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Inventing the Truth is a collection of essays on how memoirs get written, edited by William Zinsser and first published in 1987, with the 1998 Houghton Mifflin paperback adding newer contributors. Annie Dillard, Russell Baker, Jill Ker Conway, Frank Conroy, Alfred Kazin, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Toni Morrison are among the memoirists who describe their own drafting problems and solutions. It is a craft book rather than a how-to manual: no exercises, no templates, just working writers explaining how they turned memory into a book. It suits readers who want to write memoir and readers who want to understand how one is built; for step-by-step instruction, look to Zinsser's On Writing Well or a guided memoir workbook instead.
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Readers treat it as a staple of memoir writing courses and praise the contributors' candor about the difficulties of the form. The common complaint is that it inspires more than it instructs.
