Who Are You?

Please file as comment before the first class the following:

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Degree Goal and Area of Specialization:


Answer the following questions and anything else you think might be relevant. Keep in mind you are posting this as a public comment.

• Where are you from?
• Why did you come to the University of Florida?
• Career Goals? Be specific as possible. Elaborate a bit.
  
• Outside interests, hobbies, avocations, things you love to do?
• Writing and/or editing experience?
• Tell me one interesting thing about you – something that makes you unique.
• What books are you reading and have read in the last three months?
• What magazines, newspapers and news Web sites do you read regularly?
• What other classes are you taking this semester?
• Thesis or dissertation topic?
• What are your expectations for this class?
  

SI's Fifty Years of Great Writing

SI's Fifty Years of Great Writing

The Players
The Boxer and the Blonde by Frank Deford
Yogi by Roy Blount Jr.
The Last Angry Men by Rick Telander
The Year, The Moment and Johnny Podres by Robert Creamer
Gifts That God Didn’t Give by John Papanek
All the Rage by Richard Hoffer
The Ring Leader by Frank Deford

Main Events
“Lawdy, Lawdy, He’s Great” by Mark Kram
There’s Never Been An Open Like It by Dan Jenkins
The Day Bobby Hit the Home Run by Roger Kahn
A Pay Night for Old Archie by Budd Schulberg

Sweet Spots
Finally, We Were Left Alone, Just Me And My Bike by Thomas McGuane
A Personalized History Of Scottish Golf Or You’ll Not Do That Here, Laddie by Dan Jenkins
The Univesrity of Eighth Avenue and Part II by A. J. Liebling
Sons of the Wind by Kenny Moore
Road Swing by Steve Rushin

Wild Kingdom
Mirror of My Mood by Bil Gilbert
Snakes Alive! by Jeff MacGregor
Pure Heart by William Nack
Grim Reapers of the Land’s Bounty by Jim Harrison
We Are Destroying Our National Parks by Wallace Stegner

Supporting Players
“There Ain’t No Others Like Me” by Mark Kram
Master of the Joyful Illusion by William Barry Furlong
The Coach and His Champion by Alexander Wolff
“I Managed Good, But Boy Did They Play Bad” by Gilbert Rogin
Baseball’s Babbling Brook by Huston Horn

Playing for Laughs
Hype (Absolutely, Positively the Greatest Article Ever Written!) by Bruce Newman
‘Ring Tossed by Steve Rushin
We All Had a Ball by Roy Blount Jr.
The Curious Case of Sidd Finch by George Plimpton
Lake Wobegon Games by Garrison Keillor
Worst Baseball Team Ever by Jimmy Breslin
On the Winter Tour by Herbert Warren Wind

Personal Fouls
The Case Against Brian Spencer by Pete Dexter
Total Loss Weekend by Don DeLillo
This Is the Game of the Name by Franz Lidz
Crime and Punishment by Gary Smith
Broken Promise by S.L. Price
O Unlucky Man by William Nack

Music to the Ear
King of the Sports Page by Rick Reilly
Then My Arm Glassed Up by John Steinbeck
Heavyweight Championship Of The Word by Jeff MacGregor
Would You Let This Man Interview You? by Myron Cope
The Big Wind in Chicago by Ron Fimrite
Kentucky: May: Saturday by William Faulkner

Examined Lives
Farewell, Teddy Ballgame by Leigh Montville
The Ripples From Little Lake Nellie by Gary Smith
The Best Years of His Life by John Ed Bradley
He’s Burning to Be a Success by John Underwood
Laughing on the Outside by John Schulian
The Best There Ever Was by Frank Deford

Links to Online Book Stores:

Links to online book stores:

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• half.com by ebay
• List of Bookstores on the Web
• Best Places to Save on Text Books
  

Brief Bibliography of Memoirs

Bibliography of Memoirs

The following is a list of several memoirs. For more memoirs, browse a bookstore or search on Amazon.com using key word "memoir."

Accidental Journey: A Cambridge Internee's Memoir
of World War II by Maryk Lynton
Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
Angeles Crest: A Memoir by Michael Modzelewski
Appel is Forever: A Child's Memoir by Suzanne
Mehler Whiteley
Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian
Black Ice by Lorene Cary
Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting
Self by Rebecca Walker
A Boy Called H by Kappa Senoh
The Circle of Hanh: A Memoir by Bruce Weigl
Clear Springs: A Family Story by Bobbie Ann Mason
Colored People: A Memoir by Louis Gates
Days of Grace: a Memoir by Arthur Ashe
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dinubuqye
Bauby
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra
Fuller
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
and James Houston
Finding Fish by Antwone Quenton Fisher
The Girl with the White Flag by Tomiko Higa
I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann
If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me
Home by Tim O'Brien
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
Manhattan Memoir by Mary Cantwell
My Sense of Silence by Lennard J. Davis
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Out of Place by Edward Said
Red Scarf Girl by Ji Li Jiang
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickem
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Robert F. Kennedy
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
This Tiger's Tale by Fran Angeline
The Unwanted by Kien Nguyen
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago