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

Kimmel noted that Kirk had appeared on the show 19 years earlier to promote one of his many memoirs. — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026

Things ranging from how-tos to memoirs to niche academic texts. — Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026

By the 2010s, celebrities like Tina Fey, Betty White, Amy Schumer, and Carrie Fisher were recording their memoirs in full (and earning Grammy nominations for their efforts). — Brian Raftery, Vanity Fair, 6 Oct. 2026

Cooper took the others’ perspectives into account (Bruce and Dunaway have both published their own memoirs) for Devil On My Shoulder as well. — Gary Graff, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2026

For his part, Khrushchev readily admitted to such behavior in his memoirs, likening his noisy antics to those of revolutionary protesters in the Duma, an imperial Russian legislative body. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Oct. 2026

But fiction and memoirs focusing on gender identity and LGBTQ+ issues have increasingly become targets of censorship, abetted by right-wing parental rights groups like Moms for Liberty. — Susan Farrell, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2026

Unlike many memoirs, Material Evidence will not follow a chronological format. — Mariel Turner, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026

Its key discovery is a collection of cassette recordings Rabal recorded his memoirs on. — Callum McLennan, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026