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Amy Friedman

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My most recent books are Desperado's Wife: A Memoir (as soon on Katie Couric on July 9, 2013) and the soon-to-be-released story of Anne Willan's life, the memoir One Souffle at a Time, with Anne Willan (St. Martin's Press, September 2013).

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, inspired first by trying to give voice to those who are voiceless. This has been the unconscious impetus behind all three of my memoirs and much of the fiction and short stories and thousands of essays I've written.

I worked for years as a newspaper columnist in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and I still write (since 1992) the internationally syndicated newspaper feature Tell Me A Story that has spawned two books and three audiobooks.

I now live in Los Angeles an ...more

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The woes and worries and wows of self-publishing

I worked for ten years on my memoir, Desperado's Wife (having lived the life for ten years first), and every time I had some kind of breakthrough--either in the writing itself or in publishing--I celebrated. Good thing I did because a writer's life has long, long periods of utter loneliness and disappointment. We all know that. I know it from personal experience in my writing life and as a teacher Read more of this blog post »

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Published on January 07, 2013 08:50 • Tags: katie-couric, marriage, media-appearance, memoir, prison, self-publishing

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	Desperado's Wife 4.06 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tell Me a Story: Timless Folktales from Around the World 3.76 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tell Me A Story 3: Women of Wonder by Amy Friedman (Goodreads Author), Laura Hall (Compiler), Jillian Hulme Gilliland (Illustrator) 4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tell Me A Story 2: Animal Magic by Amy Friedman (Goodreads Author), Laura Hall (Collaborator), Jillian Gilliland (Illustrator) 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kick the Dog and Shoot the Cat 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dream Catchers: POPS the Club Anthology by Amy Friedman (Goodreads Author), Dennis Danziger (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spectacular Gift by Amy Friedman (Goodreads Author), Jillian Hulme Gilliland (Illustrator) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing Sacred: A Conversation With Feminism it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Mother Knows Best by Amy Friedman (Goodreads Author), Amy Friedman (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1982 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We are saved not by what we can do or accomplish but by our fealty to revolt, our steadfastness to the weak, the poor, the marginalized, and those who endure oppression. We must stand with them against the powerful. If we remain true to these moral imperatives, we win. And I am enough of an idealist to believe that the struggle to live the moral life is worth it. Chris Hedges, The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”
― Amy Friedman, Desperado's Wife A Memoir

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“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

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“You might think that nobody’s insides are as messy as your insides. That’s an optical delusion. You only see other people’s outsides – never their insides. So you can’t possibly know.”
― Deborah Pardes, Climbing Out from Under: A Handbook for Heartbreak

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