How to Write Your Personal or Family History: (If You Don't Do It, Who Will?)

This is a practical—and encouraging—how-to book from a long-time teacher of personal and family history writing. Katie Funk Wiebe helps beginning memoir writers get started collecting the stories of their lives. She gives hints for recalling distant memories and tracking down family heirlooms. This is a serious but accessible resource for undertaking your personal or family history writing. In these pages, you'll find:

Tips on writing,
Exercises to prod the memory,
And advice on looking at the...