In her last decade Ms. Figes focused on memoir writing, seeming intent on coming to terms with her traumatic youth.
"Living History," published during her first term in the U.S. Senate, is an evasive, soft-focus memoir.
The 266-page soft-focus memoir, party guide and design essay offers glimpses into the lives and (unidentified) homes of David Geffen, Eli and Edye Broad, Barbara Walters and Bill Blass, to name a few of Ms. Tarlow's boldface clients and friends.
An autobiography, Focus: Memoirs of a Life in Photography, was issued the year of his death.
If not that, how about a memoir focused on my days at Attica state prison?
She read an essay I wrote about the difficulties my husband and I had raising our daughter who was adopted from Russia, and knew I had a memoir focused on adoption and attachment disorder coming out next year.
His last decade has involved a fair amount of retrospection: a symphonic album and tour, drawing widely from his catalog; a memoir focused on those Newcastle years; a musical now in the works, with a similar scope; even a huge reunion tour for the Police.
Unlike James Frey's problems, those faced by most writers of memoir are focused on how far they can allow themselves to stray from actual facts.
Now Mr. Blanco, who is also at work on a memoir, is focused on an entirely new and, colleagues say, exceedingly difficult endeavor: composing what is known in his trade as an "occasional poem," written to commemorate a specific event.
