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Shirley Showalter
Shirley Hershey Showalter’s memoir,
Blush: A Mennonite Girl Meets a Glittering World
won the Spirituality and Practice Best Memoir of 2013 award. Visit her blog at
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Better Than Fall Back: The Small Press Option
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Why Is There a Surge in Memoir? Is It a Good Thing?
Flickr / Meni's Style and A S O ! Today's guest post is by Shirley Hershey Showalter, who has been ...
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