ORONO – The Orono Public Library has been selected by the Maine Humanities Council to offer “Let’s Talk About It,” a free reading and discussion group with copies of the book available through the library.

The series, Telling the Truth: the Subject of Autobiography, begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, at the Orono Public Library, located in the Orono High School building, and continues for five sessions, meeting at the same time on Sept. 24, Oct. 8 and 22, and Nov. 5. A variety of 20th century autobiographies will allow readers to consider how truth is defined and who is capable of telling it.

Books to be discussed include Mary McCarthy’s “Memories of a Catholic Girlhood,” Geoffrey Wolff’s “The Duke of Deception,” Maxine Hong Kingston’s “The Woman Warrior,” Carolyn Kay Steedman’s “Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives” and Kim Chernin’s “In My Mother’s House.”

Nancy MacKnight will facilitate the discussions. MacKnight retired from the University of Maine in 2000 after serving on the English department faculty since 1972, and in academic affairs administration at the university and in the University of Maine System. She holds a doctorate from Columbia University, and degrees from Vassar College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Series books are available on loan at the library. For information or registration, call 866-5060.

The program is offered to Maine libraries through the Maine Humanities Council by a grant from the Belvedere Fund of the Maine Community Foundation.