Personal Narrative


Owl Moon
Fireflies
Night
War's Unwomanly Face
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Diary of a Young Girl
Shortcut: An Award-Winning Suspenseful Picture Book About Trains and Family for Children (Ages 4-8)
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother
The Glass Castle
Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Man's Search for Meaning
When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books)
The Night Walk
The Search for Mother Missing by Janine VanceTwins Found in a Box by Janine VanceGoing Back to Zen by Janine VanceYou Don't Look Adopted by Anne HeffronAdoption History 101 by Janine Myung Ja
Adult Adoptee Memoirs
23 books — 14 voters

Vivian Gornick
The unsurrogated narrator has the monumental task of transforming low-level self-interest into the kind of detached empathy required of a piece of writing that is to be of value to the disinterested reader.
Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative

Vivian Gornick
The essay becomes an exercise in the meaning and value of watching a writer conquer their own sense of threat to deliver themself of their wisdom.
Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative

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