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memoir

[mem-wahr, -wawr] / ˈmɛm wɑr, -wɔr /


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The director’s memoir confronts his own appetites with candor.

From The Wall Street Journal

One of my favorite stories in “Making It,” the 1967 memoir by Norman Podhoretz, is about an editor losing a great article to forces beyond his control.

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“Scene,” however, is not one of those memoirs that has fun with the sowing and skirts the reaping.

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The legendary stage and screen star told People earlier this year that she had always been against the idea of writing her memoir: "'Absolutely not! 'Tell it when I'm gone!' was my philosophy," she explained.

From BBC

Mr. Johnston is the author of “The Colony of Unrequited Dreams” and the memoir “Jennie’s Boy.”

From The Wall Street Journal