Denis Ledoux, author of Turning Memories into Memoirs: A Handbook for Writing Lifestories (Soleil). Based in Lisbon Falls, Maine, he leads workshops on memoir writing and has been named the Lifewriting Professional of the Year by the Association of Personal Historians. He has worked with dozens of memoirists as a memoir ghostwriter, editor and coach. He also has won the Maine Fiction Award and twice received the Maine Writing Fellowship Award. TheMemoirNetwork.com
People write their memoirs to preserve their life stories. But they often discover that memoirs don’t just benefit future readers—the…