Navigate the ethical and legal questions of writing about family, intimate partners, and identifiable people in memoir, with frameworks for naming, composites, consent, defamation risk, and contemporary publishing-industry standards.
## CONTEXT The ethics of writing about identifiable people is the most consequential non-craft decision in memoir, and the question affects every published memoir from Mary Karr's The Liars' Club through Tara Westover's Educated, Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House, Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know, and Sarah…
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