Amazon.com description: Product Description: New edition of the successful Writing the Memoir by Judith Barrington, published originally in 1997, now in its 3rd printing with 18,000 copies in print. Acclaimed writing teacher Judith Barrington has updated her lively and encouraging book aimed at those aspiring to the highest literary standards, but useful, also, to those who want to record stories for family and friends. Topics include: finding form, telling the truth, using fictional techniques, developing sensory detail, writing about living people, placing a personal story in a larger context. Detailed writing exercises in each chapter; legal issues pertaining to memoir are explained in appendix.