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The call to write your life story is a jar of honey, sweet and alluring, sticky and messy. To write about our lives is joy-filled and terrifying. As someone who’s been teaching and coaching memoirists ...

Ahh. All those dots. The ones that connect the people, events, smiles, tears, and the joys of life—your life. But who would be privy to them unless you sat them down and told them about the highlights ...

Alicia Rowe’s family knows its history back four generations, thanks to a bevy of memoirs she has written as their Christmas gifts and for posterity. Her children and grandchildren will never have to ...

Mr. McAllister is a novelist and the author of the memoir “Bury Me in My Jersey.” I was grading assignments for an undergraduate course in memoir writing when I experienced a severe crisis of faith ...