The popularity of such books as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, May Karr's The Liar's Club, and Kathryn Harrison's controversial The Kiss, has led columnists to call ours "the age of memoir." And while some critics have derided the explosion of memoir as exhibitionistic and self-aggrandizing, litera[...]
Examines the ethical questions involved in biography and autobiography when personal lives are scrutinized and private secrets are revealed.[...]