My name is Marion Roach Smith, and I am a memoir coach, memoir teacher, memoir editor and memoir writer who owns and runs The Memoir Project, the only place you need to get your memoir writing needs met. Here at The Memoir Project, we have online classes in every aspect of memoir writing, including entry level courses and courses in book structure, the art of the personal essay, how to write opinion pieces and digital commentary, and how to write book-length memoir. We also have six professional editors, all of whom know how to deliver your work to where you want it to go. Why go elsewhere?
Three weeks out of college, I went to work for The New York Times. Four books and countless magazine and radio essays later, the lessons learned at that great newspaper – getting it right and making it short – inform every piece I write and every piece I work with in my job as a memoir coach. Most of my own work is now in the form of memoir writing, including my most recent book, The Memoir Project, A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text on Writing & Life, published by Grand Central Publishing. Let me help you get your writing life where you want it to be.
Do you want to learn to write memoir of any length, and on every platform? You’ve come to the right place. I work as a memoir coach, memoir teacher and editor. I have an entire curriculum of online memoir classes. You can hire me to edit your work, or work with you as a writing coach. Perhaps you’d like to listen to my audio book. There are many ways in which I can help you. Just ask.
Much of my work includes a large helping of memoir, including my books The Roots of Desire: The Myth, Meaning and Sexual Power of Red Hair, (Bloomsbury, 2005) and Another Name for Madness, (Houghton Mifflin, 1985) and my commentaries for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. I have written for The New York Times Magazine, Prevention, Vogue, Good Housekeeping, The Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere.
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