as in biographies
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 memoirs
In nonfiction, Slovak has edited memoirs by Elizabeth Gilbert, David Byrne, and Leslie Marmon Silko, and works of natural and cultural history by Robert Macfarlane, David George Haskell, and Rebecca Solnit.
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Paul Slovak
september 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
Also starring Timothée Chalamet, Beautiful Boy is based on a pair of memoirs by father and son David and Nic Sheff.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
For Macdonald, this most eloquent of memoirs emerged from the death of her father, photographer Alisdair MacDonald, aka Ali Mac.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
There are a lot of divorce memoirs.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Sep. 2025
Suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the musical follows her coming-of-age story alongside her demanding stage mother Rose in the 1920s and ’30s.
—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
After enduring a media firestorm, multiple convictions and exonerations, countless interviews and publishing memoirs, Knox is once again sharing her story in Hulu’s The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Based on interviews conducted by journalist Peter Evans, who was engaged in the late 1980s to write Gardner’s memoirs, the play reanimates the combative and complex conversations between the two.
—Rebecca Bihn-Wallace, Vogue, 20 Aug. 2025
But yeah, that was one for the memoirs.
—Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Paul Slovak
september 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
Also starring Timothée Chalamet, Beautiful Boy is based on a pair of memoirs by father and son David and Nic Sheff.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
For Macdonald, this most eloquent of memoirs emerged from the death of her father, photographer Alisdair MacDonald, aka Ali Mac.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
There are a lot of divorce memoirs.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Sep. 2025
Suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the musical follows her coming-of-age story alongside her demanding stage mother Rose in the 1920s and ’30s.
—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
After enduring a media firestorm, multiple convictions and exonerations, countless interviews and publishing memoirs, Knox is once again sharing her story in Hulu’s The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Based on interviews conducted by journalist Peter Evans, who was engaged in the late 1980s to write Gardner’s memoirs, the play reanimates the combative and complex conversations between the two.
—Rebecca Bihn-Wallace, Vogue, 20 Aug. 2025
But yeah, that was one for the memoirs.
—Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for memoirs
Noun
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Throughout his time at the newspapers, Wolfson became a master at writing profiles — more than 50 biographies of lawyers and judges and nearly as many of people who weren’t lawyers, by his estimation.—
Joseph Gerth,
Louisville Courier Journal,
18 Sep. 2025
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Artists of color have long felt pressure to capitalize on the most marginal aspects of their biographies, as white critics (most critics) have remained eager to dismiss those who address race or colonialism in their work as politically correct or identity obsessed.—
Madeline Leung Coleman,
Vulture,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Wrapped in millennial pink while sporting desk plaques reading #girlboss and #bossbabe, she was sold through autobiographies, TED Talks, and Instagram feeds promising that hustle could turn anyone into a CEO.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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That sounds unremarkable now in a landscape of public diaries, memories, and celebrities reading the audiobooks of their autobiographies, but Pepys was something of a groundbreaking force in the genre.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Memoirs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memoirs. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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