Truth or Lie: Fiction vs. Memoir—How Memoir Writers Can Approach Truth and Healing

As a memoir teacher, I find that people are very worried about the ethical issues involved in memoir writing. For example, the writers ask such questions as, “what if I don’t remember the exact conversation when my mother died,” or “I don’t know what clothes I was wearing the day my father went away forever.”

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