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• His memoirs were his posthumous revenge on enemies he dared not take on alive.From the entry posthumous
• The statesman's tell-all memoirs were not published until long after death.From the entry tell-all
• Now that he's entering his twilight years, he's writing his memoirs.From the entry twilight years
• Kelly's memoir has the most in-your-face and for-real style I've ever read.From the entry for-real
• He wrote a memoir about his years in captivity.From the entry captivity
• “Chandler Bing,” wrote Matthew Perry in his puckish, self-mocking memoir, “changed the way that America spoke”.2023 October 29, Zoe Williams, “‘An ironic, self-deprecating metrosexual’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age”, in The…. From the entry puckish
• Popular contemporary cousins include six-word memoirs, twiction, and the blog-born listicle.2018 04, Kim Adrian, The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN. From the entry twiction
• Work was therapy; by the time the memoirs were published he had recovered his self-confidence.2015, Martin van Creveld, Moshe Dayan, →ISBN. From the entry bit between one's teeth
• Graphic memoirs or “autographics” are a growing focus of current scholarship.2014, Lan Dong, Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives, →ISBN. From the entry autographics
• The film, along with a memoir that is still in its early stages — Mr.2008 May 11, Tim Arango, “Mike Tyson Film Takes a Swing at His Old Image”, in New York Times. From the entry postboxing
• Lopukhov wrote a number of books and articles on ballet theory, as well as his memoirs.1998, Elizabeth Souritz, The Great History of Russian Ballet. From the entry theory
• Written in spare, pellucid prose, the book reads like a close-to-the-bone memoir.1994 November 13, Fritz Lanham, The Houston Chronicle, Houston, Tex.: Houston Chronicle Pub. Co., →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry pellucid
• Secondly, I though my memoirs could have a moral, didactic importance.1977, Romanian books, page 36. From the entry memorist
• Sherman’s memoirs, as literature far superior to Grant’s, create an unforgettable autoportrait of this brilliant, angry, ruthless warrior.2015 July 23, “William T. Vollmann: By the Book”, in New York Times. From the entry autoportrait
• Preciado's creative narrative introduces us to a different kind of book: part memoir (what Preciado classifies as 'autotheory'), part queer theory.2015, Karmele Mendoza Perez, “Book Reviews: Testo junkie: sex, drugs, and biopolitics in the pharmacopornographic era”, in Nordic Journal…. From the entry autotheory
• Mrs Monteith was able to tell her son about their high-born slave ancestor because he had left a memoir.2007 March 9, “Travelling to his African home”, in Church Times, number 7513, UK. From the entry highborn
• His memoir features a child named Tommy Nothing Fancy who suffers from and dies of a seizure disorder.2006 February 6, Sherman Alexie, “When the story stolen is your own”, in Time. From the entry quite
• There was only a one-week frenzy window between Gippermania and the pending Clinton memoir, and Weinstein flew right through it.2004 June 17, Tina Brown, “Democrats Warm To 'Fahrenheit 9/11'”, in The Washington Post. From the entry Gippermania
• The quality-control department has left the building and anyone with a halfdecent memory of a half-remembered match is out there publishing his memoirs.2012, Fred Eyre, Kicked into Touch: Plus Extra Time, Random House, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry has left the building
• Geri Jewell, who played Blair Warner's cousin Geri for a few seasons, has fully come out as a labia-loving lesbian in her new memoir!!!2011 January 26, tootie, “More labia-loving lesbos cumin' out in Hollywood”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet). From the entry gayelle
• For all this, the worn collodion image gracing his memoirs shows a man of estimable appearance in a sober woolen suit and brocade waistcoat.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Profitable Wonders”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 52. From the entry collodion
• Some interesting details of Sturrock's subsequent career are contained in his unpublished memoirs, compiled long after his retirement from the railway service.1948 January and February, “Memoirs of Archibald Sturrock”, in Railway Magazine, page 47. From the entry unpublished
• Bythell’s misanthropic memoir, “The Diary of a Bookseller,” covers one year in the life of the Bookshop, his used-bookstore in a drafty, leaky stone house in Wigtown, Scotland.2018 August 26, Laurie Hertzel, “The curmudgeon of Wigtown”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXVII, number 144, page E12. From the entry used-bookstore
• In an earlier memoir, “Five-Finger Discount,” Stapinski recreated the terrifying world of swindlers, embezzlers, burglars and mobster wannabes who made up her extended Jersey City family.2017 June 23, Max Byrd, “A Trip to Southern Italy to Shed Light on a Family Scandal”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on…. From the entry burglar
• The memoir is an epic narrative of a Tambrahm family, the contradictions and challenges of people who have been a powerful force and presence for over a century.2016 December 24, Antara Datta, “A Tamil maiden’s time travel tale”, in The New Indian Express. From the entry TamBrahm
• Short, balding, perennially sucking on his pipe, with a constant twinkle in his eye, Lissitzky comes across in memoirs as the Bilbo Baggins of his kind.2015, Jed Rasula, Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century, Basic Books, page 229. From the entry Bilbo Baggins
• In his studio in the Behlendorf woods, near the Baltic city of Lübeck, Günter Grass reflects on the outcry over his fictive memoir Peeling the Onion.2010 October 30, Maya Jaggi, “(please specify the article title)”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News &…. From the entry of
• Some may think this disingenuous as, in choosing to frame a novel as a memoir, Coetzee reveals himself as a supreme deformer of his chosen medium.2009 September 8, Claire Armitstead, “Odds on: the Booker's favourites”, in Guardian. From the entry deformer
• One answer lies in a less well-known but equally important countertradition, the dyslogistic school of memoir written by former officials who present themselves as disillusioned innocents.2008 June 22, Jacob Heilbrunn, “‘Not My Fault’”, in New York Times. From the entry countertradition
• Hare must take his share of the responsibility for the theatrical nonevent that was “The Year of Magical Thinking,” the uninvolving stage adaptation of Joan Didion’s memoir.2007 June 3, Charles Isherwood, “Imported Doesn’t Always Mean Important”, in New York Times. From the entry uninvolving
• By the bed there was a bookcase with old French novels, left-behind Frederick Forsyths, odd leather-bound volumes of history and memoirs with the coroneted Kessler bookplate.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry bookplate
• The recent development of a distinct subgenre of autobiography, the culinary memoir, is another indication that women’s food-writing is increasingly perceived and cast within more formal, literary conventions.2003, Tamar Heller, Patricia Moran, “Introduction: Scenes of the Apple: Appetite, Desire, Writing”, in Tamar Heller, Patricia Moran…. From the entry food-writing
• The early period of glasnost' encouraged a variety of graphomania and logorrhea—from numerous letters to the newspapers to memoirs, "true stories," opinions, and revelations of wide political range.1994, Svetlana Boym, “Glasnost’, Graphomania, and Popular Culture”, in Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia, Cambridge…. From the entry logorrhea
• Vodicka's reception history is an empirical study of the post-genesis fortunes of literary works as attested in recorded concretizations (diaries, memoirs, letters, critical reviews, and essays).1993, Lubomír Doležel, "Semiotic Poetics of the Prague School," in Irene Rima Makaryk (ed.) Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory…. From the entry concretization
• The law notwithstanding, memoirs show the atmosphere of the French court of the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries to have been irreligious, with male homosexuality and tribady open and well-represented.1988, David F Greenberg, The Construction of Homosexuality, Chicago, published 1990, page 315. From the entry tribady
• The best hope has been that friends and family would talk, a hope partly realized in this discreet but perceptive memoir by his illegitimate daughter. . . .1971 August 2, Brad Darrach, “Knee-High to Ezra Pound”, in Time. From the entry by-blow
• Philip Yancey, the author, most recently, of the memoir “Where the Light Fell,” said that “the aspect of Jesus’ style that stands out to me is how unpropagandistic he was.2021 December 23, Peter Wehner, “Why Jesus Never Stopped Asking Questions”, in The New York Times. From the entry arm-twister
• Lee starts her memoir with a recollection of hiking with her mother shortly after Gong, the author’s grandfather, has passed away, and the narrative veers into a discussion of translation.2020 April 24, Kristen Schott, “The Language of Self-Discovery: On Jessica J. Lee’s “Two Trees Make a Forest””, in Los Angeles Review of…. From the entry Wade-Giles

Meaning of memoir

1. noun An autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author.
2. noun A biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject.
3. noun Any form of narrative describing the personal experiences of a writer.

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Questions about memoir in a sentence

How do you use memoir in a sentence?

Memoir is used as a noun. For example: “When I retire, I'm going to write my memoirs.”

What is a short sentence with memoir?

“He wrote a memoir about his years in captivity.”

What does memoir mean?

Memoir means an autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author.