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Topics in American Literature: Childhood and the Writer
David Espey profile

TR 10:30-12

For many modern and contemporary writers, the impulse to write often has its roots in rich and vital memories of community and family, whether sweet or traumatic.  Keeping in mind the word of American novelist Wright Morris that "Anything processed by memory is fiction," we'll examine America...

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