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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 175: Caroline Paul
"I was losing something valuable, so I did what many dumb humans do: tried to gain control somewhere else. What better way to do that than command a…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 174: Francesca Fontana
"As a budding young reporter, I chose to dig up the past, turning my journalistic skills on my own family."
Feb 3
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 173: Anna Rollins
"I take pleasure in making people uncomfortable—not for the sake of discomfort, but because I want people to look at hard things and truly grapple with…
Jan 30
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 172: Domenica Ruta
"I was going to lose these people whether or not I wrote about them, so I just told the truth and accepted whatever fall-out, which to my surprise was…
Jan 27
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 171: Emma Gannon
"This is the first book I’m releasing outside of traditional publishing, where I’m in total creative control of all aspects of the book. So far, it’s…
Jan 23
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 170: Kate Walter
"I’m an outgoing person with a good social life. That disappeared during pandemic lockdown and I had to figure out how to cope with this major loss…
Jan 20
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #169: Catherine Pierce
" I realized what I needed in those years was a book that welcomed me into this wild new reality and made me feel part of a community of mothers like…
Jan 16
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #168: Sari Fordham
"I bring readers into the narrative through all their senses. I wanted them to hear the rain on a tin roof in Uganda and experience the heat of a…
Jan 13
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #167: Teresa Wong
"When I set out to do this book I didn’t know I'd have to draw everything that had ever existed: from mountains on the South China Sea to storefronts in…
Jan 9
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #166: Samina Najmi
"Growing up in Karachi, Pakistan, my first nonfiction love was Mark Twain’s memoir, "Life on the Mississippi"—for the world it depicted, but also very…
Jan 6
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire in Review...
A look at a handful of interviews in the series.
Jan 2
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #165: Judith Barrington
"If I live another decade, who knows, I might have another book in me."
Dec 30, 2025
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