Marie Arana, a National Book Award finalist for her memoir of growing up between Latin- and Anglo-American cultures, American Chica, discusses the slippery slope between truth and fiction in memoir writing. At the heart of the matter is the question: Can your life be considered your own? The book editor for The Washington Post and a former publishing executive, Arana is also the editor of the collection, The Writing Life: Writers on How They Think and Work. Her forthcoming book is a novel entitled Cellophane.
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