Frances Altman's Blog – November 2015 Archive (1)

Memoirs have become very popular.  It used to be that a memoir was about a person's entire life. No so anymore. We have strayed from the dictionary definition.  Today it can be for a short period of time, a few months or a few years.  Joan Lundun has published a book covering the nine or so months that she was recovering from cancer,  A Baltimore writer Barbara Morrison has written about a period in her life when she was on welfare.  Sometimes the book is not really an autobiography but a…