Sentence examples for memoir we used from inspiring English sources

By Andrea Walker July 16, 2009 If you occasionally experience, as I do, a bizarre fascination with Wasp rituals, I recommend the former debutante-turned-California-prison-activist-turned-journalist-and-author Eve Pell's memoir "We Used To Own the Bronx," about her time growing up as a member of the "American aristocracy".

If you occasionally experience, as I do, a bizarre fascination with Wasp rituals, I recommend the former debutante-turned-California-prison-activist-turned-journalist-and-author Eve Pell's memoir "We Used To Own the Bronx," about her time growing up as a member of the "American aristocracy".

Stephen K Amos's memoir, I Used To Say My Mother Was Shirley Bassey, is out now.

She is currently working on the memoir The Year We Ate Half a Cow (excerpt of this memoir used on NPR).

Nigel Slater's memoir used the word as a title to suggest the pleasant aspects of childhood.

Students of memoir used the text to showcase the vagaries of personal narrative; sociologists looked for a relation between the literary work and the cultural setting from which it arose.

According to The Guardian report, Mr. Assange, left, had expressed concern that the memoir could be used against him by prosecutors in the United States.

Having learned from Frieda Lawrence's memoir that Mansfield used Cuticura soap, for example, Hampl was "thrilled" to find she could buy and use it herself, identifying it as "a relic".

Now he's being tarred as a plagiarist because some passages in his 2001 novel Atonement struck a couple of gadfly readers as too similar to parts of a memoir that McEwan used during his research.

Some emphasize Wollstonecraft's fusion of the travelogue with the autobiography or memoir (a word used by Wollstonecraft in the book's advertisement), while others see it as a travelogue cum epistolary novel.

We are used to memoirs that read like bad novels, following certain familiar arcs.