Thesaurus results for MEMOIR

memoir

noun

ˈmem-ˌwär

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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Recent Examples of memoir This week Jill Biden released View From the East Wing, a memoir that documents her four years as first lady in intimate detail. —

Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 4 June 2026 Jill Biden has written a new memoir about her time as first lady titled View From the East Wing, and there has been a lot of discourse about the revelations in the book. —

Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 4 June 2026 The announcement of Stratton's memoir also comes a little over a week before the release of Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day, which follows a fictional whistleblower (Josh O'Connor) who attempts to expose the truth about a complex cover-up of alien life on Earth. —

Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 3 June 2026 One saw his entire family killed in a concentration camp and then wrote a memoir documenting his darkest moments. —

Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 3 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for memoir

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Noun

Writer, reader, and protagonists become involved in a common pursuit of the kind celebrated by Richard Holmes in his writing about biography.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
And since Platner is a novice candidate, his biography is his main selling point.

— Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 1 June 2026