as in biography
a history of a person's life
the former senator has a lucrative contract to write his memoirs, in which he will supposedly set the record straight
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Her memoir My Good Side —which includes revelations about her experience with OCD, her husband Brock Davies cheating on her while pregnant, and her own reflections on past relationships—reveals a woman who’s no longer hiding behind party life or tabloid headlines.
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Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 4 Aug. 2025
According to her memoir, My Life in High Heels, her father originally wanted to name her Leilani but worried children would make fun of her.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2025
The memoir will reflect not just on the logistics of her campaign, but on the lessons and emotional weight of those months.
—Oumou Fofana, Essence, 1 Aug. 2025
Atherton Lin’s method, embedding memoir with cultural history, discloses how fickle and self-interested institutional memory can be.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 26 July 2025
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Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 4 Aug. 2025
According to her memoir, My Life in High Heels, her father originally wanted to name her Leilani but worried children would make fun of her.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2025
The memoir will reflect not just on the logistics of her campaign, but on the lessons and emotional weight of those months.
—Oumou Fofana, Essence, 1 Aug. 2025
Atherton Lin’s method, embedding memoir with cultural history, discloses how fickle and self-interested institutional memory can be.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 26 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for memoir
Noun
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Anyone who ever wants to write my biography will have his/her work cut out for her/him, since virtually no documentation or juvenilia exist.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2025
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But a new biography on Andrew and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, titled Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, has not only brought his behavior back into the conversation, but revealed a lot of sordid details people didn’t know.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The poem is a spiritual autobiography, a depiction of ecosystems, and a series of snapshots, all of which reflect one another.—
Dennis McNally,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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In 1995, Anderson released her autobiography My Life in Heels, which detailed her relationship with Reynolds and her struggles to keep her family together.—
Stephanie Wenger,
People.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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“Memoir.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memoir. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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