memoir
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So begins “Never Say Die,” a memoir by the actor Ke Huy Quan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
She spoke negatively of that experience and called her co-star a bully in her memoir, released earlier this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
The apartment served as a base camp after he released his memoir, “I Was Wrong,” and plotted a national book tour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
In his memoir, “Every Man for Himself and God Against All,” he describes tracking down the Chaplin twins with a newspaper photograph of the building they lived in.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
When Olaudah Equiano published his memoir, he educated his readers about the horrors of the slave trade.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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Prime ministerial memoirs tell the stories of how central a moment it is in the week of any occupant of 10 Downing Street.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
All book adaptations, whether from novels or memoirs, could stand to embellish the facts here and there, or go ahead and reinvent the wheel when possible.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Davis now says he was in Los Angeles the night of the Shakur killing and that he has never even read his own memoirs.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
One of her biggest writers is the author-activist Glennon Doyle, who has chronicled addiction, divorce and an unexpected romance with soccer player Abby Wambach across a string of blockbuster self-help memoirs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
When I get home, I collect all my six-word memoirs and write one whole poem.
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
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