British poet and critic Craig Raine, in an essay titled "The Autobiography of Paul Auster", joined the fray, arguing that Auster's memoir, Hand to Mouth, is "poisoned with cliches".
"I was a desperate man, a man with my back against the wall," he wrote in the memoir Hand to Mouth, "and I knew that if I didn't think of something fast, the firing squad was about to fill up my body with bullets".
He recently completed a memoir, "The Hand I Played".
He wrote his memoir by hand after learning English, his fourth language, from his Guantánamo guards and interrogators, and it was published this week after his lawyer, Nancy Hollander, battled for six years to have the document declassified.
That understanding came later and, as Louise recounted in her 2009 memoir No Hand To Hold & No Legs To Dance On, becoming a parent herself in 1988 with her first husband John, crystallised her disbelief at her parents' decision to send her away.
He played the game "with speed and ease," he writes in his memoir, "Gifted Hands".
Mr. Spottiswoode's movie, based on General Dallaire's memoir, "Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda," mechanically recounts events that have been well covered in other films.
Adapted from J R Ackerley's memoir, and hand-drawn in a similarly scratchy style to The Illusionist and Belleville Rendez-Vous, it's an understated cartoon about the mutual devotion of an ageing bachelor and his pet Alsatian.
He expounds it in one volume of his memoirs, "Left Hand, Right Hand!": Since the following anecdote often appears in the press, I had better recount it myself, correctly.
And his admiration for the "potent" Obama election machine is so great he admits buying copies of Democratic campaign manager David Plouffe's memoirs to hand out to his own staff during his successful 2012 Senate race.
Mr. Carson is having to fend off increasing scrutiny about the veracity of various moments in his celebrated life story, which he has shared over the decades in numerous public statements and in books, including his widely read memoir "Gifted Hands".
