Jill Kathryn Ker Conway (born 1934) was a historian interested in the role of women in American history. She became the first woman president of Smith College in 1975. Jill Kathryn Ker was born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia, a small town 75...

WHEN MEMORY SPEAKS: EXPLORING THE ART OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY; JILL KER CONWAY VINTAGE BOOKS, 1999 Jill Ker Conway's exploration of the art of autobiography, When Memory Speaks, looks at the cultural assumptions underlying self-narratives in "modern and postmodern times." Ker Conway is...

When last heard from, Jill Ker had reached a way station in her flight to freedom. The year was 1960 and the 26-year-old Ker was on her way from Sydney to the United States. "I was leaving because I didn't fit in,...

In the following negative review of When Memory Speaks, Stannard criticizes Conway's selection of material for the collection and faults several of her theories regarding the genre of autobiography.

In the following review, Cole offers a favorable assessment of True North.

In the following mixed review of Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women, Miner praises the inspirational autobiographies included in the anthology, but criticizes Conway's failure to provide smooth transitions and questions her inclusion criteria.

Explores William Faulkner's Nobel Prize speech and details its effect on the books An American Childhood, by Annie Dillard, The Road to the Coorain, by Jill Ker Conway, and Growing Up, by Russell Baker.