That must be like James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" or as some librarians are
also stating that any autobiography that makes an account of a person's life from
very early on when they can't possibly remember all information or conversations
(such as an adult writer who recalls a conversation made to him or her at the age
of 3 or so).
I work with librarians who are asking questions such as, if James Frey's work is an
autobiography but also not true but because of his addition of information that did
NOT happen, then other current titles such as Jeannette Walls "The Glass Castle"
must also be "autobiographical fiction" because she couldn't possibly remember all
those facts as a child.
Ideas, comments, suggestions....we are doing way too much of this "deep thinking"
and "genre re-classification"......
~Shonda
Shonda Brisco, MLIS
US / Technology Librarian
4200 Country Day Lane
Fort Worth Country Day School
Fort Worth, TX
817.732.7718 ext. 339
"Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible and suddenly you are doing
the impossible."
~St. Francis of Assisi
sbrisco@fwcds.org
http://www.fwcds.org/campus/libraries/default.asp
>>> Beth Dubbink <bdubbink@YAHOO.COM> 03/04/06 8:56 AM >>>
LM_Netters:
I have a teacher that is asking me if I ever heard of
the genre autobiographical fiction. A resource of
hers is referring to this as a writing strategy. I
must confess this term is unfamiliar to me. Can you
offer any information on this new (?) genre? TIA!!
Beth Dubbink, SLMS
Creekside/Cityside Middle Schools
Zeeland, MI
616-748-3312
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