as in biographies
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 memoirs
Patti Smith wrote a new reflection on her life, a follow up to her other wildly popular memoirs, ten years in the making.
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Julia Hass, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
Soyinka’s body of work includes more than 20 plays, as well as essays, memoirs, poetry collections and fiction.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
The memoirs; the second volume is still a work in progress.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
McCurdy and Stoner each end their memoirs proud of having emerged into saner adulthoods.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
The book is on track to be one of the best-selling memoirs of this year.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
A lot of people write memoirs and either don’t think about, or forget, that people are going to read it.
—Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
In one of her memoirs, Keaton wrote about aging and love in Hollywood and becoming a parent late in life.
—Mandalit Del Barco, NPR, 12 Oct. 2025
Seamus Heaney’s sonnets about Northern Ireland in the 1970s and Annie Ernaux’s memoirs of France in the 1960s propose indirect but approachable ways of engaging with personal and national history.
—Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
Julia Hass, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
Soyinka’s body of work includes more than 20 plays, as well as essays, memoirs, poetry collections and fiction.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
The memoirs; the second volume is still a work in progress.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
McCurdy and Stoner each end their memoirs proud of having emerged into saner adulthoods.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
The book is on track to be one of the best-selling memoirs of this year.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
A lot of people write memoirs and either don’t think about, or forget, that people are going to read it.
—Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
In one of her memoirs, Keaton wrote about aging and love in Hollywood and becoming a parent late in life.
—Mandalit Del Barco, NPR, 12 Oct. 2025
Seamus Heaney’s sonnets about Northern Ireland in the 1970s and Annie Ernaux’s memoirs of France in the 1960s propose indirect but approachable ways of engaging with personal and national history.
—Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for memoirs
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Despite varied biographies, top-of-the-ballot Democrats across New Jersey, Virginia and New York City each prevailed in contests before electorates who ranked the economy or cost of living as a top issue, according to exit polls conducted by ABC News.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
5 Nov. 2025
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There have been different depictions of Rosalind in various biographies.—
Deborah Unger,
Scientific American,
5 Nov. 2025
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There are also two unpublished autobiographies by Temple which Tudor is helping the estate get published.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
30 Oct. 2025
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Snow shared that many of her go-to books — primarily nonfiction titles, autobiographies and self-help books — have propelled her through hard moments in her life, including her divorce and her father's Alzheimer's diagnosis.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
2 Oct. 2025
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