ghost-writing | The Memoir Revolution

Linda Austin: I learned why my mother behaves the way she does, which is one reason why I strongly encourage telling life stories. What happens to us affects who we are and how we behave. Once I cried with my mother while parked in the lot of the Social Security building. She had told me…

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Jerry Waxler

December 13, 2011

Ghost Wrote Her Mother’s Memoir, Interview Part 2

Linda Austin

autobiography, Book Review, ghost written, ghost-writing, Japan, Linda Austin, memoir, personal history, World War II

My mother liked telling stories and talking about the festivals, but hated being interviewed, and she thought I was crazy for writing about her life. She thought her life was difficult and sad so who’d want to hear about that. She also thought since everyone in Japan had lived through those tough times that her…

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Jerry Waxler

December 7, 2011

Parent’s Memoir: Finding Roots Across Generations

Author Interview, Family

autobiography, Book Review, ghost-writing, Japan, Linda Austin, memoir, personal history, World War II

Is it co-authored or ghost written? Is it a memoir or a biography? These distinctions blur into artistic interpretations rather than hard definitions. When James McBride wrote about his own search for his mother’s past in “Color of Water,” he stayed inside his own point of view, with occasional well-marked shifts into his mother’s voice.…

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Jerry Waxler

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Ghost Wrote Her Mother’s Memoir, Part 3

Ghost Wrote Her Mother’s Memoir, Interview Part 2

Parent’s Memoir: Finding Roots Across Generations