For novelists like Anastas, who find their career stalled after a few books, or those like Baxter, who are unable to get a novel published in the first place, the memoir provides a back door into print.
Scholars have failed to appreciate the insights that this travel memoir provides about a group whose voices have been marginalized in historical literature.
His tale, detailed in a new memoir, provides a rare, firsthand look at the often lethal spy war that the rival Koreas waged for decades and that many fear may persist today.
How can you flout the law?" The answer was as good a one-sentence encapsulation of the bodybuilder/entrepreneur/movie star/politician/braggart's philosophy as all of "Total Recall," his 646-page memoir, provides.
Peter Hughes's biography includes a detailed examination of Naipaul's work, while Paul Theroux's gossipy memoir provides a view of Naipaul's character that is entertaining, but obviously jaundiced.
With all that preamble noted – and with a further declaration to readers that I'm currently about three quarters through My Story, not quite to the conclusion – Julia Gillard's memoir provides real, detailed, forensic, and clinical insight into the government from her central, completely unique, vantage point.
The funny female memoir provides an alternative guide to womanhood that's proving a popular alternative to the self-help book.
His memoir provides insight into evil rather than insanity.
Perhaps the sections of memoir provide inadvertent insight into how physicians see such patients.
Fry's memoir provided showbiz anecdotes, vivid tales of adolescent delinquency, and musings on his past addictions to sweets, credit cards, cigarettes, and vintage cars.
