Sentence examples for memoir should be from inspiring English sources

At least one such memoir should be required reading for every medical professional.

"Bastard Tongues" is gossipy, vain and pugilistic — in other words, all the juicy things an academic memoir should be but too rarely is.

Whatever Mr. Allen's faults, he has made an undeniably important contribution to American culture, and his work, not to mention his personal life, is compelling enough that his memoir should be treated as one of great value.

The childhood misery memoir should be titled Daddy, No, or Daddy, Why Won't Mummy Get Up, or Not Tonight, Daddy, I Have A Headache, or Daddy, Why Are You Strapping Me To A Barrel Of Gelignite And Then Running Back Behind That Small Cluster Of Buildings In The Near Distance.

"Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard," he says.

Most of all, his is a memoir that should be given to high school and college students of a literary bent.

Ordinarily with memoirs, that should be enough.

Mr. Graffman, in his memoir, "I Really Should Be Practicing," wrote, "Piero's musicological knowledge was far greater than mine, and covered much more than just piano literature".

He is a Holocaust survivor who fought as a partisan in the forests of Eastern Europe (his memoir should not be confused with "Defiance," a movie based on a similar story).

Ms. Altschul's memoir (which, potential readers should be warned, could benefit from a vigorous editorial scrubbing) is printed by Kinko's and sold online for $19.95 plus shipping at www.assortedsnakes.com.

If Lord Owen ever writes his memoirs, the period from 1982 to 1987 should be entitled "The Fractious Years".