Preface for instructors -- Part one: the first-person singular -- Writing for oneself : Anne Frank, Alice James, Henry David Thoreau, John Mack Faragher -- On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion -- Diary : at an artist's colony / Toi Derricotte -- On keeping a diary / William Safire -- Ambitions : Mario Puzo, Zora Neale Hurston, James Truslow Adams, Stephen Crane -- Learning to read and write / Frederick Douglass -- Gumption / Russell Baker -- Two kinds [story] / Amy Tan -- Moments of recognition : James Joyce, Michael Dorris, Arnold Van Gennep -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell --…
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