Sentence examples for memoir and its from inspiring English sources
This memoir, and its author's continuing life, are beautiful tributes to Raymond Smith.
His career problems were aggravated by addictions to drugs and gambling, which he wrote about frankly in his first memoir and its successor, "Been There, Done That" (1999).
"Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties" is Robert Stone's memoir, and its Manzanillo section is burnished by wisdom, distance and lovely writing.
He concludes his book with a paean to that memoir and its ability to capture "the yearning that theater can inspire, the sense of refuge from an otherwise inhospitable world it can provide".
But no, in that he is illustrating the problems of memoir and its relationship to invented art: they are separate entities and the narrator becomes more and more stuck trying to explain one with the other.
Less than two years later, between Ms. Didion's completion of the memoir and its publication, their daughter and only child, Quintana Roo Dunne Michael, died at age 39 after a series of illnesses.
The commercial fate of David Cromer's unjustly short-lived 2009 Broadway revival of "Brighton Beach Memoirs" (and its aborted companion piece, "Broadway Bound") showed that Mr. Simon's name is no longer the selling point it once was.
That is the substrate of this memoir, and also its ruling metaphor: the image of the death of the family.
His two memoirs – Palimpsest and its sequel, Point To Point Navigation, published in 2006 – describe friendships with Eleanor Roosevelt, Princess Margaret and Leonard Bernstein.
The narrower "I Am America" sticks to ravings suitable for a mock Colbert memoir and further limits its range by avoiding explicit talk of government or politics — though it culminates in a reprint of Mr. Colbert's blistering political speech delivered at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinnerr.
"I have been a Yes person all my life," she wrote in her memoirs, and in its concluding pages she wondered why writers have paid so little attention to friendship.
