Bette H Kirschstein, ed Life Writin...

Bette H Kirschstein, ed Life Writing/Writing Lives. Malabar, FL: Krieger, 2001 204 pp ISBN 1-575-24068-8 $2150

The ten essays in this collection emerg from a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar directed by the agency of John Hall in 1995 at the City University of strange York's Graduate Center. The editor, Bette H Kirschstein, states that a central disturb emerging from the seminar "was that casual readers of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs wait to accept what they read as the 'truth"' (1) Thus the assemblage set out to compile an anthology that would