Karen,

I would add:

The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives by Sasha Abramsky. (nonfiction with short first-person accounts within)

$2.00 a day: living on almost nothing in America edited by Kathryn J.Edin & H. Luke Shaefer (describes case studies)

Growing up Poor: A Literary Anthology edited by Robert Coles and Randy Testa

Heartland: a Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh

-Barb Lyons

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 4:41 PM Deloatch, Karen L <KDeloatch@ccc.commnet.edu> wrote:

Colleagues,

We have a professor who wants her class to find journal entries, diaries or excerpts of memoirs by Americans who have lived or are living in poverty. Do you have any names of such persons that you can provide? Thanks.

Karen DeLoatch

Head of Library Instruction/LTA Program Coordinator
Capital Community College
950 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103
Phone: (860) 906-5022

E-Mail: kdeloatch@ccc.commnet.edu

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