Making his way to Nuremberg in 1937, his memoirs report, he witnessed the Führer walking to the podium, "his shoulder brushing mine as he went past".
In contrast, Nimoy and Shatner's memoirs report that after the screening he called his lawyer and demanded a quarter of the scenes be cut; the producers refused, and within 48 hours he was dead.
He has read every diary, letter, memoir, report card and dossier, attended every late supper, masked ball and febrile seduction, counted every "dead soul" serf whom Pushkin inherited as property and every "free peasant" he "mortgaged" to pay his brother's debts, and exhumed every body of every Decembrist the poet might have met at school before they plotted their abortive coup without him.
You may also find yourself wanting to know more about the man whose "abundance of storyteller's gifts," as Wood puts it, bends genres to create a kind of memoir-reporting-literature hybrid.
Venture's memoir reports that he earned his freedom by "cleaning gentlemen's shoes and drawboots, by catching muskrats and minks, raising potatoes and carrots, etc., and by fishing in the night at odd spells".
"Reagan didn't seem to know who I was," she would later write in her 2000 memoir Reporting Live.
In an obituary of Walter Cronkite on Page A1 July 18, The Associated Press, relying on published accounts that included Cronkite's memoir, reported erroneously that "cronkiter" was used in Sweden and the Netherlands as a term for "TV anchorman".
In his memoirs he reports that the post functioned through the use of empty electrical socket boxes.
In her memoirs, she reported that her meeting with Nightingale was friendly, with Nightingale asking "What do you want, Mrs. Seacole?
The term "Robinson" for the hideaways appeared almost immediately, and was popularized in many contemporary and later works, including memoirs, newspaper reports and films, by both the Robinsons themselves as well as other writers.
This double issue of The New Yorker is a mixture of memoir and reporting about families; a prior family issue, just over a year ago, was mostly fiction.
