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What is a memoir?

What is a memoir? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author.
  2. 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. Any form of narrative describing the personal experiences of a writer.
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That is certainly the impression one receives from the memoir of Gustave Folcher.
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.
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.
That memoir has now become an even more anodyne film, to be released in Britain next week.
His own lost mother makes a cameo appearance in the memoir as a dying woman in Majdanek.
His book is part memoir, part meditation on the processes of reading and writing, and is thoroughly engaging.

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