1st Edition
The Routledge Introduction to American Life Writing
Introduction
Chapter 1: Personal Essay
Chapter 2: Memoir and Autobiography
Chapter 3: Literary Journalism
Chapter 4: Lyric Essays
Chapter 5: Diaries, Epistles, and Speeches
Chapter 6: Aural Narratives: Podcasts and Story Slams
Chapter 7: Life Writing Online
Biography
Amy Monticello is an associate professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston, MA. She is the author of the nonfiction chapbooks Close Quarters and How to Euthanize a Horse. Her essays and craft articles have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Brevity, Hotel Amerika, Creative Nonfiction, CALYX, under the gum tree, The Rumpus, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and elsewhere.
Jason Tucker is an instructor of English at Suffolk University in Boston, MA. His essays have appeared in The Southeast Review, River Teeth, Cream City Review, Sweet, Waccamaw, Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere.
