Hello readers! We have decided to introduce authors via guest posts. Writers are good in expressing themselves and it’s worth reading their thoughts and views on issues related to the writing world. We are posting interviews from the Memoirs/Biography genre this month and we have Linda Gray Sexton, the daughter of Anne Sexton sharing her thoughts on “How Much of a Memoir Should Be True?”. We hope you enjoy reading her guest post and we welcome you to share your opinions below.
Linda Gray Sexton
Linda Gray Sexton, author of Bespotted: My Family’s Love Affair with Thirty-Eight Dalmatians
I have no doubt that every part of a memoir should be true. That is what differentiates it from fiction, a genre in which every word is drawn from the author’s imagination. And perhaps we also distinguish memoir from autobiography because, as we experience this form of literature today, it is not…
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