How long does it take to read Modern American Memoirs?
Annie Dillard, Cort Conley
Modern American Memoirs by Annie Dillard, Cort Conley takes about 8 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 14 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1995. 449 pages, about 123,475 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In Modern American Memoirs, two very discerning writers and readers have selected samples from 35 of the finest memoirs written in this century, including contributions by such diverse writers as Margaret Mead, Malcolm X, Maxine Hong Kingston, Loren Eisely, and Zora Neale Hurston. Chosen for their value as excellent examples of the art of biography as well as for their superb writing, the excerpts present a broad range of American life, and offer vivid insight into the real-life events that shaped their authors. Here, readers can learn about the time when Harry Crews, playing as a boy, fell into a vat of boiling water with a dead hog; Chris Offutt joined the circus and watched a tattooed woman swallow a fluorescent light; and Frank Conroy practiced yo-yo tricks.
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Biography, American Authors, Autobiographies, Authors, biography
