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Maureen Howard

Abandoning the conventional chronology of autobiographies, the author groups memories and events around such themes as money, culture, and sex, marking the paths she traveled to discover her own voice and her own art.

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · high confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> BiographyFamily BiographyMemoir & Personal HistoryFamily, Childhood & Adoption

Award History

1 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionMajor1978Co-winnerSecondary source
National Book Award for Autobiography and Biography PaperbackMajor1981FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The memoir groups memories around themes like money, culture, and sex to trace the author’s paths toward discovering her own voice and her art.

    Model confidence 74%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    30 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 52%.