I'm writing a book which is a memoir- insofar as a memoir is any account, usu- ally in the first person, of incidents that happened a while ago.
It isn't an autobiography, and it isn't "memoirs." I wouldn't dream of writing my memoirs; I'm only 40 years old. Or my autobiography; any chronology of my days would make very dull reading-I've spent about 30 years behind either a book or a desk. The book that I'm writ- ing is an account of a childhood in Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania, where...