What, Why, How: Yancy Caruthers

WHAT?

Military narrative non-fiction, stories that could be fiction, but they aren’t. I began with Northwest of Eden, my own memoir of my experience as the second-in-command of an Army Emergency Room during my year-long deployment to Iraq. I had dabbled with writing short stories and op/ed before, but this was deeper, because it was true. One of my author friends asked me (in a nice way) “Why did you write a memoir? You’re nobody.” That is exactly the point. I am one of millions of people wh...