Writing a Memoir, Writing a Biography | Write Your Memoir

Memoirs by physicians have have the added layer of insight which comes from a trained physician’s eye. Abraham Verghese’s 1994 memoir, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story, is one of my favorite physician-memoirs. Verghese published a wonderful first novel last year, Cutting for Stone:

Review of Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

At the Self-Publishing Book Expo I attended recently in New York, I met three women whose memoirs successfully tackle these potentially overpowering topics:

1. leaving your country of origin;
2. growing up in a faraway land;
3. being raped or sexually abused.

Past experiences such as these may seem too big to write about comfortably. But perspective changes everything. Check out these three memoirs and how each woman’s viewpoint has shaped her storytelling.

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