From How To Become A Black Writer… The new teacher was a woman of late middle age whose dour visage looked out on the assembled students in her class like a vicar searching for signs of heresy. The unease and…
You can read an excerpt from my forthcoming book… For a limited time, you can get 25% off with code: Marita. Click here. Who made me a writer? That is the foundational inquiry that inspired my forthcoming book How to Become…
When I was a public-school student in Washington, D.C. the school library was a sacred space. Throughout my years in elementary, junior high, and high school, the school library was where I went to find myself in someone else’s story.…
Writing a memoir forces you to take ownership of the story of your life. Ownership means claiming your life and all its false starts and final reckonings. There are no half measures, no second-guessing in a memorable memoir. This is…
How to Write A Memoir Part One I launched my career with a memoir, Migrations of the Heart, published when I was 33 years old. Carol Mann a Manhattan literary agent had read a draft of my first attempt at…
