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theodore zeldin

Here’s a list of 20 pieces of life writing (autobiography, biography, anything in between) I loved reading. In most cases that also means that, in reading them, I learned something new about writing lives.

Although delivering a narrative in the present tense is by no means a modern technique, its popularity seems to be growing among contemporary novelists.

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I would like to invite you – my friends, my readers, my favourite writers, and people I have never yet encountered – to tell me your autobiographical memories.

Conversation dinner

March 6, 2007

An account of my first conversation dinner, where complete strangers are paired off and given a “menu of conversation” with questions designed to make participants talk openly and intimately.