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Memoir
As a literary genre, a memoir (from the French: mémoire from the Latin memoria, meaning "memory", or a reminiscence), forms a subclass of autobiography – although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are almost interchangeable in modern parlance. Memoir is autobiographical writing, but not all autobiographical writing follows the criteria for memoir.
Memoirs are structured differently from formal autobiographies which tend to encompass the writer's entire life span, focusing on the development of his/her personality. The chronological scope of memoir is determined by the work's context and is ...more
Memoirs are structured differently from formal autobiographies which tend to encompass the writer's entire life span, focusing on the development of his/her personality. The chronological scope of memoir is determined by the work's context and is ...more
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Beautiful Hero: How We Survived the Khmer Rouge
by Jennifer H. Lau (Goodreads Author)
by Jennifer H. Lau (Goodreads Author)
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date: Oct 13, 2016
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Punch Happy: There's No Crying in Boxing
by Lux Alani (Goodreads Author)
by Lux Alani (Goodreads Author)
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date: Jun 01, 2017
Darkly humorous and told with striking grit, Lux Alani takes on solitude, midlife athleticism, and the siren call of boxing. Punch Happy celebrates th
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Running from the Mirror
by Howard Shulman (Goodreads Author)
by Howard Shulman (Goodreads Author)
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date: Oct 05, 2015
“Without doubt, one of the most moving and memorable memoirs I have ever read.”
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Popular Memoir Books
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Author of The Fact of a Body
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, which will be published by Flatiron Books (Macmillan) in May 2017. It is also forthcoming from publishers internationally. A National Endowment for the Arts fellow and Rona Jaffe Award recipient, she has twice been a fellow at both MacDowell and Yaddo. Her essays appear in The New York Times, Oxford American, Iowa Review, and many other publications, and were recognized “notable” in Best American Essays 2013, 2015, and 2016.
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