Sara Mansfield Taber

RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS, COUNSELORS & BOOK CLUBS: English Teachers, American History Teachers, School Counselors & Book Clubs

Teacher Resources: Podcast on Memoir Writing

November 9, 2011

Please find below an podcast of a lecture on memoir writing I delivered to the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program.

Sara

Selected Works

Memoir

BORN UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME: The Memoir of a Cold War Spy's Daughter

A story of growing up in the world of espionage

"A poignant chronicle of the diaspora of the heart--and the heart's quest and longing for that universal place called home."
Wall Street Journal

Opinion/Cultural Commentary

“Caring for Mom, Mum and Maman”

In Britain or France my aging mother would have gotten better health care.

Travel

“Throwing the Bums Out, Within and Without,”

An exploration of Argentina’s past tyrannies, and my own

Literary Journalism

BREAD OF THREE RIVERS: THE STORY OF A FRENCH LOAF

"...One of the most compelling, knowledgeable, and graceful books about the French soul that has ever been written by an American."
-Richard Goodman, author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France

DUSK ON THE CAMPO: A JOURNEY IN PATAGONIA

"The stories remain...etched in the reader's mind, etched as if by the harsh wind of Patagonia itself. Extraordinarily fine writing."
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Essay

"Longing for America: Notes from a Traveling Childhood"

"An eloquent essay."
-New York Times

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