Bill Clegg's 5 favorite memoirs

For The Daily Beast, Bill Clegg, author of Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, named his five favorite memoirs.

One title on the list:

Hole in the Sky
by William Kittredge

Kittredge grew up in southern Oregon, where his family owned—for many generations—thousands of acres of unspoiled ranchland. He would get married, drink too much, sleep around—and by his mid-thirties he not only needed to find a way out of his despair (which he does through writing), but he, along with his siblings, would be forced to sell the last tracts of the family land. His writing is breathtaking, and the story of individual salvation set against the longer chronicle of generational and natural ruin is powerful and surprisingly hopeful.

Read about another memoir on Clegg's list.

--Marshal Zeringue