Sentence examples for straight memoir from inspiring English sources

Did you ever consider writing a straight memoir rather than a family history?

It is tempting, at first, to consider the stories autobiographical, if not straight memoir.

"The first words out of Mike's mouth were, 'I don't want to do a straight memoir,' " said Mr. Janklow, of Janklow & Nesbit.

Frame writes with an immediacy and an authenticity that I suppose is partly responsible for the fact that some people have mistaken her fiction for straight memoir.

Simply as a straight memoir – that is, if she had never become famous – I think this would function as a critical but sensitive portrait of an idiosyncratic but intensely appealing character.

The Samuel Johnson has never before been won by a straight memoir, but this year six out of the 15 longlisted books are personal stories, with John Carey making the cut for The Unexpected Professor, the esteemed critic's account of his life in books, and Henry Marsh for Do No Harm, about his life as a neurosurgeon.

Some are straight memoirs, some are less conventional in form, some are broader in scope, but all are rich and satisfying.  .

The book, "To Set the Record Straight," a memoir published in 1979, was a best seller.

Perhaps things had changed back home but his life was overseas and his 1996 book Not Quite Straight: A Memoir amply illustrated his ambivalent attitude to his homeland.

My book, Can't Think Straight: A Memoir of Mixed-Up Love, is on sale now.

Her book, Can't Think Straight: A Memoir of Mixed-Up Love, will be published in on Dec. 28.