Virginia’s Apple is a collection of fourteen literary memoirs which may be read as one larger narrative. Some capture the exhilaration, the wildness, the surprises, and the self-invention, as well as the confusion and conflicts of the early years of the women’s movement. Others conjure up life as a lesbian before it became accepted, becoming a writer, and changing countries. Woven throughout is the slow unfolding of delayed grief over the death of the author’s parents when she was nineteen. These evocative stories of loss and love are beautifully crafted and full of humor and gentle self-questioning.
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Biography, Memoirs & Letters
Judith Barrington’s Lifesaving: A Memoir was the winner of the Lambda Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. She is the author of the best-selling Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art and five collections of poetry. Her memoirs have appeared in many literary magazines including Creative Nonfiction, ZYZZYVA, Narrative Magazine, Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, and were “Notable Essays” in The Best American Essays. She live in Portland, Oregon.
