Recommended Reading

Books On The Craft of Writing

• The Artist’s Way-A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity - Julia Cameron & Mark Bryan
• Writing Without Teachers - Peter Elbow (classic)
• Writing Down The Bones - Natalie Goldberg (classic)
• Bird By Bird: Some Instructions - Anne Lamott (classic)
• Here and Now: An Approach to Writing - Fred Morgan
• Writing From The Heart - Leslea Newman
• Your Life As A Story - Tristine Rainer
• Writing The Natural Way - Gabriele Lusser Rico
• Writing Your Life - Lois Willet Stanek
• Zen - In The Art of Writing - Ray Bradbury
• How To Write Your Own Life Story: The Classic Guide For The Nonprofessional Writer - Lois Daniel
• On Writing - Stephen King *****(excellent)
• From Memories to Manuscript The 5 Step Method of Writing - Joan Neubauer
• Writing In Flow - Susan Perry
• Writing Family Histories and Memoirs - Kirk Polking
• Writing Life Stories - Bill Roorbach
• Writing From Within: A Unique Guide To Writing Your Life's Story - Bernard Selling
• Inventing The Truth – The Art and Craft of Memoir - William Zinsser

Recommended Reading

• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
• Growing Up - Russell Baker
• Slaves in the Family - Edward Ball
• A Year In the Life - Sheila Bender
• Ava's Man - Rick Bragg
• Dry (Running With Scissors) - Augustin Burroughs
• Papa My Father: A celebration of Dads - Leo Buscaglia
• My Life as a Drinker - Susan Cheever
• The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
• An American Childhood - Annie Dillard
• The Tender Land: A Family Love Story - Kathleen Finneran
• Family - Ian Frazier 
• Pearl - Mary Gordon
• Washington – A Journalist’s Memoir – Meg Greenfield
• Granny D: Walking Across America in my 90th Year - Doris Haddock
• I Could Tell You Stories – Patricia Hampl
• How To Write Funny - John Kachuba
• The Liar's Club - Mary Karr
• The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
• Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life - C.S. Lewis
• The Color of Water - James McBride
• Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
• Teacher Man – Frank McCourt 
• The Tender Bar – J.R. Moehringer
• Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone - Mary Morris
• My Dog Skip - Willy Morris
• Tales From The Couch: Writers On Therapy - Jason Shinder 
• Truth Comes in Blows: A Memoir - Ted Solotaroff
• All The Finest Girls - Alexandra Styron
• The Glass Wall - Jeanette Walls
• One Writer’s Beginnings - Eudora Welty
• This Boy’s Life: A Memoir - Tobias Wolff 

Magazines

The Writer, Writer’s Digest, Bookmark, Writers’ Journal, Poets and Writers, Bloomsbury Review (www.google.com for more info).

Dealing With & Writing About Trauma, Loss & Grief

• Writing Out The Storm - writing your way through illness - Barbara Abercrombie
• The Situation and The Story - a writer and a teacher tells all - Vivian Gornick
• Living With Grief: Loss in Later Life - Hospice Foundation of America - Ken Doka, Editor
• Writing to Heal the Soul - Transforming grief through writing - Susan Zimmerman