This fascinating memoir includes the personal as well as the professional: the death of Shepherd's mother from a heart condition when he was nine, his medical training, his marriage and his experiences of parenthood, not to mention the psychological toll of dealing with death every day and the stresses of giving evidence in court.
Roe left numerous diplomatic memoirs, including the Embassy of Sir T. Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul (1899).
A year ago, the biography shortlist contained three memoirs, including the eventual overall award winner, Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk.
Amazon.com already lists more than 200 Einstein biographies and memoirs, including the superlative 1971 portrait by Ronald Clark.
Further glimpses were afforded by his efforts to squash various memoirs, including the 1972 account, and the auction of letters by Joyce Maynard, telling of their nine-month affair when she was 18 and he was 53.
In addition to her novels, L'Engle is the author of several books of memoirs, including "The Crosswicks Journal," which was published in several volumes and is about her life in Connecticut, and includes the book "Two-Part Invention," which tells the story of her marriage to Hugh Franklin.
Fisher went on to publish four more novels, in addition to her three memoirs (including the darkly titled Wishful Drinking), and several plays and screenplays.
These themes were repeated by Beiderbecke's friends in various memoirs, including The Stardust Road (1946) and Sometimes I Wonder (1965) by Hoagy Carmichael, Really the Blues (1946) by Mezz Mezzrow, and We Called It Music (1947) by Eddie Condon.
Marshall reportedly refused a number of lucrative offers to write his memoirs, including the then-princely sum of a million dollars after taxes from Time and Life publisher Henry Luce.
Sanford published 24 books: nine novels, five genre-defying works he called "creative interpretations of history" and 10 volumes of autobiography and memoirs, including the five-book sequence, "Scenes From the Life of an American Jew". More than half his books were completed after he turned 80.
Topics covered in the memoirs include the effect of technology on how the newspapers were produced, the coverage of important international and national events and the introduction of new lifestyle features.
