A tutorial workshop designed to explore the problems and possibilities that arise in the composition of memoir. Students will do two kinds of writing: critical analysis of published memoir (writers will include Vladimir Nabokov, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tobias Wolff), and memoir of their own. In keeping with the tutorial format, students will meet in pairs with the instructor once each week; during these meetings, students will present a short paper or piece of memoir, or join the instructor in responding to one such paper or work of memoir. Evaluation will be based on class participation, short writing assignments, and forty final pages of original memoir. Prerequisite: English 206, 283, 286, or 379, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limit: 10 (expected: 10). If the course is overenrolled, enrollment decisions will be based on writing samples.