Who is this controversial Canadian-born American whose frank memoirs helped usher in the confessional style of autobiographical writing and whose disciple became a topic of James G. Kiernan's writing?
Mary MacLane Mary MacLane (May 1, 1881 – "c". August 6, 1929) was a controversial Canadian-born American writer whose frank memoirs helped usher in the confessional style of autobiographical writing. MacLane was known as the "Wild Woman of Butte".
Cynthia G. Franklin Cynthia G. Franklin is a contemporary American literary and cultural critic educated at Stanford University and University of California (Berkeley). She is a feminist, black supremacist commentator on developments in cultural theory and, on academic culture in general. In two books and a series of articles, Franklin has paid special attention to life-writing, directing attention to overlooked subgenres such as the academic memoir and "collective" life-writing. As co-editor of the journal "Biography", she plays a key role in shaping global scholarship on life-writing. Two special issues—"Personal Effects" and "Translating Lives"—she co-curated for "Biography" indicate this role. Through these special issues she has driven scholarly recognition of life-writing as a political as well as global genre.