Portrait of Deborah Levy with colourful geometric shapes

Position of the ‘I’ from observer to centre stage  

This passage is from the contemporary British author Deborah Levy’s memoir, The Cost of Living:…

The presence of the ‘I’ in memoir and creative nonfiction

One of the challenges of writing memoir and other forms of narrative nonfiction is how much presence the ‘I’ should have as the narrator at any moment in the text.