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
Netflix took the rights to the memoir this week in a heated six-way auction, sources tell Variety.
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Matt Donnelly, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
Knight wrote his memoir while serving a 28-year prison sentence for voluntary manslaughter, stemming from the January 2015 death of Terry Carter, whom Knight mowed down with his car.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2026
Rivera and his co-defendant, political consultant Esther Nuhfer, are among a small number of friends and family Rubio thanks in the acknowledgment section of his memoir.
—Joshua Goodman, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
Your memoir is incredibly powerful.
—Jessica Firger, SELF, 23 Mar. 2026
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Matt Donnelly, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
Knight wrote his memoir while serving a 28-year prison sentence for voluntary manslaughter, stemming from the January 2015 death of Terry Carter, whom Knight mowed down with his car.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2026
Rivera and his co-defendant, political consultant Esther Nuhfer, are among a small number of friends and family Rubio thanks in the acknowledgment section of his memoir.
—Joshua Goodman, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
Your memoir is incredibly powerful.
—Jessica Firger, SELF, 23 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for memoir
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Writer Hugo Vickers writes in the upcoming biography Queen Elizabeth II that Philip underwent heart surgery on March 1, 2021, shortly before his death and almost did not make it.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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With that element a strong part of her biography, Lilly was interested in sponsoring the event after the producer, Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions, reached out.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
29 Mar. 2026
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His father was a shopkeeper, and the family was not wealthy, Ghalibaf wrote in a lengthy autobiography on his official website.—
Babak Dehghanpisheh,
NBC news,
27 Mar. 2026
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When women came to write spiritual texts—autobiographies, meditations, letters—their own bodies provided an imagery to describe the contours of their belief.—
Chandler Fritz,
The New York Review of Books,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Memoir.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memoir. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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