To achieve his goal, and fulfill his book contract, Jacobs would read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from cover to cover -- or, at least, claim to have done so -- and then write a memoir containing ostensibly hilarious entries like this: "Greenland.
After being profiled in the documentary film For the Bible Tells Me So (2007), Robinson published a memoir containing his reflections on the controversy over his ordination, In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God, in 2008.
While Tony Blair's rather weird memoir contains a line at the end saying he has always had "a passion bigger than politics, which is religion," that shows only what an oddity Blair was in his own country.
It is a truism, of course, that even the most faithful and exacting memoir contains an element of invention; but jadedness does little to cushion one's surprise upon learning — not from the book itself — that much of Coetzee's self-portrait in "Summertime" is substantially falsified.
Blair's memoir contains a passionate defence of the war in Iraq and of New Labour's public service and welfare reform plans, which the former prime minister believes his successor abandoned.
Ironically, the prizewinning memoir contained a serious mistake, and Poincaré's biggest discovery in the area came when he hastened to put the error right (costing him more in printing expenses than the value of the prize).
Surprising since Terfry has a biology degree and considers himself totally scientific, but the memoir contains multiple references to past lives, telepathy, spirits, psychic phenomena, and unusual occurrences, particularly an encounter with TV mentalist The Amazing Kreskin.
They have denounced Ms. Kim for breaking a promise not to write anything about her experiences and said her memoir contains inaccuracies, notably her portrayal of them as missionaries, which could cause them trouble with the North Korean authorities.
The illustrations show her in a way that in a country where women have to cover themselves from head to toe makes readers blink .I was very surprised because each article of the memoir contains material that would not be allowed anywhere in a whole book," remarks Lili Golestan, a translator of children's books.
That memoir contained things and my shed contained the process of getting them all down.
Both author and publisher acknowledge that this memoir contains numerous fabrications.
