Columns by RonPrice, by newest first

  • There are endless ways of telling one’s story. For this reason poets and writers Bernard Shaw may be wrong to think that the passive nature of their lives disqualifies them from even attempting to write their autobiography. Some writers often say that they do not think it is possible for a biographer to make anything at all interesting out of his life. Shaw thought his life was in his writing, or as he once put it, quoting Rabindranath Tagore: “the poem not the poet.”
  • The autobiographical aspects of writing, when understood more deeply, can be very useful to a wrier. That is my intention here in this second column on the subject.
  • Much of writing is a drawing from within, an autobiographical impulse. Autoethnography is simply a form of self-narrative that places the self within a social context. readers of this column will get insights into the field of autobiography.