His Second World War memoir, Slightly Out Of Focus, reveals a man who wore his bravery like blitheness. |
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Unavoidably, given the author's identity, large stretches of My Stroke of Luck stray into predictable showbiz memoir territory. |
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Her professional career spanned literary and theatrical criticism, broadcasting for the BBC, fiction, biography and an uncompleted memoir. |
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In my memoir, I spend a fair amount of time recounting how I spent the first few years of my 12 in the Air Force trying to be one of the boys. |
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Part history, part science, part memoir, the book is a weaving, wandering thing, personal and essayistic. |
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But this memoir is full not of braggadocio, but of self-doubt, as well as wit, humour and passion. |
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This memoir is more about tank columns speeding through the French and German countryside than it is about pitched battles. |
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She was previously the Post's Johannesburg, South Africa correspondent, and published a memoir of her newswoman's African journey. |
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In this well-written, lively, evocative memoir, she has produced a work that is as piquantly entertaining as her rasam recipe. |
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His memoir is a compelling and eye-opening journey through his amazingly rich and full life. |
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How do you adapt George Orwell's famous memoir of the Spanish civil war for the stage? |
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His memoir appeared in Polish in 1946, only to be choked off by Stalinist censors. |
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Even more admirable, though, are his modesty and guilelessness, so evident in this memoir of outstanding lucidity and charm. |
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The memoir displayed depression in a flighty, headstrong, energetic, sexually promiscuous young woman. |
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For a memoir that focuses more on movement herstory, readers might want to try Susan Brownmiller's In Our Time, which has more detail. |
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Robin Morgan makes it clear from the outset that this book is her personal memoir, not a history of the feminist movement. |
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Her memoir offers a mortifyingly credible story of smart young women doing stuporous things. |
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He writes in his memoir that he grew up in a home whose only toilet facilities were in an outhouse. |
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The story is told in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by a highbred horse named Black Beauty. |
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The dog memoir has formed a distinct branch within the canine subgenre of the literary animal story. |
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Now this memoir is very highly regarded but at the time it caused controversy. |
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A devoted churchwoman, James discusses her religious formation and her faith in her recent memoir, Time to Be in Earnest. |
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His pasquinade's origins come from his exploration of what he calls the memoir culture. |
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I just finished writing a graphic memoir about my closeted gay dad and what it was like growing up with him. |
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This narrative is told in the second person in the form of a memoir the writer addresses to herself. |
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His memoir won the prize which in turn was the main reason for his election to the Academy. |
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Richard Sennett's Respect mixes sociology, memoir, and music interestingly, if dissonantly. |
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This memoir is as much about those miraculous rebirths as it is about what is lost. |
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That is certainly the impression one receives from the memoir of Gustave Folcher. |
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Throughout his manias, Berhman obsessively recorded everything he did and he relied on those notes to create this detailed memoir. |
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The story of his own and his mother's survival is recounted in his memoir with stunning visual detail. |
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Part of the problem stems from the book's function as a memoir of the author's personal quest to discover whether her father was a Klansman. |
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His own lost mother makes a cameo appearance in the memoir as a dying woman in Majdanek. |
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In his memoir, Verghese moves deftly between portrayals of himself as outsider and insider. |
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His book is part memoir, part meditation on the processes of reading and writing, and is thoroughly engaging. |
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This intriguing and maddening novel is a curious amalgam of detective mystery, period romance, and fictional memoir. |
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If you want a memoir where you're swept along by verbal deftness and narrative skill, look elsewhere. |
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Hermite had a kind of positive hatred of geometry and once curiously reproached me with having made a geometrical memoir. |
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More than just anecdotage, his meandering memoir evokes an innocent time in New Zealand. |
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That memoir has now become an even more anodyne film, to be released in Britain next week. |
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At any rate, she has elected to retrain as a journalist, and chosen to write a memoir of her playing days as her first book. |
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As the book closes, it becomes transformed into a moving, elegiac memoir for the writer's parents. |
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His memoir talks about how he gave up the life of a photographer in London and lit out for Paris and how I lit out after him. |
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I mean, the book is a very light-hearted memoir of my experience at the agency. |
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Nobody has puzzled longer over the roots of his creativity than Dylan himself and this riveting, poetic memoir is the result. |
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Written as a memoir, the book provides his unparalleled insight into the use and abuse of the power of the atom. |
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I have to admit that when I first eyed the title of Walker's memoir a measurable amount of suspicion lurked in my heart. |
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As the borders between essay and lyricism, journalistic writing and memoir blur, the chances of becoming lost increase. |
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By stressing their autobiographies more than their music, they may lose fans who simply want a good record, not a memoir. |
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The only way someone is ever in a position to write a tell-all memoir is to have been a team player at some earlier point. |
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Jeffrey's memoir is, in the main, a work of numbing tedium, self-indulgent and lacking any sense of irony. |
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What my schematic reading of his memoir fails to indicate adequately is the beautiful luminosity of his descriptive writing. |
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Fourier submitted his 1807 memoir together with additional work on the cooling of infinite solids and terrestrial and radiant heat. |
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The forms of chronicle, fiction, narrative memoir and field study contribute to this text as a novel. |
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This memoir resembles a bedroom farce with the cheerful seducer rushing from tryst to tryst. |
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The central pleasure of a truly satisfying memoir is the narrator's ability to reflect, artfully and persuasively. |
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But you know, I just am not the type of person who is comfortable with writing a memoir centered, as memoirs are, on the self. |
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Kennan wrote a memoir that had enough literary merit to be turned into a play. |
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Tolstoy set out to write a personal memoir of O'Brian, but it turned into a full biography. |
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He moved to Boston as a young man, where his early career is traced in a memoir written shortly after his death. |
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On the insistence of past pupils and their parents, Joan and Joscelyne wrote a short memoir of their life's work. |
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Someone who writes a literary memoir, for example, is by necessity examining issues of self and identity. |
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I am planning to write a memoir of Dr Browne's life and so I ask readers for any personal memories of Martin's work. |
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See, it's mostly about her and it's a memoir of her life when she was a freshman and sophomore in high school. |
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He described how one writer used tarot cards to sequence her memoir about her friendships. |
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To add to his family's distress, his memoir is being serialised in a mass-market, right-wing daily newspaper. |
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Some folks may not want to read another self-absorbed memoir written by a middle-aged Caucasian going through a midlife crisis. |
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I'm afraid that too many reviewers are disappointed when a memoir is not a dishy tell-all, serving up personal, intimate details. |
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I have heard him lecture on malaria, septic shock, the medical significance of tattoos and the art of memoir writing. |
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He plainly confessed it in his autobiography, as did his ex-wife in her rather sympathetic memoir of their years together. |
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Ireland, in short, has no monopoly on the use of memoir, fiction, biography or autobiography as a political tool. |
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Macintosh's memoir was shortlisted for a travel-writing award sponsored by Thomas Cook. |
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It was a thing called The Game Show King, which was mistitled, for a book that was basically a memoir of living in France. |
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It is plausible that this tendency in memoir literature reflects the corrective mode of the middle class through which it tried to vindicate its self-image. |
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Bennett's memoir is full of crucial technical insights into Broadway and Hollywood practice, but by way of instructive anecdote rather than structured discussion. |
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She suggests, more importantly, that public figures like Jonathan Clarke become more comprehensible when connected to domestic and personal memoir and anecdote. |
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In his memoir, total recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger lays it all on the table. |
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In her memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, mantel writes of her own childhood encounters with the paranormal. |
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His mathematical output remained strong and in 1814 he published the memoir on definite integrals that later became the basis of his theory of complex functions. |
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O'Connor's world view, at least as laid out in her memoir, is in fact kind of frightening. |
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It was the title of his bestselling memoir, followed by a sequel, Politics, and even an off-broadway tribute to Hizzonor. |
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Instead, this is a charming memoir of a Caribbean childhood, a celebration of the good things in life, and a gentle dig at a set of values that are long gone and unlamented. |
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You have to be in the Army and standing in a New York City bike lane while writing your memoir. |
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For years, Brooke even had trouble finding a publisher for his memoir, which was ultimately accepted by Rutgers University Press. |
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Harold Evans, author of two histories of America, just published his memoir, My paper chase. |
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And did I mention that his memoir, filled with tales of the women he has bedded, is called Exposing Myself? |
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Now a professor of history at Yale University, and the author of numerous works of religious history, he recently wrote a memoir about his boyhood. |
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The memoir will highlight all facets of Westwood's career, and will include commentary by family and friends. |
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Perhaps he will write a memoir about his experience and tell us how an artist can survive intercontinentally, with all his universal linguistic gifts, tribal and singular. |
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In a Free Stateby V.S. Naipaul A fictionalized memoir by the Man Booker International Prize nominee. |
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In her first memoir, Delia Ephron talks bad hair days, her lack of religion, and losing her big sister Nora. |
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In her memoir, the Texas politico reveals she had two abortions for medical reasons. |
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He ordered a glass of Merlot and I gave him, as a gift, the audio version of my memoir for which I had done the reading. |
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His memoir, in a translation that preserves the author's gorgeous, discursive style and his love of wordplay, is a social history embedded within an autobiography. |
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What more is there to ask Candia McWilliam, someone whose memoir is already forthright to a fault? |
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Twenty years ago, in his beautiful, Proustian memoir, Self-Consciousness, however, he tried to peer forward into the darkness. |
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To someone my age Keith Richards in his memoir Life has a kind of rare healthy post-Empire geezer transparency. |
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This is a memoir of a man lucky enough to get away with actually losing money and lucky enough to get away with indulging a handful of deadly sins. |
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In her recent memoir, the Oscar-winning actress talks about reconnecting with her estranged father, actor Ryan O'Neal. |
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At which point he settles into his late memoir years, graying like King Lear. |
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But She Left Me the Gun morphs into a memoir about the power of escape and reinvention. |
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She also wrote an affectionate memoir of her work with Strauss. |
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Plante's memoir, American Ghosts, is no less powerful and no less stark. |
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The memoir follows Oswalt from 1995 to 1999 as he was starting out on his comedy career in Los Angeles. |
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One remarkable piece appears to be a superhero story, but all the words, including the onomatopoeia, read together as a short memoir of the author's childhood. |
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His memoir, 39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss will be published by grove Atlantic in March. |
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Coddington, the reluctant celebrity, shares the facts of her life in her memoir but she is grudging with emotional revelations. |
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Much of the debate swung around definitions of biography and memoir. |
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This week, a memoir of liberation, a biography of ariel Sharon, and a comprehensive compendium from a master poet. |
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She left the convent in 1997, went back to school, and later wrote a memoir about her experience, An unquenchable Thirst. |
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The film is based on a memoir but contains Polanski's recollections of what it was like to go from a comfortable home to a high-walled ghetto to a series of hidey-holes. |
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Hartmann, author of the new memoir So Far Away, describes how she dealt with this tragic reality. |
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I mean, come on, this is the stuff of heartbreaking and hysterically funny reading, the two main ingredients for any great memoir. |
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Half family memoir, half professional portrait, quirkily written and full of engaging detail, this book is a beguiling contribution to mid-Victorian studies. |
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In 1802 she wrote an admiring letter to Sir W. Scott, who found some merit in her poetry and edited her works in three volumes, with a memoir, in 1810, at her suggestion. |
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When not hobnobbing in Washington, Roussel is working on a career memoir. |
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Much of this was captured in her pacy memoir, By Myself, which, like many, I read when it first came out in the early 1980s, long before I met her. |
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By sharp contrast, the main contenders in the Labour leadership race have slunk away from the Blair memoir and its prescriptions. |
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His second memoir can thus be read as a rather coy critique of his first. |
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Plus, lighter anecdotes from Rumsfeld's memoir, including his unromantic proposal and his take on Hurricane Katrina. |
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In 1922, at the age of seventy-nine, he wrote a brief memoir that was serialized in a Peeksklll newspaper and later issued in a limited-edition pamphlet. |
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As Oscar Wilde observed, the personal memoir, even if written for friends and family alone or to satisfy an importunate publisher, is always delightfully self-obsessed. |
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It won't have been his intention but following his memoir, Experience, The War confirms that his real strength lies not as a fictioneer but as an essayist. |
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Stacey Patton almost invents a new genre in her book of memoir and history, That Mean Old Yesterday. |
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As a result, the voice of the memoir changed and it all congealed into A Mountain of Crumbs. |
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The Duke of Deception By Geoffrey Wolff In his portrait of a con-man father, Wolff writes a memoir of perfect integrity. |
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From a long-awaited sequel to a courtly farce, to a memoir of a childhood spent in the ruins of American aristocracy. |
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Fortunately, the balance was only slightly readjusted this summer with the publication of Ms Satrapi's critically acclaimed memoir of her childhood in Iran. |
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In 1950, Ike bought a Gettysburg farm with some of the proceeds from his World War II memoir. |
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I also think the book contains a dimension of cultural history, and memoir is a great genre in which to explore connections between the personal and the historical. |
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On Face the Nation, the former vice president opened up about his relationship with Bush since his tell-all memoir was released. |
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George W. Bush is back, thumbs in belt loops, striding across the literary world with a new memoir. |
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Equal parts biography, sociology text, and mash note, it is the most complete account yet of his influence on pop music and a fervent memoir of fandom. |
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On November 9, the decider will release his presidential memoir, Decision Points. |
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At a reunion for George W. Bush's administration on February 26, the decider joked about his upcoming memoir. |
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Andrew Grove, the former chief executive of intel, titled his memoir, Only the Paranoid Survive. |
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In her new memoir, Lena Dunham deftly articulates many of the concerns facing women her age. |
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After that, Hawking became closer with Jane and their two children, and then the abridged memoir was released. |
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Nor is his often-riveting new memoir an exercise in nostalgia, apologia, or retread rhetoric. |
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Levine wrote about his life in his 2004 memoir, dharma Punx, the book that started a worldwide movement sharing the same name. |
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Too often, memoir seems to me an excuse to be fragmentary, incomplete, narratively non-rigorous. |
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Just like her memoir, Lee Grant does not disappoint when it comes to candor in an interview with The Daily Beast. |
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She wrote a dishy bestselling memoir that included details about her feud with her mother, Candy. |
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In a gripping new memoir, he describes how he sought to bring William Fox, the scoutmaster who sexually abused him, to justice. |
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They hire other people to write their books for them, whether memoir or fiction. |
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It's a memoir of growing up as the son of an itinerant Arabist foreign service officer. |
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While this book reflects a fascination with how things work, it also is a memoir, replete with subjective, idiosyncratic and deeply nostalgic associations. |
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Anyone keen to learn the secrets of cryptic crosswords will find more than enough clues in this charming memoir, which traces Balfour's own growing fascination with puzzles. |
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Rukeyser was encouraged to write her impressions of Spain in a brief memoir, and to return to her lyric poetry. |
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Pop only skirts around the edges of his young son's life in Dubus' frank, moving memoir, Townie. |
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Kelly's memoir has the most in-your-face and for-real style I've ever read. |
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Mrs Monteith was able to tell her son about their high-born slave ancestor because he had left a memoir. |
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Ten days after Charles's execution, on the day of his interment, a memoir purporting to be written by the king appeared for sale. |
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He received a medal from the Royal Society for his memoir of 1844, On A General Method of Analysis. |
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In 1999, Jane Hawking published a memoir, Music to Move the Stars, describing her marriage to Hawking and its breakdown. |
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The subject lectured on was generally that of the memoir on which the professor was for the time engaged. |
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According to Lewis's memoir Surprised by Joy, he was baptised in the Church of Ireland, but fell away from his faith during adolescence. |
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Watson was attached in 2012 to the role of Emma Forrest in a film adaptation of her memoir Your Voice in My Head. |
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The memoir cost him several friends and exposed him to much public ridicule. |
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From 1938 to 1957 Eliot's public companion was Mary Trevelyan of London University, who wanted to marry him and left a detailed memoir. |
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Carol Hughes announced in January 2013 that she would write a memoir of their marriage. |
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Her memoir gives some insight into the strange environment in which Thomas worked as a young priest. |
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In October 2006, Andy Summers released One Train Later, an autobiographical memoir detailing his early career and time with the band. |
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The only remaining volume was to have contained a memoir of Stewart, but this he did not live to write. |
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His memoir about his life entitled The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. |
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Written in spare, pellucid prose, the book reads like a close-to-the-bone memoir. |
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Sally Morgan's novel My Place was considered a breakthrough memoir in terms of bringing indigenous stories to wider notice. |
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He submitted a memoir to the Naval Ministry which led to his command of the first Russian circumnavigation. |
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His memoir features a child named Tommy Nothing Fancy who suffers from and dies of a seizure disorder. Quite the coincidence, don't you think? |
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Fiennes worked up her notes into a travel memoir in 1702, which she never published, intending it for family reading. |
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Excited about the discovery, when he returned to Cuba in early 1957, he began to shape the recovered work into his memoir A Moveable Feast. |
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The brothers are in regular contact, and McEwan has written a foreword to Sharp's memoir. |
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I was living in Edinburgh at the time and found time to pen a memoir called Adventures of a Waterboy. |
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The Wordsworthian inference that the physical environment was an agent acting upon Lilburn's youthful consciousness runs through the memoir. |
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The memoir of Michael and his alter-ego details the growth of Johnny from inner monologue to full-on Edinburgh Festival sensation. |
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In the Valley of the Yangtze is the memoir of author Helen Roberts Thomas, born on Chinese soil to American Episcopal missionaries. |
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The best that can be said of Franco Zeffirelli's teacosy memoir is that it's not quite as queasy as Life Is Beautiful. |
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Appel has taken this format to record what would ordinarily be classified as a memoir, that is, memories of his life and times. |
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The Wire' star sees this film, based on Mandela's 1994 memoir, as an opportunity to re-educate people on this legend, the Sun reported. |
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Add his evocative, unsentimental new memoir, Elsewhere, to the list. |
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A memoir written in the present tense is like a fish on a skateboard. |
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Mzungu Mjinga by Edgar award winner Rick Boyer is a modern-day safari memoir. |
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Her daughter threatened to publish our emails in a memoir. How she got them is a mystery. She's one of those cyberfreaks. |
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You've probably heard about Confessions of a Video Vixen, part memoir, part name dropping tell-all. |
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Joan Hart spent 46 years as a nurse and has now co-written her memoir, At The Coalface, with journalist and author Veronica Clark. |
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Gross's memoir is also a witness to the French collaborationist Vichy government. |
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Her voice is more akin to twentysomething urbanite chick-lit, rather than a culinary memoir. |
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What made you want to publish a memoir at this stage of your career? |
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His memoir is not the typical tell-all with tales of woe and abuse. |
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Ireland features in his recently published memoir My paper chase. |
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Throughout the memoir she describes food in great detail, whether prepared at a restaurant, at home, or at a lover's home. |
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One day, the porcupine has had enough, and turns to writing a memoir. |
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Her new memoir looks back at her life lived by the principles of punk. |
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That's because this moving and hilarious memoir captures day-to-day military life as experienced by countless young enlistees and their families. |
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The falling, dropping, crumpling that euphemize killing in Fick's memoir threaten to weaken the violence of war as wrote. |
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Now, Cooke is out with a memoir detailing his time with the rocker. |
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Styron's ardent, sophisticated and entirely winning memoir, Reading My Father, is a pointillistic accounting of the drama that brewed throughout her young life. |
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The Biography prize goes to husband and wife, Bryan and Mary Talbot for their graphic memoir about James Joyce's daughter, titled Dotter of her Father's Eyes. |
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Her memoir is interspersed with tasting terms, food pairings and dinner party tips that help pull the reader along on her journey from square one to oenophilia. |
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Besides the personal memoir, it serves also as a review of several major strides in oceanography over the years with which the author was involved. |
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A poignant, suspenseful memoir about the author's search for his suicidal twin brother, who in his late 20s mysteriously disappeared from Manhattan. |
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An episode from Coetzee's memoir Boyhood testifies to the strength and coerciveness of dichotomies imposed by the Cold War and reshaped by the apartheid culture. |
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From the author of the classic mountaineering disaster memoir Touching The Void comes a novel featuring a relationship lethally torn apart on a stormbound mountain. |
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In this memoir, Clark describes his experiences as a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft III and his involvement in planning and implementing escapes from the camp. |
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She Writes Press and Serendipity Literary Agency announced recently that they have joined forces to offer one author a partnership publishing contract for their memoir. |
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Kabul Press' English pages editor, Robert Maier's memoir of working in the low-budget movie industry in New York City was recently published and is available world-wide. |
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Griffin referenced the Panthers and in particular Eldridge Cleaver, the Panther whose lionization by the New Left helped propel his prison memoir book. |
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Despite the inherently bleak nature of so much of this material, Conroy has fashioned a memoir that is vital, largehearted and often raucously funny. |
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My Transportation for Life, Indian freedom fighter Veer Savarkar's memoir of his imprisonment, is set in the British Cellular Jail in the Andaman Islands. |
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The first comprehensive account of the Lewisian complex was published in 1907 as part of the Geological Survey memoir on the structure of the Northwest Highlands. |
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This followed an attempt at rehabilitation in 1879, with the publication of Wollstonecraft's Letters to Imlay, with prefatory memoir by Charles Kegan Paul. |
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Olivier later noted in his memoir, Confessions of an Actor, that. |
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In 1954 Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland published his memoir Son of Oscar Wilde, which recounts the difficulties Wilde's wife and children faced after his imprisonment. |
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Bradford, prompted by comments in Maeve Brennan's memoir, suggests that the poem commemorates Larkin's relationship with Brennan moving from the romantic to the sexual. |
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Greene later wrote an introduction to Philby's 1968 memoir, My Silent War. |
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Less well known is the memoir of Maurice Magnus, Memoirs of the Foreign Legion, in which Lawrence recalls his visit to the monastery of Monte Cassino. |
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The American People is a sloppy, mean-spirited and heavy-handed effort, a confused hybrid of historical fiction, Swiftian satire, memoir and conspiracy theory. |
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The result was a book of adaptations of classical Sanskrit short poems called kavya, ten of which appear here and in In Light of India, a prose memoir. |
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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. |
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