The memoir challenged claims that Dolley Madison saved a portrait of George Washington from the 1814 fire.
As publishers of a series of contemporary women's memoirs, we challenge the view that the culture is any more "besieged" by such life stories than by any other literary genre.
It's really by James Frey, the author of the factually challenged memoir "A Million Little Pieces," and Jobie Hughes, a minion hired as part of Frey's latest project: Full Fathom Five, a literary sweatshop modeled on Damien Hirst's art factory and designed to churn out Y.A. material for books, movies and TV.
This narrative seems to appeal to people, but your memoir, Uncovered, fundamentally challenges it.
"I chose as my target the University of Mississippi, which in 1960 was the holiest temple of white supremacy in America, next to the U.S. Capitol and the White House, both of which were under the control of segregationists and their collaborators," Meredith wrote in his 2012 book, A Mission from God: A Memoir and Challenge for America.
A recurring theme throughout her memoir is that her boss was challenging, to say the least.
The subjects of missionary memoirs did not challenge male authority in the public sphere, but they autonomously chose marriage to a missionary as a way to achieve significance, rendering them appealing as role models to pious and ambitious young women.
This accelerated living is challenging stuff for the traditional memoir.
Speaking on Wednesday afternoon at the New York public library's Books at Noon program, Finnegan discussed the challenge of memoir, the technical challenge of describing waves, and Barbarian Days as an attempt to make meaning out of a hobby he has long been reluctant to divulge.
The ripples created by an explosive television report challenging the veracity of "Three Cups of Tea," a bestselling memoir dealing with Afghanistan and Pakistan, have reached Queens.
