NPR's National Story Project began on a hunch. A hunch that everyone has a story, and that many of us want our stories heard. What emerged from the 4,000 submissions was a sense of unintentional community, as people of all ages and all types sat down to write in kitchens and offices, and then mailed their words away.
Daughters, soldiers, a former mousekateer, mothers and priests, people wrote about what made them happy and what made them sad, what amazed them and what enraged them. The last line of one contributor, a lifer in prison, speaks for many, "I have never been perfect, but I am real."
It's stories of these people who, these days in particular, form the heart of a national narrative.
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Paul Auster, editor of "I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales From NPR's National Story Project"
and Jacki Lyden, Alternate Host and Senior Correspondent of NPR's "Weekend All Things Considered."
