Memoir
Writing Resources from the Toronto Public Library Website 
Specific Websites for
Memoirs
http://www.extraordinarylives.com
: Memoir Writing guides, Resource List
http://writingmemoirs.suite101.com
: A guide to writing & researching memoirs, autobiographies & biographies
http://www.turningmemories.com
: Turning Memories into Memoirs; a memoir writing how-to info site
Specific Blog Articles
for Memoir Writing
1. http://minnieapolis.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/06/1960751-writing-your-memoirs-a-page-or-two-at-a-time
2. http://www.thetrendsetter.org/2007/09/24/creative-nonfiction-memoir-how-to-write-a-memoir
3. http://the-writing-bug.blogspot.com/2008/06/memoir-writing-scoop.html
Want to read a book?
Some suggested titles that
can be borrowed from Toronto Public Library:
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Dzis, Gayle. Write your memoirs
– everybody can! Book 1: Before you Begin. Mississauga, Ont.: Historical
Enterprises, 2009.
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Gawthorpe, Ann. How to write
your life story. Blacklick, Ohio: McGraw Hill, c2009.
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McKeithan, Elsa. Writing
the stories of your life: how to turn memories into memoir. Victoria,
B.C: Trafford, 2004.
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Ulrich, Karen. How to write
your life story: the complete guide to creating a personal memoir.
New York: Reader’s Digest Association, 2006.
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Abercrombie, Barbara. Courage
and craft: writing your life into story. Novato, California: New World
Library, 2007.
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Zousmer, Steve. You don’t
have to be famous: how to write your life story. Cincinnati: Writer’s
Digest Books, 2007.
Additional Reading Suggestions
from Toronto memoir writers 
Goldberg, Natalie: Wild
Mind. Old Friend From Far Away. Writing Down the Bones
Rainer, Tristan - Your
Life As Story
Adaurm Kara - Naked Drunken
Writings
Goldberg, Bonni - Room
to Write
Winokur, Jon - Advice
to Writers
Zinsser, William - Writing
About Your Life: A Journey into the Past
Pannabaker, Dr. James -
Writing
to Heal
DeSalvo, Louise - Writing
as a Way of Healing
Carr, Mary - Liar's Club
Didion, Joan - A Year
of Magical Thinking, The White Album
Roerbach, Bill - Writing
Life Stories
King, Stephen - On Writing
Slater, Nigel - Toast
Thomas, Abigail - Three
Dog LIfe, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Choy, Wayson - Paper
Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood, Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost
Dying
Latta, Ruth - Life Writing
Fong-Bates, Judy - Year
of Finding Memory
Child, Julia - My Life
in France
Claxton, Eve - World's
Best Memoir Writing
Simonds, Merilyn - A
New Leaf
King, James - Etienne's
Alphabet
Websites and Blogs
50 Top Blogs re: Memoirs
- http://www.networkedblogs.com/topic/memoir/
Allyson Latta: Memoir Writing
and More - http://www.allysonlatta.ca/
Go to http://technorati.com
and search for "Memoir Writing" - 90 blogs on the subject were listed when
I looked
Tips on Writing Memoirs:
http://www.squidoo.com/writingmemoir
http://www.ghostwriter-needed.com/tips-on-writing-memoirs.html
http://www.capturingmemories.com/tips.html
http://www.rd.com/money/great-tips-on-how-to-write-your-memoir/
Self-Publishing - http://lulu.com
drkarsten@astralsite.com
October 2011