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      What are the most popular memoirs of all time?
      Okay, now let’s get to the books. One of the most popular memoirs of all time is Angela’s Ashes. It’s the story of Frank McCourt’s childhood growing up desperately poor in Ireland. His mother can’t feed the children because his father drinks all his earnings away.

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      What are your favorite memoirs?
      Two favorite memoirs that would’ve made my Top 10 list, let alone Top 50, are “After Long Silence,” by Helen Fremont, and “The Speckled People,” by Hugo Hamilton. @ElinorLipman “Hitch-22”? “Palimpsest”? “A Tale of Love and Darkness”? A list after my own heart. (And the list reminds me that I still need to read Martin Amis’s “Experience.”) @lahoare

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      What makes a good memoir?
      Great memoirs combine the strengths of storytelling, including character development, prose style and dramatic tension that make readers keep reading, with the social context, self-awareness and hard judgment calls that writing about ourselves demands.

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      What is a memoir & why is it important?
      A memoir is the story of a specific time or theme or experience of a person’s life. It’s a deep meditation on something like growing up poor, or having a debilitating mental illness, or living in a racist America. Here, we dig into some of the most influential memoirs of all time.

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      Is a memoir A biography?
      Memoir is a wide-ranging genre. It’s not a biography — the story of a person’s life told by someone else — or an autobiography — a person telling their own life story. A memoir is the story of a specific time or theme or experience of a person’s life.

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      How many unreliable memoirs are there?
      The first three — “Unreliable Memoirs,” “Falling Towards England” and “May Week Was in June” — have been collected into one volume, “Always Unreliable,” and they are especially incisive and comic. In a preface to the first book, James dealt a truth few memoirists will admit: “Most first novels are disguised autobiographies.

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      May 5, 2022 · A memoir is the story of a specific time or theme or experience of a person’s life. It’s a deep meditation on something like growing up poor, or having a debilitating mental illness, or living in a racist America. Here, we dig …

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      The best memoirs of all time, as chosen by our readers

      Aug 11, 2020 · We were inundated with recommendations, encompassing everything from reflections on war, grief, sexuality and religion, to insider accounts of Hollywood life, political conspiracy, even philosophical sporting …

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      The Best Memoirs Ever Written | Famous Nonfiction …

      Oct 25, 2024 · What are the best memoirs of all time? This list of popular memoirs includes literary works of art that provide historical accounts and biographies that were written from personal knowledge of historical accounts.

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      Jun 17, 2024 · Our list of the best memoirs includes first-person insight into someone else’s life, with some of the best by Michelle Obama, Anthony Bourdain, and more.

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