# Why We Write About Ourselves

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- Book: [Why We Write About Ourselves](https://www.bookquiver.com/meredith-maran/why-we-write-about-ourselves) ([Why We Write About Ourselves.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/meredith-maran/why-we-write-about-ourselves.md))
- Authors: [Meredith Maran](https://www.bookquiver.com/meredith-maran)
- Publisher: Plume
- ISBN: 978-01-4218-197-3
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2016-01-26
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the voices of twenty landmark memoirists—including New York Times bestselling authors Cheryl Strayed, Sue Monk Kidd, and Pat Conroy—a definitive text on the craft of autobiographical writing,...