But she does this, she explains, because "there is no purpose to a memoir, if it isn't honest."
"Down Among the Dead Men: a year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician" is a memoir of her first year on the job.
“I WAS reborn, born as an economist, at 8.00am on January 2nd 1932, in the University of Chicago classroom,” wrote Paul Samuelson in a memoir published earlier this month.
The President's memoir disinterred a past era.
Scribner recently published a “restored edition” of the author’s posthumous fictionalized memoir, A Moveable Feast.
In her memoir she reminisces about how the McGovern staffers would sometimes drive up to Austin for beers at Scholz Garten, a traditional Democratic hangout.
Amid personal effects that include their father's memoir, they discover a mysterious letter that seems to implicate him in a death-a murder, perhaps-when he was much younger.
Yet Mr Wolfensohn's memoir is plodding and for the most part bloodless;
Similarly, Carrie Fisher, whose film career had long since cooled off, regained the spotlight with her novels and memoir.
Until I read his memoir, I had no idea how difficult the pressure-packed years had been for him, or how hard he had been on himself, and me.
Novella Carpenter's 2009 memoir, Farm City, trumpets the value of raising chickens, pigs and bees-in Oakland.
He cited Ishmael's confession near the beginning of his memoir of the 1995 Bosnian peace talks, "to End a War" : "as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote."
Initially conceived as a treatise on race relations, it became the deeply personal memoir Dreams from My Father.
Much of Wallace's memoir is told in snippets of memory that take on an episodic structure.
Warren Harding’s extramarital exertions would provoke titters only after his death, when a tell-all memoir by one of his mistresses, Nan Britton, boasted of assignations in a White House cloakroom.
A biographer can seek corroboration elsewhere; a personal memoir does not have that advantage.
Mr Cheney's new memoir, despite its breezy self-justification, does little to dispel that notion, showing exactly how a vice-president can run amok.
I have no idea if this story is true or false, parable or memoir - but it has stuck with me ever since I read it years ago.
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