Mr. Meyer wrote three books, including a memoir, "Facing Reality," which reflected on his journey from an advocate of world government to his role as spymaster.
Set Me Free followed in 2014, in conjunction with a memoir, Facing the Music: My Story on Howard Books/Simon & Schuster.
Four years later, Knapp is back with an all-new memoir, Facing the Music: My Story, in which she explores her "complicated, complex" journey as a devout Christian who identifies as gay.
Far far from being at the fore-front of the country's fight for independence from the British, Mr. Kenyatta was ensconced in the comfort of the London School of Economics, "living on the generosity of friends... .. while pursuing studies in Anthropology that culminated in his quasi-memoir "Facing Mt. Kenya".
In a similar way, Wilkins in his memoirs faces the task of clarifying his relationships with the spies he befriended.
As the poet Katy Lederer writes in her memoir, "Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers," the key to being a good poker player is managing to "empathize with your opponents while remaining devoid of all compassion".
She had already published a volume of poetry and a memoir, "Poker Face," which describes her coming-of-age in a family of gamblers (her siblings Howard Lederer and Annie Duke are two of the world's best poker players).
In her 2003 memoir, "Poker Face," Duke's younger sister, the poet Katy Lederer, describes Duke's way of talking as "just this side of taunting, a clipped, carousing voice that would carry through a room".
The war is not the focus of Abani's recent memoir The Face: Cartography of the Void, but rather an overarching ghost hovering in the background of Abani's life.
Larson doesn't shy away from naming the difficulties memoir writers face.
