Mary Lacy (1740–1801) #sailor #shipwright #memoirist. 1759 ran away from home dressed as boy, servant to ship's carpenter in navy under name William Chandler then apprenticed as shipwright, took exam 1770. Paid a pension from admiralty under her legal name Mary Lacy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lacy

Why Writing A Memoir Is All About The ‘How’ | Your memories give you the material, but they don’t automatically make a memoir. Learn how to take the moments of your life and turn them into a story readers want to follow. By @amandaonwriting.bsky.social #memoir #memoirist #writingsky

Included are tales of wild adventures in filmmaking with Norman Mailer and Ilya Bolotowsky; the communist influence on the work of the writers and painters; as well as encounters with Truman Capote, Jean Stafford, P. G. Wodehouse, and others.

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From the front lines of a much-splintered #feminist movement, #RobinMorgan gave voice to #women as a #poet, #journalist, #novelist, #memoirist, #agitator & #iconoclast. She came of age in the civil rights & anti-Vietnam War movements, but along with other young women of the new left, she found […]