Why join the Association of Personal Historians?
Celebrities and public figures have long employed professional writers and editors to help them with their memoirs. APH has led in the development of training in professional skills for helping both celebrities and ordinary people record and preserve their life stories, memories, voices, and images. People starting a personal history business, or thinking about it, often join APH to learn how personal histories are done and how to develop an income stream from doing them. But many new members already have experience doing life story work and are surprised to discover so many others in the field. Lettice Stuart, APHs third president, for example, had been producing memoirs for about a year when she learned about an APH conference in California in 1998. I had lots of clients, but I was just making the process up as I went along, says Lettice. So I flew from Houston to Santa Ana, rented a car, and went to the conference with very little expectation. That conference changed my life. I woul
