Example sentences for: memoir

How can you use “memoir” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Kazin's conversational style now closely resembled a memoir in progress--he chatted casually about Harry Levin, the great Joyce scholar at Harvard, and about critic Clifton Fadiman's TV appearances, and about Singer, whom he had recently written about for the New York Review of Books .

  • The story, based on Homer Hickam Jr.'s memoir Rocket Boys , follows a few backwoods kids in the 1950s who use amateur rocketry as a steppingstone to college scholarships and an escape from the coal mines where their fathers work.

  • The pundits chew over the Newsweek excerpts of Edmund Morris' controversial biography, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (buy it here).

  • A piece investigates Binjamin Wilomirski, author of a heart-rending, highly lauded, and completely fake memoir describing the atrocities he (never) suffered as a Jewish child in Nazi death camps.

  • And then there is the vexed question of memoir vs. novel.


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