Jen Knox

Birkerts, Sven. Reading Life: Book for the Ages, Danticant, Edwidge. Brother, I’m Dying, Ehrlich, Gretel. The Solace of Open Spaces, Fisher, MFK. The Gastronomical Me, Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud, Sigmund. Dora, Grealy, Lucy. Autobiography of a Face, Hampl, Patricia. The Florist’s Daughter, Lopate, Phillip. The Art of the Personal Essay, Lopate, Phillip. Getting Personal, Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others, Zinn Howard. A People’s History of the United States, Birkerts, Sven. The Art of Time in Memoir, Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood, Cheever, Susan. Note Found in a Bottle, Conroy, Frank. Stop-Time, Dickens, Charles. Hard Times, Dillard, Annie. An American Childhood, Gornick, Vivian. Fierce Attachments, Grealy, Lucy. Autobiography of a Face, Harrison, Katherin. The Kiss, Nabakov, Vladimir. Speak, Memory, Patchett, Ann. Truth & Beauty, Solomon, Andrew. The Noonday Demon, Strunk, William. The Elements of Style, Styron, William. Darkness Visible, Tolstoy, Lev Nikolayevich. Anna Karenina, Updike, John. Self Consciousness, Walls, Jeanette. The Glass Castle, Wolff, Geoffrey. Duke of Deception, Wolff, Tobias. This Boy’s Life, Bissell, Tom. The Father of All Things, Colt, Howe. The Big House, Didion, Joan. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking, Dillard, Annie. The Writing Life, Doty, Mark. Heaven's Coast, Erdal, Jennie. Ghosting, Gaitskill, Mary. Veronica, Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat Pray Love, Gordon, Mary. The Shadow Man, Howe, Tina. Painting Churches, Jong, Erica. Fear of Flying, Lenney, Dinah. Bigger than Life, Letts, Tracy. August: Osage County, Norman, Marsha. Night, Mother, O'Faolain, Nula. Are You Somebody?, Olds, Sharon. The Unswept Room, Shapiro, Susan. Only as Good as Your Word, Shawn, Allen. Wish I Could be There, Shields, David. The Thing About Life is that You'll be Dead, Solomon, Andrew. The Noonday Demon, Updike, John. Rabbit at Rest, Updike, John. Rabbit Redux, Updike, John. Rabbit is Rich, Updike, John. Rabbit, Run, Welty, Eudora. One Writer’s Beginnings, McCarthy, Mary. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Mill, John Stuart. The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill, Montaigne, Michel de. The Complete Essays, Prose, Francine. Reading Like a Writer, Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of Memory, Sedaris, David. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Sheff, David. Beautiful Boy, Skloot, Floyd. In the Shadow of Memory, ... to name a few

Freelance Writer, Editor, Ghostwriter, Fiction Editor at Our Stories Literary Journal, San Antonio College

Bennington College MFA, Otterbien College BA

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