Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Six writers on the pleasures and pitfalls of writing about their past, based on a series of talks sponsored by the Book of the Month Club and held at the NY Public Libary in 1986. Edited with a memoir and an introduction by William Zinsser. The other authors are Russell Baker, Annie Dillard, Alfred Kazin, Toni Morrison, and Lewis Thomas. Notes on the contributors. 172 pp. ISBN: 0-395445264.