memoir

As she writes in her new memoir, “Bread of Angels,” “Mine was a Proustian childhood, one of intermittent quarantine and convalescence.”

Speer’s reputation as a “good Nazi” was enhanced by his relentlessly self-justifying memoirs.

John Check on an accompanist’s memoir, a life of film composer John Williams and more reading gifts for music lovers.

But Dillon’s memoir, as the author notes, was also rife with fictions.

“It wasn’t just any cake tin. It was the heart-shaped tin I had used to bake my own wedding cake,” Ms. Wilson, a British chef and food author, explains in her wise, engaging memoir.