Annotated Biography
Anderson, Sarah. “The Power of Personal Narrative.” Teaching Tolerance. 19 July, 2012. Retrieved 20, June 2019. <https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/the-power-of-personal-narrative>. Anderson is a middle school interdisciplinary studies teacher in Oregon. She explains how she used personal narrative to empower her students and foster a stronger, closer and more compassionate community of learners.
Genzlinger, Neil, “The Problem with Memoirs,” New York Time, January 29, 2011. This article caution writers that not all memoirs need to be published. If a writer didn’t feel like they have discovered something new, there is no shame to hit the delete button.
Goldthwaite, Melissa A., et al. The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, 14thed., Edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2017. A collection of nonfiction essays from classic to contemporary – 155 essays in the full edition and 95 essays in the shorter edition. Essays are organized by themes and genres.
Langston, Hughes. “Will V-Day Be Me-Day?” Retrieved. 3 July, 2019. <https://langstonhughes277.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/will-v-day-be-me-day-too/>. The poem’s speaker points out that V-Day after WWI is not a Double V for black soldiers who fought for America but returned home continue to face racism.
McFee, John. Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2017 Kindle Edition. McFee, a New Yorker writer and Princeton’s writing professor, shares his insights about the writing process with multiple diagrams and personal anecdotes.
Sharp, Coley. The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection. New York: Little, Brown and Company. 2018. A collection of writing prompts, art, poetry and stories by 40 diverse and award-winning authors and illustrators in a creative challenge.
Shukla, Nikesh, et al. The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America. Little, Brown and Company, 2019. A follow-up to the bestselling UK edition. A collection of personal narratives by American writers on living between cultures and languages as immigrants.
Zinsser, William. On Writing Well: A Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. 30th Anniversary Edition. Harper Perennial, 2016. A writing guide with fundamental principles and insights for writers.
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