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TIPS FOR COLLECTING STORIES
A Guide to Developing an Oral History

 By Robert B. Gentry

Dimensions: Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5, 64 pages

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Tips for Collecting Stories is an invaluable resource for anyone--professional or amateur--who is interested in compiling an oral history of a group of any sort (such as a family, business, school, or military unit) or even for broader topics such as the oral history of a town or cultural movement.

Robert Gentry is an award-winning short story writer and essayist. These skills proved invaluable in his development of an extensive oral history of his college, the critically acclaimed A College Tells Its Story, written in the style of Studs Terkel.  For the project, Gentry  interviewed 145 people, including alumni, faculty, students, board members, support staff, and others who told him their stories. That experience plus forty years of collecting stories for various literary purposes, both personal and professional, provide an excellent foundation for Tips for Collecting Stories: A Guide to Developing an Oral History.