Synonyms of memoirs

memoirs

noun

plural of memoir

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• biographies
• autobiographies
• bios
• lives
• histories
• hagiographies
• obituaries
• psychobiographies
• chronicles
• pasts
• profiles
• stories
• tell-alls
• pathographies
• character sketches

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of memoirs

The memoirs were a stupendous best-seller, 10,000 door-to-door canvassers selling 325,000 two-volume sets in 1886, earning the general’s widow and children as much as $15 million in today’s dollars. — Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2026

As well as essays or memoirs, students will also be able to create a podcast or a film as part of an assignment, using a different set of skills. — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 19 Aug. 2026

Two accounts illuminate this way of being – the memoirs of a Hindu soldier, born in a small village, and those of an elite Muslim poet from Delhi. — Aishwarya Lakshmi, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026

These elucidations are not only fascinating, but wholly original as far as rock star memoirs go. — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 30 July 2026

Recent political memoirs by JD Vance, Andy Beshear, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Raphael Warnock focus on God, morality, and religion. — Sophie Hills, Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2026

Remember all those fake memoirs from the early 2000s, by all those writers pretending to be addicts and gangsters and Holocaust survivors? — James Parker, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

Bourdain published a number of books in his lifetime, including three novels on top of various memoirs related to his life and work in the culinary industry. — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026

Published in October 2023, The Woman in Me became one of the fastest-selling celebrity memoirs ever, chronicling Spears’ rise to pop superstardom, the conservatorship that controlled much of her adult life and her eventual return to independence. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 7 July 2026