An interesting memoir of Abdallatif, written by himself, has been preserved with additions by Ibn Abu-Osaiba ( Ibn Abi Usaibia ), a contemporary.

Told largely in the form of a first-person memoir, it concerns the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem by Nehemiah, a Jew who is a high official at the Persian court, and the dedication of the city and its people to God's laws ( Torah ).

The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as " Checagou " was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir written about the time.

The voices of Cleese, Gilliam, Jones, and Palin will be spliced into commentary recorded by Chapman reading from his memoir and taped shortly before his death.

Additionally, Ted Sorensen claimed in his memoir Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History ( 2008 ) to have had a hand in the speech, and said he had incorrectly inserted the word ein, incorrectly taking responsibility for the " jelly doughnut misconception ", below, a claim apparently supported by Berlin mayor Willy Brandt but dismissed by later scholars since the final typed version, which does not contain the words, is the last one Sorensen could have worked on.

In fact, his father was so incensed by his departure that, as Severn reported in a late memoir, " in his insane rage he struck me a blow which fell me to the ground.

There is also a brief memoir by Karl Goedeke in Göttinger Professoren ( Gotha ( Perthes ), 1872 ).

* For Martin Greenberg's Fantastic Lives: Autobiographical Essays by Notable Science Fiction Writers ( Southern Illinois University Press, 1981 ) she wrote " The Expanding Mind ," a memoir of her youth and the impact of science fiction on the mind of a young girl.

In 2008, Dunst starred alongside Simon Pegg in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, an adaptation of the memoir of the same name by former Vanity Fair contributing editor Toby Young.

In October 2008, a memoir by Kim " Howard " Johnson entitled Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday: My Life with Brian was released.

Gavin Lambert's memoir, Mainly About Lindsay Anderson, in which he claimed that Anderson repressed his homosexuality, was seen as a betrayal by his other friends.

The theory of errors may be traced back to Roger Cotes's Opera Miscellanea ( posthumous, 1722 ), but a memoir prepared by Thomas Simpson in 1755 ( printed 1756 ) first applied the theory to the discussion of errors of observation.

Allen's memoir Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft was released on April 19, 2011.

His memoir, Just One More Thing ( ISBN 978-0786717958 ) was published by Carroll & Graf on August 23, 2006.

In planning for a possible influenza pandemic the WHO published a document on pandemic preparedness guidance in 1999, revised in 2005 and in February 2009, defining phases and appropriate actions for each phase in an aide memoir entitled WHO pandemic phase descriptions and main actions by phase.

The Australian author Geraldine Brooks wrote a memoir entitled Foreign Correspondence ( 1997 ) about her childhood, which was enriched by her exchanges of letters with other children in Australia and overseas and her travels as an adult in search of the people they had become.

* Patrimony: A True Story, a 1991 non-fiction memoir by American novelist Philip Roth

Homer Hickam's memoir Rocket Boys and the movie October Sky tell the story of how a coal miner's son, inspired by Sputnik, started building rockets in the mining town where he lived.

* Homer Hickam's classic memoir Rocket Boys and the film October Sky tell how a coal miner's son was so inspired by Sputnik, he began to build rockets to the surprise and consternation of his hometown.

The memoir was adapted and produced as a TV movie, Solomon Northup's Odyssey ( 1984 ), directed by Gordon Parks.

In 1984, a made-for-TV movie, based on Northup's memoir, was directed by Gordon Parks.

* In June 2012 started the filming of Twelve Years a Slave ( film ), directed by British director Steve McQueen who also co-wrote the script with John Ridley to adapt Northup's memoir book.

His son, Raymond Bernard became an influential French filmmaker ( using as scripts a number of works authored by his father ) while his son Jean-Jacques Bernard published a memoir of his father in 1955 titled Mon père Tristan Bernard ( My Father, Tristan Bernard ).

Heda Margolius Kovály also ends her memoir Under a Cruel Star with a first hand account of the Prague Spring and the subsequent invasion, and her reflections upon these events.

The original core of the book, the first-person memoir, may have been combined with the core of the Book of Ezra around 400 BC.

Although Love said she would " never write a book ", she did publish a memoir in 2006 titled Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love.

Harold Evans used the memoir as a source for a chapter about Kildall in the 2004 book They Made America, concluding that Microsoft had robbed Kildall of his inventions.

The scholar Kenneth M. Stampp referred to Northup's memoir in his book on slavery, The Peculiar Institution ( 1962 ).

Along with Last Train from Berlin, he wrote three other books, The Population Explosion ( 1960 ), the children's book Washington, D. C .: The Story of our Nation's Capital ( 1967 ), and a memoir Events Leading Up to My Death: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Reporter ( 1996 ).

Wallace went on to publish several novels and biographies, plus his memoir ; but Ben-Hur was his most important book.

The book is a memoir of Maureen Johnson Smith Long, mother, lover, and eventual wife of Lazarus Long.

In her second memoir, This ' N That ( 1987 ), Davis wrote, " I am still recovering from the fact that a child of mine would write about me behind my back, to say nothing about the kind of book it is.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King, published in 2000, is a memoir of the prolific author's experiences as a writer, and also serves as a guide book for those who choose to enter the craft.

When the first book, Flashman, was published in the United States, ten of 34 reviews took it to be an obscure but real memoir.

The book is much less a Davis memoir than an articulation of the secession argument.

In 2008 sister congresswomen Loretta Sanchez and Linda Sanchez published the joint memoir Dream in Color: How the Sanchez Sisters Are Making History in Congress. Publishers Weekly reviewed the book and wrote: " Linda and Loretta Sanchez present their compelling story — noteworthy not only for their history-making achievements ( including first sisters or women of any relation to serve together in Congress, first woman and person of color to represent a district in Orange County, first Latina on the House Judiciary Committee and first Head Start child to be elected to Congress ) but also for its “ American Dream ” aspect — their parents immigrated from Mexico and despite lacking a formal education managed to send their seven children to college.

Interweaving childhood vignettes with accounts of serving in Congress, both from California, this refreshing book evades many of the tropes of the typical political memoir — perhaps because these two women are not typical politicians.

Reception of the book was overwhelmingly positive an the memoir debuted at number one on the New York Times Best Seller's List

He has since written about his bitterness regarding how the book was marketed, believing it was pitched as a Star Trek book when he intended it as more of a personal memoir.

Witherspoon is also set to jointly star in and produce a number of movies under her Pacific Standard banner, including the comedy-drama Rule # 1, a film based on Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild, an adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, a film version of upcoming children's book series Pennyroyal's Princess Boot Camp, the raunchy comedy Who Invited Her, and the comedy The Beard.

In 1960 Mitford published her first book Hons and Rebels ( American title: Daughters and Rebels ), a memoir covering her youth in the Redesdale household.

He is the author of numerous books of poetry, a memoir, a travel book, and several novels in collaboration with his partner Neil Derrick, notably the best-selling Village, recently reissued as The Villagers by ( pseud.

* Ronald Skirth ( 1897 – 1977 ), conscientious objector and author of the First World War memoir The Reluctant Tommy, grew up in Bexhill and describes it at length in his book.

However, unlike many GM executives, Sloan did not put Drucker on his blacklist for writing the 1946 book ; Drucker, in his new introduction for the 1990 republishing of Sloan's memoir, said, " When his associates attacked me in a meeting called to discuss the book, Sloan immediately rose to my defense.

Jackson noted his enthusiasm for real ale in his autobiography, A Cure For Gravity, published in 1999, which Jackson has described as a " book about music, thinly disguised as a memoir ".

Her book, Period Piece, is a memoir of a childhood messing about on the river.