William Herrick, author of 10 novels and a memoir, died on Jan . 31at his home in Old Chatham, N.Y.
Hildegard Knef, the actress whose career emerged from the dark realism of German filmmaking that followed Hitler's defeat and then grew to encompass Broadway, recordings and a best-selling memoir, died yesterday in Berlin.
But he lovingly describes how a fatally ill Ulysses S. Grant, desperate to support his family, scrawled out what would become a best-selling memoir, dying four days after correcting the galley proofs.
On Vienna, there is Carl E. Schorske's classic "Fin-de-Siècle Vienna" and Stefan Zweig's "World of Yesterday," as well as lesser-known works like Friedrich Torberg's memoir "Die Tante Jolesch" and George Clare's "Last Waltz in Vienna".
Peter Viertel, a noted author and screenwriter who plumbed his relationships with the aristocracy of Hollywood — starting with Greta Garbo, his mother's best friend — and literary lions like Hemingway to produce provocative works of fiction and memoir, died on Sunday in Marbella, Spain.
The following April, de Gaulle resigned and retired to write his memoir; he died the next year.
A memoir of dying is exceptionally wrenching because we know the end at the beginning, and so meet with an effortful, pulsing person who will soon be neither.
Zhao was placed under house arrest, where he lived for fifteen years, hitting golf balls into a net in his yard and tape-recording a secret memoir; he died in 2005.
If the book has chimed with people around the world, it may well be because it is less a memoir about dying – though it doesn't shirk from either the emotion or the messiness of that – than a template for life.
In the following months, Edwards teamed with other actors and Wallack's wife to help him write his memoir; Wallack died in September.
