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Renowned writer and University of Minnesota Regent's Professor Patricia Hampl delivers a speech entitled 

The Inside Story: How Autobiography Can Change Your Life - and World History.

  The literary memoir has grown in popularity and cultural influence over the past few decades, invading territory once held by historians and novels.  Hampl discusses the power of the first-person narrative.  The event, the 2003 Lindbergh Lecture, took place at the Minnesota History Center on Tuesday.

Renowned writer and University of Minnesota Regent's Professor Patricia Hampl delivers a speech entitled The Inside Story: How Autobiography Can Change Your Life - and World History.  The literary memoir has grown in popularity and cultural influence over the past few decades, invading territory once held by historians and novels.  Hampl discusses the power of the first-person narrative.  The event, the 2003 Lindbergh Lecture, took place at the Minnesota History Center on Tuesday.


Patricia Hampl on the autobiography

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