Thesaurus results for MEMOIR

memoir

noun

ˈmem-ˌwär

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 Ahead of her new memoir, Hayden Panettiere is discussing giving up custody of her daughter. —

Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 May 2026 Ayelet Waldman is the author of the best-selling memoir Bad Mother and of the novels Daughter’s Keeper and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. —

The Week Us, TheWeek, 13 May 2026 The memoir also inspired the eponymous 1972 film. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 May 2026 Perry, who had long struggled with addiction and wrote about it in a memoir, illegally obtained the powerful dissociative anesthetic from at least two sources. —

City News Service, Daily News, 13 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for memoir

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The first and third items in this indictment are indisputable; the second is a complicated and qualified matter; and the last two are libels, still part of popular legend no matter how often disproved by serious biography.

— Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
While Italian producers initially pitched him the Colm Tóibín fictional biography of Thomas Mann, the filmmaker rejected making a biopic.

— Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 18 May 2026