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memoir

1. a biography or historical account, esp one based on personal knowledge

2. an essay or monograph, as on a specialized topic

3. Obsolete a memorandum

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When I told my husband about it, he warned that, if I ever had any plans of writing my own memoir, it had better stand the test of public reading.

A memoir, why not?

com/us-news/shortcuts/2017/mar/01/the-audacity-of-hype-could-obamas-presidential-memoir-be-the-greatest-ever) presidential memoir , which is scheduled to be released next year.

Michelle Obama Teases New Memoir 'Becoming'

Dr Hughes' memoir, written for a student son of a friend in the early 1960s, was donated to Swansea Universitybased Professor John Goodby, the editor of Dylan Thomas' Collected Poems, at the suggestion of the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Swansea-born Rowan Williams.

Doctor's account of Dylan Thomas revealed

June 3-5, 2016, Jay Speyerer will lead "Stories of Your Days Memoir Writing Retreat" at Ligonier Camp & Conference Center in Ligonier, Pennsylvania.

Mia Terra Retreats Announces a Memoir Writing Weekend with "Pittsburgh's Mark Twain"

A Woman's Life: Pauline Wengeroff and Memoirs of a Grandmother

In The Art of Memoir, she imparts her insight as a professor, writer, religious seeker, and former alcoholic and "black belt sinner" for the general reader.

The Art of Memoir

THE fascinating memoirs of a First World War soldier, who accompanied real-life war horses to the frontline, are now available on the web.

War horse soldier's memoirs available to read

The title refers to the bicolored Polish flag, horizontal red and white stripes, and in this memoir the "red" symbolizes Dembowski's life in Poland prior to the war, while the "white" is his later professional and personal life in Canada and the United States.

Memoirs Red and White; Poland, the War, and After

In any case, The Drone Eats With Me, by Atef Abu Saif, is a war memoir for our era and deserves any prize recognition.

Shortlist Announced for 2015 MEMO Palestine Book Awards

Rather than the perennial questioning of who was or was not a "member" of the Bloomsbury Group, the Memoir Club provides a useful alternative means of discerning the shared ethos that has come to be described by the shorthand term "Bloomsbury.

The Bloomsbury Group Memoir Club

Each signing is being promoted solely as a venue for fans to meet Davis and have her sign copies of her memoir.

Amid Campaign, Davis Gearing Up for Promotion of Memoir

Leila Taraboulsi, wife of the deposed Tunisian leader Zine Al Abidine Bin Ali, has published her memoir recently.