memoir
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Selected by Manil Suri, the author of the memoir “A Room in Bombay.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
This is a memoir, and Thayil spends a reasonable amount of pages opening up about his family of origin, his childhood and the place he grew up.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
Thayil’s memoir will absolutely encourage readers to listen again, or listen deeper, or even listen for the first time, and that’s really the highest praise you can give a rock and roll memoir.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
The Public Theater presents an adaptation of Susanna Kaysen’s memoir, with a book by Martyna Majok and a score by Aimee Mann.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
That was the harrowing story recounted in Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir made famous again by an award-winning film in 2013.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Vocabulary lists containing memoir
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Literary Genres - Introductory
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