Sentence examples for memoir reader from inspiring English sources

I'm not normally an avid memoir reader, but I'm eager to pick up Susan Faludi's In the Darkroom (William Collins), her memoir about her abusive father who undergoes sex reassignment surgery late in life.

Smith knows that when a gossip columnist writes a memoir, readers expect gossip.

But by the last page of Mr. Robison's engaging new memoir, readers may have no problem hailing the author that way.

It's a shame because, for all the hoopla surrounding the latest celebrity memoir, readers are rarely drawn to books by hype machines.

In February, when Patti LuPone announced on her Web site (pattilupone.net) that she was asking her fans to suggest potential titles for her coming memoir, readers of The New York Times's ArtsBeat blog (nytimes.com/artsbeat) were invited to join in the competition, too.

"I felt then, and still do, that readers shouldn't be made aware of editorial interventions," Gottlieb writes in his new memoir, Avid Reader: A Life. "They have a right to feel that what they're reading comes direct from the author to them".

Midway through Slater's most recent memoir, the reader might wonder when the dog with the hefty price tag will make an appearance.

His engrossing memoir takes readers inside the movement and analyzes the impact of social media.

Many of them are about illness, and the rare memoir gives readers a private glimpse of a marriage that's also a creative partnership.

Candor is the signature of the modern memoir, but readers are mostly strangers, and even the most forthright author would think twice before entertaining customers in a bar with Mom's and Pop's deficiencies.

The memoir takes readers from his birth to an unwed teenaged mother in 1952 to his success with Chic and then his reign as a producer and one of the most-sampled musicians of all time.