Agrippina wrote a memoir that recorded the misfortunes of her family ( casus suorum ) and wrote an account of her mother ’ s life.

* Stephen Kuusisto wrote about his experiences as a visually impaired person in Planet of the Blind, and his upcoming memoir, Eavesdropping: A Life By Ear.

* Jennings Michael Burch-Spent his childhood going through multiple foster homes and wrote the 1984 best selling novel They Cage the Animals at Night which is a memoir of that period of his life.

Best-selling Irish investigative author, Don Mullan, published a boyhood memoir in 2006 called GORDON BANKS: A Hero Who Could Fly in which he wrote about the influence of the England goalkeeper on his life.

* 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.

Describing the experience in her memoir, Riefenstahl wrote: " I had an almost apocalyptic vision that I was never able to forget.

Without doubt, the single most significant paper concerning the distribution of prime numbers was Riemann's 1859 memoir On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude, the only paper he ever wrote on the subject.

Urysohn's sister, Lina Neiman wrote a memoir about his life and childhood.

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.

Some Native Americans captured Europeans and used them as both labourers and bargaining chips ; see for example John R. Jewitt, an Englishman who wrote a memoir about his years as a captive of the Nootka people on the Pacific Northwest Coast from 1802 – 1805.

Lina wrote a memoir, Leben mit einem Kriegsverbrecher ( Living With a War Criminal ), which was published in 1976.

In his 1870 memoir, Army Life in a Black Regiment, New England abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson ( later editor of Emily Dickinson ), described how he wrote down and preserved Negro spirituals or " shouts " while serving an a colonel in the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first authorized Union Army regiment recruited from freedmen during the Civl War ( memorialized in the 1989 film Glory ).

In Marshall's memoir, he wrote that when he approached Harrison to pay his bill, his lawyer informed him that he would not charge him for the service, but instead gave him a lecture on ethics.

His death devastated Marshall, who wrote in his memoir that Izzy " was and is and ever will be so sacred to me ..."

The Decemberists ' frontman Colin Meloy wrote a memoir centered around the album " Let it Be " for the 331 / 3 imprint in the early 2000s.

He was continually called on for help in developing the agriculture and trade of the colony, and his influence was used in connection with the sending out of early free settlers, one of whom, a young gardener George Suttor, afterwards wrote a memoir of Banks.

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 ).

Crawford disinherited the two and, after Crawford's death, Christina wrote a " tell-all " memoir, Mommie Dearest, in which she alleged a lifelong pattern of physical and emotional abuse perpetrated by Crawford.

* Howard Dully wrote a memoir of his late-life discovery that he had been lobotomized in 1960 at age 12.

Fruchter later wrote a memoir of their relationship ( Dudley Moore, Ebury Press, 2004 ).

He wrote to M. Hermite calling his attention to what he had published ; in reply he was assured that the members of the commission did not know of the existence of his papers, and he was advised to complete his demonstrations and submit the memoir according to the rules of the competition.

In his memoir, Reminiscences, MacArthur wrote " I learned to ride and shoot even before I could read or write — indeed, almost before I could walk and talk.

An example of the latter is Markus Hess ( more diligent than skilled ), who spied for the KGB and was ultimately caught because of the efforts of Clifford Stoll, who wrote a memoir, The Cuckoo's Egg, about his experiences.

Christie wrote little of Poirot ’ s childhood though in Three Act Tragedy she writes that he comes from a large family with little wealth.

He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.

In letters to Clarke he wrote of the absurdity of the existing system, complaining primarily about the unfairness of it to authors, and " he parallels between Locke's commentary and those reasons presented by the Commons to the Lords for refusing to renew the 1662 Act are striking ".

Jonathan Swift was a strong advocate for licensing, and Daniel Defoe wrote on 8 November 1705 that with the absence of licensing, " One Man Studies Seven Year, to bring a finish'd Peice into the World, and a Pyrate Printer, Reprints his Copy immediately, and Sells it for a quarter of the Price ... these things call for an Act of Parliament ".

In his review, psychologist Franz Samelson wrote that Gould was wrong in asserting that the psychometric results of the intelligence tests administered to soldier-recruits by the U. S. Army contributed to the legislation of the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924.

Looking back in 1883, Gladstone wrote that " In principle, perhaps my Coalwhippers Act of 1843 was the most Socialistic measure of the last half century ".

Gladstone wrote on 16 July 1892 in his autobiographica that " In 1834 the Government ... did themselves high honour by the new Poor Law Act, which rescued the English peasantry from the total loss of their independence ".

Composition of the music had begun during May-July of the previous year, 1840, when Wagner wrote Senta's Ballad, the Norwegian Sailors ' song in Act 3 (" Steersman, leave the Watch!

One such young writer was Edwin Chadwick, who wrote on hygiene, sanitation and policing and was a major contributor to the Poor Law Amendment Act.

Partially to confirm the promises he made to them, Calvert wrote the Maryland Toleration Act and encouraged the colonial assembly to pass it.

The composition of the music for Pirates was unusual, in that Sullivan wrote the music for the acts in reverse, intending to bring the completed Act II with him to New York, with Act I existing only in sketches.

Economist Thomas DiLorenzo notes that Senator Sherman sponsored the 1890 William McKinley tariff just three months after the Sherman Act, and agrees with The New York Times which wrote on October 1, 1890: " That so-called Anti-Trust law was passed to deceive the people and to clear the way for the enactment of this Pro-Trust law relating to the tariff.

On 4 February 1775 Governor Guy Carleton wrote to General Thomas Gage that he believed the Canadians to be generally happy with the Act, yet he also added:

In spite of widespread speculation that Roberts only agreed to join the court's majority in upholding New Deal legislation, such as the Social Security Act, during the spring of 1937 because of the court packing plan, Hughes wrote in his autobiographical notes that Roosevelt's court reform proposal " had not the slightest effect on our court's decision " in the Parrish case and that the delayed announcement of the decision created the false impression that the Court had retreated under fire.

In 1955, Remarque wrote the screenplay for an Austrian film, The Last Act ( Der letzte Akt ), about Hitler's final days in the bunker of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, which was based on the book Ten Days to Die ( 1950 ) by Michael Musmanno.

Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, wrote the novel as a response to the 1850 passage of the second Fugitive Slave Act.

Lennon and McCartney wrote " If You've Got Trouble " for Ringo Starr to sing, but the song was rejected and Starr sang " Act Naturally " instead.

Boston's chief customs officer, Charles Paxton, wrote to Hillsborough, asking for military support because " the Government is as much in the hands of the people as it was in the time of the Stamp Act.

* Judi Ann Mason, born and reared in Shreveport-Bossier, Hollywood screenwriter and producer, wrote " Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit "

For his 2008 album Act Your Age, Gordon Goodwin wrote a new big band arrangement to accompany Zenph ’ s re-performance of “ Yesterdays ,” and the track was recognized with a Grammy Nomination for Best Instrumental Arrangement.

Robert Livingston of New York, stressing the importance of removing the Stamp Act from the public debate, wrote to his colony's agent in England, " If I really wished to see America in a state of independence I should desire as one of the most effectual means to that end that the stamp act should be enforced.

In his account of the “ First New Deal ” Raymond Moley stated Roosevelt was “ sympathetic ” to the 1933 Banking Act “ but had no active part in pressing for its passage .” Moley also wrote that most of “ the people who were close to the White House were so busy with their own legislative programs that Glass was left to his own devices .”

In 1935, H. Parker Willis wrote that the 1933 Banking Act was “ already outdated ” when it became law.