Peace Corps Experience: Write and Publish Your Memoir

ISBN: 1469760894

Author: Lihosit, Lawrence F

Condition: New

Product Description "Peace Corps Experience: Write & Publish Your Memoir will prove useful to those interested in writing and publishing their story." Aaron S. Williams, Peace Corps Director (2009-2012)"Tell your Peace Corps story, but first study this book."Robert Klein, Peace Corps Oral History Project, Kennedy Library"This book is no idle gift, but a gift-wrapped challenge." Jane Albritton, Series Editor, Peace Corps at 50 Project"The bible on Peace Corps memoirs." Will Lutwick, author of Dodging Machetes: How I Survived Forbidden Love, Bad Behavior, and the Peace Corps in FijiThe ultimate "how-to" book for former volunteers and staff who have hesitated to write about their own experience. This book explains what a memoir is, how to write, publish and promote. Review Excerpt from Peace Corps Worldwide Review by Leita Kaldi Davis It is vitally important to write about your Peace Corps experience, not only for your own gratification, but for posterity, because the countries we served in are changing rapidly, and a Volunteer's experience gives great insight into far-flung places at different points in history. From the Author William Burroughs once said that there are two kinds of writers; those who write and those who talk about writing. The writers, he said, are like bullfighters while the talkers are more bullshitters. Bullfighting is more my line. About the Author Lawrence F. Lihositwas born in the southern suburbs of Chicago, Illinois in 1951. His family later moved to Arizona where he graduated from grade school, high school and Arizona State University. He reluctantly served in the U.S. Army Reserves during the closing years of the Vietnam War and enthusiastically volunteered for the Peace Corps (Honduras, 1975-1977). His travels and work have taken him from the salmon spawning Nushagak River Basin in southwestern Alaska to the fertile Argentine Pampas. His continuing studies have included master's coursework in urban planning at la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City, art and creative writing at Skyline College in San Bruno, California and education at California State University Fresno. He has earned his living as an urban planner for many years, working in Honduras, Mexico, Alaska, Arizona and California.