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...Lante in Bagnaia (a distant memory of whose watercourse is preserved in one of the Getty's gardens, designed by the California artist Robert Irwin) to key American museums, such as the National Gallery in Washington and the Yale Center for British Art. "This," says Meier dryly in his memoir Building the Getty, to be published next month by Random House, "generated a great deal of discussion about what we ought to avoid...
Tina Louise will always be remembered as Ginger, the Gilligan's Island castaway with a case of evening gowns, but these days she has more serious concerns. Louise has written a memoir, Sunday, published by Golden Books' adult division. It details the bad time she had when her very young mother put her in boarding school. "Writing it was a healing process for me," she says. "But I also want parents to buy it and share it with their teenagers...
This is how Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin remembers the New York suburb Rockville Centre of her childhood in her memoir Wait Till Next Year. Though it outwardly embodies the popular conception of the '50s, this book doesn't tell the same old story. Goodwin reveals herself, not surprisingly, as a precocious child. From her ill, house-bound mother, she gained a love for books; from her oldest sister Charlotte, a sense of grace and style; and from Jeanne, the middle child, confidence and ambition. Her father taught her a love of baseball--especially of the Brooklyn Dodgers...
Going back to Rockville Centre prompted Goodwin herself to remember the most important details--a method of recollection she was not unfamiliar with: "When I was working with Lyndon Johnson on his memoirs, he lived in a house one mile away from the house he grew up in," she said. "We'd often walk the mile to that house, and the physical impact of being there really affected the memoir...Physical immediacy becomes so important...
Goodwin says she was surprised at the difference between her usual historical research and the kind of personal research she did for this memoir. "I didn't suspect the emotional impact of the book...Since my parents died while I was so young, I really had no home in Rockville Centre; I did not have a place to go until the book...