Is “Running with scissors” the true story of Augusten Burroughs life?”
“As a literary genre, a memoir forms a subclass of autobiography, although it is an older form of writing. Memoirs may appear less structured and less encompassing than formal autobiographical works as they are usually about part of a life, often a public part, rather than the chronological telling of a life from childhood to adulthood/old age. Most memoirs are written from the first person point of view. Gore Vidal, in his memoir Palimpsest, adds another clarifying point for separating memoir from autobiography. He writes that “a memoir is how one remembers one’s own life, while an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double-checked.” (Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoir) ****************** And there is a lawsuit. According to an article Boston.com (2005): (Excerpts) “Too much fiction and not enough — that’s the paradoxical allegation at th
