What I Think I Did (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry Woiwode
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Memoirs
- Time of Work: 1960-1996
- Setting: North Dakota, with detours to Illinois and New York City
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, New York, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, New York City, 1980’s, Novelists, 1990’s, Illinois, North Dakota
- Locales: New York, NY, Illinois, North Dakota
Larry Woiwode’s writing has been widely acclaimed, receiving many prizes and positive reviews, but his fiction has never really become part of the literary mainstream. This autobiography, Woiwode’s second work of nonfiction following Silent Passengers, a book on the biblical Book of Acts published in 1993, may well bring Woiwode a widened readership.
Woiwode relates his memoir from the vantage point of the winter of 1996-1997, whose cold and isolation are a natural spur to retrospection. Woiwode resettled as an adult in his childhood home of North Dakota. He lived as a...
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