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memoir

[mem-wahr, -wawr] / ˈmɛm wɑr, -wɔr /


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At times, however, the passages quoted from letters and memoirs come so thick and fast that they threaten to overwhelm the connecting strand of Mr. Hart’s own chronological narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal

Disgraced Spanish ex-king Juan Carlos I on Monday appeared in an unexpected video aimed at young people days before his memoirs come out in Spain, defending his record against "distortions".

From Barron's

A slew of memoirs by Californians, famous and not, crossed my desk this year.

From Los Angeles Times

“The farther we look back and the farther we look forward, the less happy we are,” says Fagan, a professor who wrote a memoir about her experience.

From The Wall Street Journal

In “Coyote,” Mr. Dowling doesn’t interview Ms. Lange, or Shepard’s children, or Ms. Jones, who tells him that she is working on her own memoir.

From The Wall Street Journal