A memoir (from French: mémoire: memoria, meaning memory, or reminiscence), is a literary genre, forming a subclass of autobiography – although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are almost interchangeable. Memoir is autobiographical writing, but not all autobiographical writing follows the criteria for memoir set out below. The author of a memoir may be referred to as a memoirist.
Memoirs are structured differently from formal autobiographies...
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Books In This Genre:
- Now It's My Turn ,
- I Was Sent to Athens ,
- Farewell to Manzanar ,
- Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival ,
- Quicksands: A Memoir ,
- See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism ,
- Defying Hitler: A Memoir ,
- The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir ,
- A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember ,
- Still Woman Enough: A Memoir
