Grandpa's Memoir: A Gift That Keeps On Giving

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Many afternoons this fall, my father has been engaged in a project that interests the whole family: He's writing a small book. It won't be bound in hard cover, it will never appear on shelves at Barnes & Noble, and it won't make the bestseller list. In fact, only a handful of people, mostly relatives, will ever read it.

Even so, for them this slim volume may hold more meaning than all the other titles in their bookcases combined. It's an autobiography, recounting a long and productive life that began on a dairy farm in southern Wisconsin and continues in suburban Boston. As he writes it, my father will undoubtedly include accounts of working his way through college, along with details of his 42-year career as an electrical engineer and his happy 58-year marriage to my mother.

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Grandpa's Memoir: A Gift That Keeps On Giving

For nearly a decade, memoirs have reigned as one of the hottest genres in American publishing. Yet for every tell-all author whose personal revelations create a buzz on the talk-show c...

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