The Pianist is a memoir of the Polish composer of Jewish origin Władysław Szpilman, written and elaborated by the Polish author Jerzy Waldorff, who met Szpilman in 1938 in Krynica and became a friend of his.

The book is written in the first person as the memoir of Szpilman.

In 1998, Szpilman ’ s son Andrzej Szpilman republished the memoir of his father ’ s, first in German as Das wunderbare Überleben (" The Miraculous Survival ") and then in English as The Pianist.

As part of the 2007 Manchester International Festival, the memoir was performed as a two-man presentation, with pianist Mikhail Rudy and actor Peter Guinness both portraying Władysław Szpilman as he recounts his experiences.

Szpilman is widely known as the protagonist of the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which is based on his memoir of the same name recounting his survival of the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust.

As vividly described in his memoir, in February 1944 Szpilman found places to hide in Warsaw and survived with the help of his friends from Polish Radio and fellow musicians such as Andrzej Bogucki and his wife Janina.

In 1945, shortly after the war's end, Szpilman wrote a memoir about his survival in Warsaw.

Although it concludes with his survival, Szpilman declined to conclude his memoir on a happy note.

Some people were hiding in the remnants of the city, e. g. Władysław Szpilman, who later wrote his memoir The Pianist, filmed by Roman Polanski ( The Pianist, 2002 ).

* The Pianist ( memoir ), a book by Władysław Szpilman about himself, a Polish-Jewish musician, who survived the Holocaust

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In his memoir, The Seesaw Girl and Me, published posthumously, he describes the struggle to break his addiction and to come to grips with the loss of his career.

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In her memoir No Hurry to Get Home, she describes how being prevented from taking a chemistry class in which she was interested caused her to switch her course of study from English to Engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

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In his memoir, Who Says Elephants Can't Dance ?, he describes his arrival at the company in April 1993, when an active plan was in place to dis-aggregate the company.

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" In Smythe's memoir he describes it as the most misunderstood remark he ever made.

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Despite the lost memoir, Galois published three papers that year, one of which laid the foundations for Galois theory.

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In his memoir A Moveable Feast, published after his death, he writes " I tried to balance Miss Stein's quotation from the garage owner with one from Ecclesiastes.

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A personal memoir by one of the conspirators.

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

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394 ) framed his life memoir as one of his orations, not the public kind, but the literary kind that would be read aloud in the privacy of one's study.

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