Words similar to memoir
Example sentences for: memoir
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Arriving as it does on the tail end of the Paula Jones disaster, Frances K. Conley's memoir of sexism at Stanford may encounter a kind of sexual-conflict fatigue and miss the attention it deserves.
A Memoir
Journalist Christopher Dickey's combination memoir and biography of his poet and novelist ( Deliverance ) father, James Dickey, is praised as a "loving, ruthless portrait" (Lance Morrow, Time ). Although he cleaned up his act a couple of years before dying, Dickey Sr. spent much of his life boozing, telling self-aggrandizing tall tales, and openly cheating on his wife.
Luis Rodriguez has written a wonderful memoir, dedicated to his son, that depicts the crazy life he led in Los Angeles in the 1970s.
Kincaid's memoir of her impoverished childhood in Antigua, occasioned by the death of her half-brother from AIDS.