Family portraits : [electronic resource] remembrances / by twenty distinguished writers ; edited by Carolyn Anthony.

Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1989.

Great aunts / by Margaret Atwood -- My mother, Priscilla Stanton Auchincloss / by Louis Auchincloss -- My father : lawyer Sam Boorstin / by Daniel J. Boorstin -- Harvest home / by David Bradley -- The "F" is for fascinating / by Mary Higgins Clark -- A four-blade case / by Clyde Edgerton -- The many masks of Kathleen Godwin and Charlotte Ashe / by Gail Godwin -- The sweet Necháma / by Alfred Kazin -- Fragments : a portrait of my father / by Susan Kenney -- Facts, visions, mysteries : my father, Frederic Oates / by Joyce Carol Oates -- Wild women out of control / by Sara Paretsky --Remembering Uncle Will / by Walker Percy -- Looking back at my father / by May Sarton -- Bathsheba : a sacred memory / by Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Revisiting Teoc / by Elizabeth Spencer -- Letter, much too late / by Wallace Stegner -- Ruth's song (because she could not sing it) / by Gloria Steinem -- Yellow pages / by Morley Torgov -- Missing : a man with a briefcase / by Susan Allen Toth -- A cunning woman / by Jonathan Yardley.