Peter Osnos
Peter Osnos was born in India in 1943 or 1944 — the available records offer two dates, both placing his birth on the first of January, a discrepancy that the sources leave unresolved. Whatever the precise year, his origins on the Indian subcontinent mark the beginning of a life that would carry him far from that starting point, into the professional world of American journalism and publishing.
Osnos has worked as a journalist, a career that placed him in the flow of public affairs and shaped his engagement with the written word over many decades. The Library of Congress records him simply as "Osnos, Peter," the spare institutional label offering little beyond confirmation of the identity that his professional life has given substance to. No further details about specific works, roles, or current location are available from the sources at hand, and the record closes there.
Quotes by Peter Osnos
In today's world, books have to compete with so much else for peoples' time, that unless they are present when and how the prospective readers wants them, attention will immediately turn elsewhere.
What I have always believed in 40 years of experience in the book publishing industry is that you can do what you want as a writer as long as you tell the reader what you are doing. Art is about honesty. My objection is not the use of memoir as literature it certainly can be. My objection is to the lack of honesty.
I don't think you would dispute that if I asked you to describe what you were wearing it would be a different description from mine. So it strikes me as not a big deal that memoir is subjective. It's that it has to be honest in its retelling of facts or tell you that it's not.