How to Undermine Your Memoir

The following is based largely on a response I wrote in March 2013 to a comment on a post called But is it a Memoir? Rereading my comment, I realized it is of value to all the new readers to this blog since then—and to longer readers who may have forgotten or never read it. You would do well to read the original blog post.

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A Memoir Serves as a Guide to the Reader

Liberties with facts ultimately, I believe, undermine the authority of a memoirist to present his/her life experience as a live...