Margaret Sartor

Author of Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s

5 Works 304 Members 11 Reviews

About the Author

Margaret Sartor teaches at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Image credit: John Burlinson. Nov. 3, 2007

Works by Margaret Sartor

What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney (2000) 30 copies

Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897–1922 (2019) — Editor — 11 copies

Dream of a House: The Passions and Preoccupations of Reynolds Price (2017) — Editor — 6 copies

Our Strange New Land: Photographs from Narrative Movie Sets Across the South (2022) 3 copies

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Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Louisiana, USA

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Where we find ourselves : the photographs of Hugh… by Hugh Mangum

A remarkable collection for their quality as well as the historical record.

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2wonderY | Dec 19, 2023 |

Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and… by Margaret Sartor

Really, the author should have written a memoir, and used the years since to add some insight into her life and the times she was living in. I find rereading my own diaries somewhat boring, and mine are wayyyyy more interesting than this!

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Rdra1962 | 9 other reviews | Aug 1, 2018 |

Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and… by Margaret Sartor

This book wasn't what I was expecting. I thought it would be more like "Little Miss Sunshine," but it really was just excerpts from a teenager's diary.

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DBrigandi | 9 other reviews | Jul 3, 2017 |

Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and… by Margaret Sartor

Pretty good memoir about growing up in the 1970s. Sartor consulted her old diaries and letters to reconstruct this moment in time. I'm always up for a memoir, and this one was worth the trip. It felt very authentic.

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satyridae | 9 other reviews | Apr 5, 2013 |

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