Opening Questions
1) What is the difference between Memoir, Fiction, and Biography?
2) What steps are necessary to prepare and to write a memoir?
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- 2018 HUMAN LIBRARYFeb. 9 & Feb. 10
1 – 4 p.m.
Paresky Student Center
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- Books 2018
- “Enemy of the People”: The Life and Times of a Modern Journalist
- 19 Years in Prison
- A Fool’s Journey – Revised: Leaving Your Comfort Zone
- A Unicorn’s Perspective
- Accidental(?) Activist
- Balancing Faith and Academe
- Becoming Atheist in a Foreign Country
- Being Adopted
- Bi Guy: Underemployed & Overweight
- Challenging My Ethics in Asia
- Delivering Diversity: Conservative Thought at Williams
- Forever a Long Distance Human
- Former Southern Baptist with a Gay Brother
- From Wall Street to East Harlem
- Girl Named Disaster
- Gun Talk
- Harm Reduction & Syringe Exchange
- Home Educated
- Homeschooling Mom
- How Becoming Friends With A Person Who Was Incarcerated Made My World Bigger
- Lesbian Mixed Ex-Christian US Veteran
- Libertarian
- Lightening Survivor: My Personal Journey
- Local Journalist in the Era of Fake News
- Musical Queer/Queer Musician
- My 150-Pound Weight Loss Journey
- Once a Marine, Always a Marine
- Parenting Schizophrenia
- Polyamorous
- Queer Porn Star, Stripper, and Sex Workers’ Rights Activist
- Raising an Interracial Family
- Richest Poorest Person I Know
- Shaman
- The Beautiful Curse of a Name
- The Daughter of Narcissus
- Transgender
- We Are All Implicated
- White Parent, Black Child
- Whom Should Williams Educate?
- Zen Buddhist
- Previous Books
- Books 2012
- Assistant General Counsel for the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board
- Buddhist
- Child of Holocaust Survivors
- Evangelical Christian
- Fat Woman
- Female Aerospace Engineer
- Feminist / Womanist
- Ghanaian-American ? African-American?
- Hacker
- Hurricane Survivor
- Iraq War Veteran
- LDS Missionaries (Mormons)
- Libertarianism
- Male Nurse
- Male Victim of Sexual Assault
- Model Minority
- Motorcycle Enthusiast
- Muslim Woman
- Olympic Athlete
- Palestinian
- Professor
- Psychiatrist
- Queer
- Raised in Orphanage
- Recovering Alcoholic
- The Gipsy Tale
- Transgender
- Vietnam Vet
- Williams Student
- Books 2013
- 9/11 on 15th Street
- Archaeologist
- Child Psychiatrist
- Community Activist
- Daughter of Divorce
- Feminist / Womanist
- First Generation Student
- Fleeing Communism
- Gay Varsity Athlete/EMT
- Gun Shop Owner/ Firemams Safety Instructor
- Iraq War Veteran
- Legacy Student
- Libertarian
- Man who has never watched TV
- Mission Custodian
- Mixed Identity
- Mythic Professor
- New York Painter/Widowed Dad
- Orthodox Jew
- Philosopher
- Prison Radical Islam
- Quaker
- Queer Rabbi
- Recovering Alcoholic
- Recovering Anorexic
- Refugee
- Roma (Gipsy)
- Shaman
- Southerner
- Surviving Homelessness and Poverty in America
- Teen Child of Manic Alcoholic
- That Guy in the Library
- The Answer Within
- Third Culture Kid
- Town Manager
- Unitarian Universalist
- Veiled Woman
- Williams Admissions Dean
- World War II Veteran
- Yoga Master
- Zen Buddhist
- “Cutter,” “Crazy”
- Books 2014
- “Old” Williams
- ‘The Use of Time is Fate’: Practicing Life
- 1.5-Generation Jamaican Immigrant
- 11.5 Years of Home Schooling
- 16 Years in Prison
- A Palestinian Abroad/A Palestinian in America
- Active Williamstown Native
- An Atheist from a Religious Family
- Artist/Scientist
- Cervical Cancer Survivor and HPV
- Christian Latina College Student
- Coming Home to Music
- Competitive Highland Bagpiper
- Complex Life of a First Gen Student
- De-Radicalizing Muslims in Spain
- Divestment Advocate
- Doula/Homebirther
- Draft Dodger/War Resister
- Fat Woman
- Firearms Safety Instructor and Gun Shop Owner
- Firewalker
- First Generation Jamaican American Williams College Student
- Fleeing Communism
- From First Gen Latino College Student to Professor of Philosophy
- From Wall Street to Spring Street
- Gay College Student
- Growing Up in the Jim Crow South
- Growing Up in the Middle East
- I Pick the Movies You See
- International Expedition Cyclist
- Interracial Marriage
- Iraq War Veteran
- Irish Catholic + Black Muslim = Love
- Journey of a Social Justice Educator
- Libertarian
- Man Who Has Never Watched TV
- Married College Student
- Mash It Up
- MBA Student
- Memoir Writer
- Mobile Games and Social Change
- Mutahajebah (Veiled Woman)
- Off-cycle Tibetologist/Musician
- Olympic Athlete
- Pan Arabism?
- Peace Corps Volunteer: Botswana 2011-13
- Public School Principal
- Questionably Orthodox Jew
- Rabbi/Williams Alum
- Raised in the Projects and Foster Care
- Recovering Alcoholic
- Retired Navy SEAL Master Chief, 1990-2012
- Shaman
- Teen Child of a Manic Alcoholic
- The Long Good-bye: 20 Years of Mom with Alzheimer’s
- Theatre Critic
- Third Generation Legacy Student at Williams College
- Trans man/emt/nontrad student
- Truck Driver
- White Guy Who Studies China
- Williams Admissions Dean
- World War II Veteran
- Books 2015
- A World War II Christian Rescuer in Nazi-Occupied France
- Adoptee
- Adult Child of Manic Alcoholic
- American Sovereign Authority in the Digital Age: A Post 9/11 Veteran’s Perspective
- Archeologist
- Beekeeper
- Cancer at 21
- Child of Deaf Adults
- Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass: Life on the Family Farm
- Couchsurfer
- EMT Dealing With Death And Dying
- Ex Horse-Wrangler
- Faith, Discipleship, Activism
- Farmer
- Fat Woman
- From First-Gen to college VP
- From Recruited Athlete to College Academic
- Geography of Global Blackness
- Growing up in the Jim Crow South
- Having Sick Siblings and Big Dreams
- Improvised Rastafarian
- Interracial Family
- Libertarian
- Life After a Near Death Experience
- Married College Student
- Memoir Writer
- My Experience With Homelessness
- National Snowmobile Champion
- Nature and Hunting
- Parenting a Child With Autism/Aspergers
- Polyamorous Homoromantic Asexual Man
- Pre-Med
- Rodeo Cowboy / Ocean Yacht Racer
- Shaman
- Syrian Arab
- Where is the Intersection of Religion and Culture?
- Why are we so sick? A chiropractor’s perspective
- Working at the White House on 9/11
- Working on Broadway: The glitz, glamour and boredom
- World War II Veteran
- Books 2016
- A Cop’s Perspective
- A Fool’s Journey – Pushing Beyond Fear
- Adult Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse
- Adventures Being an Undercover Pimp and Selling Marijuana
- An Orange for Mother Teresa
- Arya the Fire Spinner
- Child of Communism
- Childhood of Neglect and Loss
- Climate Change and People Change: A conversation with a retired psychotherapist
- Competitive Fishing: For Fun AND Money?
- Confused third culture kid
- Disability Advocate
- Do I own the Montague Bookmill or does it own me?
- El Salvador: The Face of Revolution
- Empathy-A Title With No Face!
- Fraternity Days in the ’50s
- From Music to Ministry: A Journey from the Organ to the Altar
- Gemology: The Study of Gemstones
- Ghetto, Immigrant, and Valedictorian: Redefining Labels
- Growing Up in a Truly Wackadoodle Family
- Growing Up in an Immigrant Family
- Gun Talk
- Hairstyles and Returning to Natural
- Hanging in the Balance: An Independent Filmmaker’s Story
- Having a Parent with a Degenerative, Debilitating Disease
- In the Hearts of Many
- Intensive Care Unit Nurse
- Interracial Marriage Over the Last 35 years
- IRL Holden Caulfield
- Jehovah ‘s Witness
- Libertarian
- Mother with Mental Illness
- Muslim Feminist
- My Gay Uncle Stole My Birthday Cake (and it made me a better person)
- Nature Observation and Tracking
- Ocean Yacht Racer
- Orphanage Life During the Great Depression
- Parenting a Child with Aspergers/Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Parenting a Child with Type 1 Diabetes
- Parenting a Zebra
- Pro-Life at Williams College
- Quilter, Blogger, Artist, Writer
- Rastafarian
- Rodeo Cowboy
- Shaman
- Small Town Photojournalist
- Solutions Rising: Eve Ensler, One Billion Rising & Me!
- Synesthete
- The Gift of Cancer
- The Phenomenology of Hair
- The Secret of Health
- The Well-Adjusted ‘Crazy’ Girl
- Theology and the Vietnam Experience
- Therapy Dog Trainer/Handler
- Therapy Dog Trainer/Handler
- Truant to Teaching: Ten Tips of Highly Effective Thieves
- What becomes of an aging queer activist?
- Why I’m Called a Draft Dodger
- Woman Marine Veteran
- Books 2017
- A Triple Minority in Trump’s America
- A Zionist Israeli Loves You
- An outsider from within
- Animal Tracker
- Asian American Immigrant
- Boxer Love: Rhino the Therapy Dog
- Brother of Someone with Autism
- But You Don’t Look Irish
- Expelled from Prep School for Attempting Suicide
- Fat Woman
- First-Gen Haitian-American
- Forged by Adversity
- From Farmer to Welder to Plumber to Scholar
- Gun Talk
- Home Schooled
- Homeschooling Mom
- How to be a Muslim Bisexual
- Inherited Trauma of a Holocaust Descendent
- It’s Your Life! Facing Your Own Mortality
- Lapsed Procrastinator
- Legal Aid Lawyer
- Libertarian
- Lioness: Adopted Indian-American Journalist Baker
- Mother of an interracial family
- Mother of an interracial family
- My 150 pound weight loss journey
- My years of serving in silence
- My years of serving in silence
- Parenting Schizophrenia
- Parents with Mental Illness are Still Parents
- Pro Life: The Safest Space
- Queer; raised Buddhist; from a Muslim-Majority, pluralistic Country
- Raising a Zebra
- Rastafarian
- Refugee Immigrant
- Republican and NRA Member
- Stay in Your Lane: Grassroots to Gold
- Survivor: Queer, Black, and Christian
- The Daughter of Narcissus
- The Daughter of Narcissus
- Trying to not be Misogynistic
- White Parent, Black Child
- Williams Admission: How Stereotyped Is it?
- Books 2012
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