The Story of Your Life: Writing A Spiritual Autobiography

Dan Wakefield, a best-selling writer and reporter, developed this book out of his own extensive experience in leading adult ed. classes in writing your own spiritual autobiography. Wakefield wrote his own spiritual autobiography, "Returning: A spiritual journey" (1988), which received positive reviews and remained in print for a decade.

I have used this book to lead spiritual autobiography classes almost annually since 1994. Wakefield's process works, he offers excellent suggestions in how to structure a class, and he provides great samples of writing from people who have taken his class. Highly recommended.

From the back cover, "Dan Wakefield won much praise for his own spiritual autobiography, Returning, which chronicles his dramatic return from drug and alcohol abuse and isolation. His many books include the bestselling novels, Going All the Way and Starting Over." Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, said of this book, "What a wonderful book is Dan Wakefield's The Story of Your Life. Surely it will help many people to write their own spiritual autobiographies, and so to become more aware of their own journeys. Many of the stories shared in this book are not only deeply moving, but challenging, too."