Introduction / Patricia Hampl & Elaine Tyler May
The lion and the lamb, or the facts and the truth : memoir as bridge / Fenton Johnson
Whose war? / Annette Kobak
Coming to memoir as a journalist / Helen Epstein
All in the family / June Cross
It's all in the past / Michael Patrick MacDonald
Confessions of a memoir thief / Elaine Tyler May
Lady of the lake / Alice Kaplan
The we in the me : memoir as community / Matt Becker
You're history / Patricia Hampl
Memoir matters / Cheri Register
Where falsehoods dissolve : memory as history / Carlos Eire
Making memory / Samuel G. Freedman
Rue delta / Andre Aciman
Public policy/private lives / D. J. Waldie
Acknowledgments
Contributors.