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Reading other people’s memoirs can trigger your own flood of memories, even if the author didn’t live in the same time or place as you. Try these tomes:
- An American Childhood by Annie Dillard (HarperPerennial)
- A Diary of the Century by Edward Robb Ellis (Kodansha America)
- Growing Up by Russell Baker (Signet)
- The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr (Penguin)
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (Broadway Books)
- Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties by Joyce Maynard (iUniverse)
- Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (St. Martin’s Press)
- This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolfe (Grove Press)
- Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner (Penguin)
- Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)
From the August 2010 Family Tree Magazine
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