Wolff's memoir This Boy's Life chronicles his early life living in eastern Skagit County and attending Concrete High School ( referred to as " Chinook High School " in the novel ).

This Boy's Life is a memoir by Tobias Wolff first published in 1989.

Among her mentors at Goddard was Tobias Wolff, whose memoir This Boy's Life served as a major influence on Karr's own writing.

* Anthony Godby Johnson, a supposedly fictional author of the memoir A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy's Triumphant Story

The book picks up more or less where Wolff's first memoir, This Boy's Life, leaves off.

Anthony Godby Johnson is the subject and supposed author of the 1993 memoir A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy's Triumphant Story.

* 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.

This incident was chronicled in her memoir, A Blighted Life ( 1880 ).

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

Pu Songling brought the short story form to a new level in his Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, published in the mid-18th century, and Shen Fu demonstrated the charm of the informal memoir in Six Chapters of a Floating Life, written in the early 19th century but published only in 1877.

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 ).

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 ).

* Life for Life's Sake: Memories of a Vanished England and a Changing World, by One Who Was Bohemian, Poet, Soldier, Novelist and Wanderer ( 1941 ) memoir

In her 2000 memoir My Life as a Ten-Year-Old Boy, Cartwright wrote: " with the brilliant wit of the writers and the wry, in-your-eye, honest-to-a-fault interpretation, Yeardley Smith has made Lisa a bright light of leadership, full of compassion and competence beyond her years.

Though he attracted much attention during his life for his irascible, aggressive personality, editorship of famous periodicals, and friendship with the talented and famous, he is remembered mainly for his multiple-volume memoir My Life and Loves, which was banned in countries around the world for its sexual explicitness.

After Voyager came to the end of the full seven seasons, Mulgrew returned to theater and starred in a one-woman play called Tea at Five, a monologue reminiscence based on Katharine Hepburn's memoir Me: Stories of My Life.

* A Life Like Other People's ( memoir ), London, 2009

Mark Twain's memoir Life on the Mississippi ( 1883 ), notable mainly for its account of the author's time on the river, also recounts parts of his later life, and includes tall tales and stories allegedly told to him.

He released a memoir in 2012 called The Goal of My Life with Roger Lajoie.

Cavendish published her autobiographical memoir A True Relation of my Birth, Breeding, and Life as an addendum to her collection Natures Pictures Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life in 1656.

In 2006, Emerick released his memoir, Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles ( Gotham Books, ISBN 1-59240-179-1 ), co-authored by veteran music journalist Howard Massey.

In his last memoir, Hart-Davis listed the books he had edited as: The Second Omnibus Book ( Heinemann ) 1930 ; Then and Now ( Cape ) 1935 ; The Essential Neville Cardus ( Cape ) 1949 ; Cricket All His Life by E. V.

See also F Hardy, Memoirs of Lord Charlemont ( London, 1812 ); Warden Flood, Memoirs of Henry Flood ( London, 1838 ); Francis Plowden, Historical Review of the State of Ireland ( London, 1803 ); Alfred Webb, Compendium of Irish Biography ( Dublin, 1878 ); Sir Jonah Barrington, Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation ( London, 1833 ); WJ O ' Neill Daunt, Ireland and her Agitators ; Lord Mountmorres, History of the Irish Parliament ( 2 vole., London, 1792 ); Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III ( 4 vols., London, 1845 and 1894 ); Lord Stanhope, Life of William Pitt ( 4 vols., London, 1861 ); Thomas Davis, Life of JP Curran ( Dublin, 1846 ) this contains a memoir of Grattan by DO Madden, and Grattan's reply to Lord Clare on the question of the Union ; Charles Phillips, Recollections of Curran and some of his Contemporaries ( London, 1822 ); JA Froude, The English in Ireland ( London, 1881 ); JG McCarthy, Henry Grattan: an Historical Study ( London, 1886 ); Lord Mahon's History of England, vol.

On May 10, 2008, Bechdel announced that she was putting the strip on indefinite hiatus in order to complete her graphic novel memoir Love Life.

Lott's memoir, entitled Herding Cats: A Life in Politics, was published in 2005.

The memoir emphasised his paranormal interests but was not what readers wanted, so after their mother's death Adrian and Denis grudgingly allowed Hesketh Pearson to write Conan Doyle: His Life and Art ( Methuen, 1943 ).

A group of lyrics to Negro spirituals was published by Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who commanded a regiment of former slaves during the Civil War, in an article in The Atlantic Monthly and subsequently included in his 1869 memoir Army Life in a Black Regiment ( 1869 ).

* Carolyn Maull McKinstry's memoir, While the World Watched ( 2011 ), provides an eyewitness account of the bombing, the events leading up to it ( e. g., the anonymous phone calls made to the church, some of which warned that a bomb would go off, and when ), and the climate and life at that time in Birmingham, specifically, and in the Jim Crow South, more generally, as the publisher describes: " from the bombings, riots and assassinations to the historic marches and triumphs that characterized the Civil Rights movement.

In that time he also kept a wide ranging visual record of all the great bands he worked with on formats ranging from Super 8 / 16mm and 35mm to VHSC, Digibeta and all formats in between. From these sources he has created the musical memoir film that is ' Saunders Lewis vs Andy Warhol '. Emyr calls the film ....' a group portrait from a time before our music was Cool or devolved, and a film created exclusively from the images that I shot and produced at that time augmented by words that were said directly to me .......' The film includes a massive list of influential musicians caught exclusively for his camera and also featured in exclusive conversations with Emyr-Among those who appear ... Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Ffa Coffi Pawb, Catatonia, Melys, Topper, Fflaps, Datblygu, Llwybr Llaethog, Y Cyrff, Beganifs,

In her 1945 memoir A Star Danced, she recalled, " After weeks of more or less patient waiting, repeated timid, pleading, urgent, and finally importunate requests to the authorities who rule such matters in Washington and London, and a rapid-fire barrage of telegrams, cables, and telephone calls, it had happened.

In his memoir, The Big Sea, Hughes calls Fauset the “ midwife ” of the Harlem Renaissance, though the truth of this moniker has only recently been fully appreciated by critics.

Prose calls the book " manipulative melodrama ", and considers Angelou's writing style an inferior example of " poetic " prose in memoir.

" John R. Jewitt, an Englishman who wrote a memoir about his years as a captive of the Nootka people on the Pacific Northwest Coast in 1802 – 1805, describes how what he calls train oil was used as a condiment with every dish, even strawberries.

Hitting an all-time low, he seeks refuge in an isolated cabin in the woods and reads an odd memoir written by a dead relative who believed he had visited the magical world of Faerie.

Drawing of a Chinook dugout ( boat ) | dugout canoe from a memoir of the Oregon Country published in 1844.

* 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.

" Reagan recalled in his memoir that he had " neither the experience nor talent to fake it ," so he carried out exhaustive research, talking to disabled people and doctors, and practicing the line every chance he got.

In his memoir, Bacon said Harriet was " near white and very beautiful ," and that people said Jefferson freed her because she was his daughter.

In 2012, Scotty Bowers wrote a memoir " Full Service ," where he also claimed that he was a lover of both Grant and Scott.

This kind of memoir refers to the idea in ancient Greece and Rome, that memoirs were like " memos ," pieces of unfinished and unpublished writing which a writer might use as a memory aid to make a more finished document later on.

Although this incident is sometimes described as a proposal for " guerrilla war ," Alexander describes in his memoir, Fighting for the Confederacy, the proposed alternative to surrender as " the army may be ordered to scatter in the woods & bushes & either to rally upon Gen. Johnston in North Carolina, or to make their way, each man to his own state, with his arms, & to report to his governor.

The transition of the Austin music scene from the mid-seventies progressive country scene to the punk / new wave and alternative influence that followed is captured in Jesse Sublett's memoir, " Never the Same Again: A Rock n ' Roll Gothic ," which details Sublett's experiences with the Skunks and other bands during that time period.

Pat O ' Brien's memoir published March 1918, Outwitting the Hun: My Escape from a German Prison Camp refers to " cooties ," on pages 61, 62 and 63, which in Lt. O ' Brien's case had been caught in the prison camp in Courtrai.

" Bitter Freedom: William Stone's Record of Service in the Freedmen's Bureau ," edited by Suzanne Stone Johnson and Robert Allison Johnson ( 2008 ), memoir by white Bureau official

The memoir laid bare the inconclusive character of the incriminating document ( without, however, publishing it ), and affirmed, in opposition to " L ' Eclair ," that it bore only the initial " D " and not the name " Dreyfus ".

" His memoir, " Laughs, Luck ... and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time ," was completed after his death by his son, Gregg Oppenheimer.

Upon publication of her first book, the memoir When I was Puerto Rican, Ms. Santiago was hailed as " a welcome new voice, full of passion and authority ," by the Washington Post Book World.

* " Wissenschaft as Personal Experience memoir ," The Hastings Center report 32: 4 ( Jul – Aug 2002 ): 27 – 35 ISSN 0093-0334

* Hans Jonas, " Wissenschaft as Personal Experience memoir ," The Hastings Center report 32: 4 ( Jul – Aug 2002 ): 27 – 35 ISSN 0093-0334

Author of numerous acclaimed books, including " Teaching Life ," a memoir of over 35 years of teaching.

He described it in his memoir as " very disagreeable ," but respected the ritual with the chiefs.

" It is in the family that we learn almost all we ever know of loving ," Wyatt Cooper wrote in his 1975 memoir.

* Memoir and Writings ( 2 vols., Boston, 1880 ), the first volume including a memoir by George Ticknor Curtis, and the second " Miscellaneous Writings ," edited by Benjamin R. Curtis, his son.

In his memoir " Lost in Music ," Giles Smith describes himself as " unhealthily obsessed with the clean lines of Scritti Politti's Cupid and Psyche 85, an album on which nobody does anything unless a computer says so.

A third memoir, Lit: A Memoir, which she says details " my journey from blackbelt sinner and lifelong agnostic to unlikely Catholic ," came out in November 2009.

With the exception of the choreography and the physical trappings, the show was deadly ," Tune recalled in his memoir Footnotes.

Veteran referee Earl Strom, who wrote about this in his memoir " Calling the Shots ," called Havlicek's reaction one of the greatest plays Strom ever saw in his 32 years as a professional official.

In 1980, she wrote about her wartime experiences in the memoir " Crossroads Marseilles 1940 ," published by Doubleday in 1980, and republished in France in 2001 by Mary Jayne Gold's literary heir Pierre Sauvage.

Jack London refers to steam beer in his " alcoholic memoir ," John Barleycorn, in a passage explaining how he started drinking in late-1880s San Francisco: