Martha Sherrill
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Martha Peter Sherrill Martha Sherrill Peter Sherrill
Martha Sherrill was ready to write a memoir. She had the subject: her father, Peter, a well-known polling expert and software company founder; she had the book contract, with Random House, which paid her a healthy advance. At a time when the publishing business is struggling with the meaning of truth and memoir, Ms. Sherrill, 47, is in a way the anti-James Frey: an author who turned her back on a lucrative memoir not because she could not handle the truth, but perhaps because the truth was too important to let go.