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memoir

noun

ˈmem-ˌwär

Definition of memoir

as in biography

a history of a person's life the former senator has a lucrative contract to write his memoirs, in which he will supposedly set the record straight

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Recent Examples of memoir Kate Gosselin appears to be weighing in after the release of her son Collin Gosselin's memoir. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 Her Pulitzer Prize-winning 2025 memoir, Things in Nature Merely Grow, chronicled the loss of her sons and her effort to go on. — Terry Gross, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026 Much of the two-week trial hinged on Davis’ own accounts of the killing in media and in a memoir, which prosecutors said was precipitated by a scuffle between Davis’ nephew and Shakur on the night of his death. — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2026 Fresh off of his memoir Roll The Calls hitting The New York Times best seller list, WME executive chairman and TKO CEO Ari Emanuel is returning to his podcast. — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for memoir

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One of the many clever strokes in Andrew O’Hagan’s 2024 novel Caledonian Road was casting his floundering, public intellectual hero as the author of a best-selling biography of Johannes Vermeer.

— Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026
The Boundless Biddy Mason is simultaneously the biography of an individual, of a community, and of a city in its formative years.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

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His autobiography is unquestionably one of the most vivid and engaging portraits of everyday life in the Ghetto at its peak—and this is a brilliant edition.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
This is the generous autobiography of the greatest editor of his time.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 13 Oct. 2026

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