Ranging from the true-life experiences of Black, White and Jewish author Rebecca Walker to the dazzling short fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Once Upon a Childhood offers stories of family bonds and lessons learned throughout America, past and present. Includes writings by: Dorothy Allison Julia Alvarez T. Coraghessan Boyle Art Buchwald Willa Cather Sandra Cisneros Michael Cunningham Mary Crow Dog F. Scott Fitzgerald Ben Fong-Torres Ernest Hemingway...