Donald Anderson is a professor of English and Writer in Residence at the U.S. Air Force Academy. The editor of the journal War, Literature and the Arts, he has published several books, including Fire Road (Iowa, 2001), which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, and the edited collections When War Becomes Personal: Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq (Iowa, 2008), Andre Dubus: Tributes, and aftermath: an anthology of post-vietnam fiction. At the invitation of the National Endowment for the Arts, he served on the panel that selected the contributions to Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families.
"Donald Anderson's Gathering Noise from My Life functions as a
brilliant kaleidoscope, the author's life refracted and reflected
through the mirrors of his memory. Composed of vivid moments from
Anderson's life, as well as snapshots of American history and
incisive quotes from literature, the book is an innovative memoir
that continually asks the reader the question: 'Is memory what
happened or how you felt about what happened?'"--Siobhan Fallon,
author, You Know When the Men Are Gone
"Donald Anderson's wonderful memoir Gathering Noise from My Life
comes to us like memory itself, in bits and fragments, a scramble
of time and geography. Slowly, the anecdotes and images, the
quotations and news stories, accumulate in our minds, and Butte
(Montana), Vietnam, and America itself in the 50s, 60s, and 70s
re-emerge fresh and vivid. If memoir is where a life and history
merge, where memory becomes art and art feeds memory, then this is
fine memoir indeed."--Elliott Gorn, author, Dillinger's Wild Ride:
The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One
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