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Mallon has assembled a guide to the great diaries of literature -- from Samuel Pepys to Anais Nin. Mallon has written a new introduction for this edition which comments on the political consequences of keeping a journal, as in the former controversy involving Sen. Bob Packwood. A diarist himself, Mallon places journal writers in history, fleshing them out with both background and witty anecdote.Mallon, Thomas is the author of 'Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries' with ISBN 9780899192420 and ISBN 0899192424.
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