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Thomas Larson is the author of The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative. He lectures and holds workshops on memoir writing throughout the United States. Larson writes personal essays, memoir, book reviews, and literary and music criticism for many publications, among them Gettysburg Review, Antioch Review, New Letters, Fourth Genre, and Free Inquiry. He regularly contributes book reviews for Contrary Magazine online. In the 1980s, he was the music critic for the Santa Fe New Mexican. After getting an undergraduate degree in music composition, he moved to San Diego in 1982 and earned a master's in American literature from UCSD. During the 1990s, he was a professor of English at San Diego City College. Since 1999, he has been a contributing writer for the Reader, where he specializes in feature journalism, narrative nonfiction, and profiles. His twin sons are Jeremy, a graphic designer, who lives in San Diego, and Blake, a poet and photographer, who resides in Oakland. Larson lives in Clairemont with his partner Suzanna. His website is thomaslarson.com.