Sentence examples for memoir of being from inspiring English sources

It is also a memoir of being taught.

And Ryder's current film - due here in March - is Girl, Interrupted, based on Susanna Kaysen's memoir of being institutionalised for borderline personality disorder in her teens.

There was no such reprieve, though, for Midnight Express (Coliseum, London *), the dansical based on Billy Hayes's memoir of being incarcerated, for dope smuggling, in a sadistic Turkish jail.

MAGAZINE Young and Talented Dave Eggers reaches for the other side of cliche when he titles his memoir of being suddenly orphaned, then bringing up his brother "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius".

Intrinsic to being a baby boomer, as PJ O'Rourke says in his memoir of being one, was to hold your parents' generation, the one that survived the war, in total contempt.

Christiane F, whose memoir of being a teenage heroin addict in West Berlin, We Children of Bahnhof Zoo, inspired a 1981 film by Uli Edel, produced a sequel in 2013, My Second Life, detailing what happened after she found herself famous.

When I finally called to say that 1,457 pages of Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan were on their way, all he said was, "That's great".

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.

"Killing the Black Dog: A Memoir of Depression" is an unusual book.

In its moments of real ambivalence, this loving and funny filial memoir of Bill and Pat Buckley is surprisingly strong drink.

Danya recommends: "A memoir of Robert Capa is not only important for its description of historic events, but also amazingly funny.