Victoria Phillips Edit/Rewrite: Wiki October, 2022 Biography and Memoir, CUNY Graduate Center Harriet Winslow (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Winslow) For the fictional character, see List of Family Matters characters § Harriette Winslow. Harriet Winslow Born 1796 Died 1833 (aged 36–37) Harriet Wadsworth Winslow (née Lathrop; 1796–1833),…
Response to The Situation and the Story
The advice “Get the narrator, and you’ve got the piece” (123) struck me. I’ve read this book for two other courses, and it was interesting to re-read with a bit more experience. Last year, I resented Gornick’s tone when she…
Victoria Phillips BAM 70100 Professor Jason Tougaw 10 September 2022 Footnote Assignment I am working on two projects: a memoir (my thesis, I think) and a “traditional” diplomatic biography of Eleanor Lansing Dulles. Memoir The memoir uses disease as…
Eve’s Hollywood/Hollywood’s Eve: The Beauties of Johnson/The Life of Johnson?
Despite the pretence of being a chatty, non-academic biography, Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. demonstrates the best of historical analysis. Hat’s off to the author for great research and insightful writing combined with a…
Amazing Storyteller – Ukraine / Current Events
Dear All, Because I am in Europe, I have met a lot of Ukrainian soldiers and survivors over the last six months. I found this piece to be really spot-on in describing what I have heard from others over coffee…
Of Interest
Dear All, I thought this BIO International book might be of interest. Also, check out the website for conference applications and information in NYC this May. August 2022 | Volume 17 | Number 6 FROM THE EDITOR I couldn’t be…
