![]() It recalls lost worlds and new lives as memories conjured like film images floating across the page. This book is often referred to as one of the most beautifully written memoirs of our time-or any other. Her personal essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Lukinson, whose films have received three Emmys and seven Writer’s Guild Awards, teaches at NYU and the 92nd Street Y. Each writer recounts lost worlds and the unexpected lives of their youth: a colorful family in Egypt ill-fated liberal Russian aristocrats and, writing from the trenches of World War I, a soldier-poet tells of war from the ground level.Įach session includes readings from the featured work and archival film clips and stills. Memorable autobiographies, experiences told through the eyes and words of the author, are powerful evocations not just of a person, but a time and place, vividly transporting us inside the world of another to experience life as they did.ĭocumentary filmmaker and writer Sara Lukinson looks at three remarkable lives filled with joys, hopes, war, exile, family, and the complexities of the human heart. Save when you purchase the In Their Own Words series! ![]()
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