Judith Barrington was, for several years, on the faculty of the low residency MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Much sought after as a writing teacher, over the past thirty years she has taught creative writing at various universities and at many summer writing workshops. http://www.judithbarrington.com/bio/index.htmlHere are two of her quotes I especially like:
“A word of warning here. The events as you remember them will never be the same in your memory once you have turned them into a memoir. For years I have worried that if I turn all of my life into literature, I won’t have any real life left – just stories about it. And it is a realistic concern: it does happen like that. I am no longer sure I remember how it felt to be twenty and living in Spain after my parents died; my book about it stands now between me and my memories. When I try to think about that time, what comes to mind most readily is what I wrote.”
Judith Barrington from Writing the Memoir, From Truth to Art, second edit
Available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Memoir-Truth-Second-Edit/dp/0933377509/