The Winchester Reader

Preface for instructors -- Part one: the first-person singular -- Writing for oneself : Anne Frank, Alice James, Henry David Thoreau, John Mack Faragher -- On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion -- Diary : at an artist's colony / Toi Derricotte -- On keeping a diary / William Safire -- Ambitions : Mario Puzo, Zora Neale Hurston, James Truslow Adams, Stephen Crane -- Learning to read and write / Frederick Douglass -- Gumption / Russell Baker -- Two kinds [story] / Amy Tan -- Moments of recognition : James Joyce, Michael Dorris, Arnold Van Gennep -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- Salvation / Langston Hughes -- A & P [story] / John Updike -- Places in the heart : Edward Abbey, D.H. Lawrence, Eudora Welty -- Once more to the lake / E.B. White -- The solace of open spaces / Gretel Ehrlich -- Ringgold Street / David Bradley -- The power of names : William Shakespeare, Haig A. Bosmajian, Booker T. Washington, Lucien Levy-Bruhl -- "What's your name, girl?" / Maya Angelou -- Names / Mary McCarthy -- Seeing the elephant / Paul Gruchow -- Divided identities : Erik H. Erikson, Jan Clausen, Gloria Anzaldua -- Growing up Asian in America / Kesaya E. Noda -- Split at the root : an essay on Jewish identity / Adrienne Rich -- On being black and middle class / Shelby Steele -- Part two: the social fabric -- What is an American? : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Ralph Ellison, Enrique Lopez -- What is an American? / J. Hector St.