Whilst Frank McCourt [Angela's Ashes] and Augusten Burroughs [Running With Scissors; A Wolf at the Table] survived accusations of inaccuracies in their memoirs, James Frey's highly successful A Million Little Pieces, 2002 [featured on Oprah's Book Club] did not help the genre when it was later revealed he made up 70 per cent.  However, the truly … Continue reading Memoir and Voice and Why You Need to Sharpen Up