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memoir

[mem-wahr, -wawr] / ˈmɛm wɑr, -wɔr /


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We spoke to the Hollywood titan about his new memoir, “Roll the Calls,” his punishing approach to “disloyalists” and the deliberate rage he inherited from his civil-rights-activist mother.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

It's likely to be the most significant royal book since Prince Harry's startling 2023 memoir, Spare, and Andrew Lownie's 2025 book Entitled, which doomed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's reputation.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

In the memoir, you write that in your 20s, when you told CAA chairman Mike Ovitz you were leaving the agency, he said he would ruin you.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

In a memoir being serialised in the Daily Mail newspaper, Charles Spencer claimed that the then-prince Charles sounded "giddily elated" the night Diana died in a car crash in 1996.

From Barron's

“But once a decision has been made, he has an equal obligation to carry it out with all his energy and wisdom,” the president wrote in his memoir.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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

There are many extraordinary memoirs of the European avant-garde, but Hemingway brings a unique poetry to his account of the golden years between the wars.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 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

“It’d be best to do it by subject. You know: histories, memoirs, grammars ” Fela stopped walking and gave a deep sigh.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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