The Winchester Reader Author:Donald McQuade (Editor), Robert Atwan (Editor) 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, Stephe... more »n 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. Jean de Crevecoeur
America : the multinational society / Ishmael Reed
More than just a shrine : paying homage to the ghosts of Ellis island / Mary Gordon