Craft Talk with Judy Goldman: Writing Memoir
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In this episode 265, host Landis Wade has a craft talk with Judy Goldman, an award-winning author about writing memoir. Judy talks at length about memoir writing, including the differences between autobiography and memoir, the narrative and the reflection, the importance of reflection in memoir writing, the balance between narrative and analysis and memoir structure. To illustrate some of her advice, Judy also reads several passages from her recent book: “Together, A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap.”
About the Author:
Judy Goldman is the author of seven books – three memoirs, two novels, and two collections of poetry. Her new memoir, Child, will be published May 2022.
Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap (published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) was named one of the best books of 2019 by Real Simple magazine and received a starred review from Library Journal.
Her first memoir, Losing My Sister, was a finalist for both SIBA’s Memoir of the Year and ForeWord Review’s Memoir of the year. She received the Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award and the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for First Fiction, as well as the three prizes awarded for a poetry book by a North Carolinian and Silverfish Review Press’s Gerald Cable Prize. She received the Hobson Award for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters, the Fortner Writer and Community Award for “outstanding generosity to other writers and the larger community,” the Irene Blair Honeycutt Lifetime Achievement Award from Central Piedmont Community College, and the Beverly D. Clark Author Award from Queens University.
Her work has appeared in Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse, Ohio Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Washington Post, USA Today, Charlotte Observer, Real Simple, LitHub, and elsewhere.
She lives in Charlotte, NC, with her husband. They have two married children and four grandchildren.
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