Deepak

  Christie, Agatha

  City of Darkness, City of Light

  Clockers

  Cold Mountain

  Columbo

  Colwyn, Laurie

  Comin’ Thro’ the Rye

  Conan Doyle

  Conan Doyle, Arthur. See also Doyle, Arthur Conan

  Conflicts

  conflicts

  Conrad, Joseph

  Corrections, The

  Count Zero

  Courage of Turtles, The

  Cowboys Are My Weakness

  Crane, Stephan

  Crazy Salad

  Cream Sauce

  Crocodile Soup

  Cross, Amanda

  Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Lion

  cummings, e.e.

  D

  Daddy and the Hammerhead Shark

  Darling, Julia

  Daspin, Eileen

  Dead, The

  Dead Man Walking

  Dead Souls

  Delaney, Samuel R.

  Description

  description

  Devil and Daniel Silverman, The

  De Beauvoir, Simone

  de Gramont, Nina

  dialog

  Diary of Anne Frank, The

  Diary of a Tuscan Chef

  Dick, Philip

  Dinesen, Isak

  Doctorow, E.L.

  Dogs of Babel

  Donne

  Dos Passos, John

  Doyle, Arther Conan. See also Conan Doyle, Arthur

  Dreaming In Cuban

  Dunmore, Helen

  Dyer, Wayne

  E

  Eco, Umberto

  Eggers, Dave

  Eisenberg, Nora

  Electronic publishing

  Eliot, T. S.

  Empire of the Sun

  ending

  Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

  epiphany

  Evans

  Evans, Richard Paul

  Eve

  Eve, Nomi

  Exercise

  F

  fairy tales

  fame

  Family Orchard, The

  Famished Road, The

  fantasy

  Far Euphrates

  Faust

  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

  Fear of Flying

  Fifth Book of Peace, The

  Fisher, M.F.K.

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott

  Flanagan, Mary

  Ford, John

  formality versus informality in speech

  For Whom The Bell Tolls

  Fowles, John

  Franzen, Jonathan

  French Lieutenant’s Woman, The

  Friedman, Bruce Jay

  From Time To Time

  G

  Garcia, Cristina

  German Money, The

  Gibson, William

  Going
Public

  Goldberg, Myla

  Goldman

  Gone To Soldiers

  Gone With The Wind

  Gordon, Mary

  Gould, Stephen Jay

  Great Gatsby, The

  Greeley, Andrew

  Grossman, David

  H

  Halloween

  Hamilton, Jane

  Hammett, Dashiell

  Handmaid’s Tale, The

  Hand In My Bra

  Hannah and Her Sisters

  Harder They Come, The

  Harrison Bergeron

  He, She & It

  Heartburn

  Heart of Darkness

  Heilbrun, Carolyn

  Hellman, Lillian

  Hemingway, Ernest

  Henry James

  Her: A Novel

  Herlihy, James Leo

  Hijuelos, Oscar

  Historical Fiction

  Historical fiction

  historical fiction

  Hitchcock, Alfred

  Hoagland, Edward

  Hoffman, Abbie

  Holman, Sheri

  Holmes, Sherlock

  Houston

  Hubbard, L. Ron

  Huckleberry Finn

  humor

  Hundred Per Cent Black Steinway Grand, The

  Hurston, Zora Neale

  Hynes, James

  I

  Ibsen

  idiomatic speech

  Iliad

  Infernal Desire Machine of Dr. Hoffman, The

  Infinite Jest

  inner censor

  Inness-Brown, Elizabeth

  International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses

  Interpreter Of Maladies

  Interviewing

  Irving, John

  Italics Are Mine, The

  I Love Myself When I Am Laughing ... And Then Again When I Am Looking

  J

  Jackson, Shirley

  Jaffee, Annette Williams

  James, Henry

  James, P. D.

  Jane Eyre

  jargon

  Jewish Defense League

  Jew in the Lotus, The

  JFK

  Jong, Erica

  journal

  journaling

  Joyce, James

  Junebug

  K

  Kabbalah

  Kafka, Franz

  Kamenetz, Roger

  Keneally, Thomas

  Kennedy, Jackie

  Kingsolver

  Kingsolver, Barbara

  Kingston, Maxine Hong

  Kipling, Rudyard

  Kirkpatrick, David D.

  Kitchen Man, The

  Kopit, Arthur

  Kumin, Maxine

  Kundera, Milan

 

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