Personal Narrative


Owl Moon
Fireflies
Night
The Diary of a Young Girl
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
The Year of Magical Thinking
War's Unwomanly Face
Shortcut: An Award-Winning Suspenseful Picture Book About Trains and Family for Kids (Ages 4-8)
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother
Man's Search for Meaning
Educated
Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid
Walden or, Life in the Woods
When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books)
The Glass Castle
East Within West by Kimberley JonesThe 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 Heffron
Adult Adoptee Memoirs
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Vivian Gornick
The presence in a memoir or an essay of the truth speaker - the narrator that a writer pulls out of his or her own agitated and boring self to organize a piece of experience - it was about this alone that I felt I had something to say; and it was to those works in which such a narrator comes through strong and clear that I was invariably drawn.
Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative

Adewale Joel
The story of the self is simply the insight into the emotions of the protagonist and how he interacts with the outside world.
Adewale Joel, Learn Creative Writing: A guide to writing perfect drafts

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