"All fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction."
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Editors from the United StatesMemoirists from the United StatesHistorians from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesWomen born in the 1930s
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Quoted in Mickey Pearlman, Listen to Their Voices (1993), ch. 12
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Shirley Abbott (author)
Shirley Jean Abbott Tomkievicz (November 16, 1934 - April 8, 2019) was a magazine editor, writer, journalist, and historian, most noted for her three volumes of memoirs.
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