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memoir

[mem-wahr, -wawr] / ˈmɛm wɑr, -wɔr /


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Davies - who recently released his memoir 'The Queerest of Folk: A Life in Television' - got his first break aged 22 working in BBC children's TV "for £50 a day".

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The key evidence included interviews Davis gave authorities, a documentary and his own 2019 memoir detailing the killing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Davis, prosecutor Marc DiGiacomo argued Tuesday, profited off the rapper’s death in writing his memoir and “deserved the maximum possible sentence.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

John Benjamin Hickey directs this tale of a well-connected family whose status is put at risk when its daughter returns home having written a tell-all memoir.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The detective wrote a bestselling memoir in 1867, History of the United States Secret Service.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

And he wrote one of history’s great memoirs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

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

The investigation sputtered for decades because of a lack of evidence, but the cold case was revived with the publication in 2019 of Davis's memoirs.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

The king was asleep, exhausted by the effort of writing his memoirs about the war.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White


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