as in biography
a history of a person's life
the former senator has a lucrative contract to write his memoirs, in which he will supposedly set the record straight
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Certainly, Ephron’s memoir lacks the visceral sadness, gut-punching grief that Didion chronicled so intrepidly and with such gravitas, but the authors do share a pile-up of mid-life bad news: Delia’s beloved sister Nora dies in 2012 and her doting husband in 2015.
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
The Lin Oliver of the memoir was James (Kaplan), and James would keep pushing me and pushing me to remember all of the story.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2024
His debut memoir, Bedroom Rapper, was published in 2022.
—Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
But Yang and Rogers also astutely bring up that Carey didn't even get a Spoken Word nomination for her excellent audiobook to her excellent memoir, The Meaning of Mariah.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2024
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
The Lin Oliver of the memoir was James (Kaplan), and James would keep pushing me and pushing me to remember all of the story.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2024
His debut memoir, Bedroom Rapper, was published in 2022.
—Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
But Yang and Rogers also astutely bring up that Carey didn't even get a Spoken Word nomination for her excellent audiobook to her excellent memoir, The Meaning of Mariah.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2024
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