While an autobiography typically focuses on the " life and times " of the writer, a memoir has a narrower, more intimate focus on his or her own memories, feelings and emotions.

In 2010, Loren played her own mother in a two-part Italian television miniseries about her early life, directed by Vittorio Sindoni, entitled La Mia Casa È Piena di Specchi ( translated My House Is Full of Mirrors ), based on the memoir written by her sister Maria.

The former KGB General Oleg Kalugin declared in his memoir that the KGB had Hall and the American Communist Party " under total control " and that he was known to be siphoning off " Moscow money " to set up his own horse-breeding farm.

In 1995, he took a stand against his own conduct of the war, confessing in a memoir that it was ' wrong, terribly wrong.

When serving with the French he had been at the Boulogne camp, and had traversed much of the ground gone over by Yorick in Sterne's novel ; and in his memoir of Didimo Cherico, to whom the version is ascribed, he throws much light on his own character.

Within the memoir, Cavendish also details her pastimes and manners and offers an account of her own personality and ambition, including her thoughts on her extreme bashfulness, contemplative nature and writing.

Harris later wrote Center of the Storm, her own memoir of the 2000 election controversy.

The posthumous memoir A Genius in the Family by Jacqueline's siblings Hilary and Piers ( later renamed Hilary and Jackie ), published well after her death, alleges that she had an extramarital affair with " Kiffer " Finzi, her own sister's husband, from 1971 to 1972 when she was visiting Hilary's family.

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.

So dissatisfied was Carlyle with the memoir that he resolved to give his own testimony about his friend, and his vivid Life ( 1851 ) has perpetuated the memory of Sterling more than any of the latter's own writings.

What It Is ( 2008 ) is a graphic novel that is part memoir, part collage and part workbook in which Barry instructs her readers in methods to open up their own creativity.

Argentine journalist Jacobo Timmerman, in his memoir of his own captivity, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, recalls seeing Oesterheld across the hall in a prison in 1977.

Oz credits a 1959 translation of American writer Sherwood Anderson ’ s short story collection Winesburg, Ohio with his decision to “ write about what was around me .” In A Tale of Love and Darkness, his memoir of coming of age in the midst of Israel ’ s violent birth pangs, Oz credits Anderson ’ s “ modest book ” with his own realization that " the written world … always revolves around the hand that is writing, wherever it happens to be writing: where you are is the center of the universe.

Geoff Emerick, who engineered many of the Beatles ' recordings, used the song title in the title of his own 2006 memoir, Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles.

Desperately needing officer replacements, the Colonel posted him to A Squadron, and gave him the opportunity to take part as a fighting tanker in the Eighth Army's victorious sweep through North Africa vividly recounted in his beautiful memoir Alamein to Zem Zem, illustrated with his own drawings.

To ensure that the views of the Legislative Assembly be understood by the British House of Commons, the Parti patriote had sent its own delegation to London in order to submit a memoir and a petition signed by 87, 000 people.

Nielsen wrote a memoir, The House Is Not a Home ( 1989, ISBN 0-7715-9426-7 ), noted for its bracing directness both about his colleagues and about his own personal life.

In his own memoir about his years as an undercover KGB man working as a Soviet press attaché in Washington, Oleg Kalugin revealed that he routinely met with many journalists in addition to Stone, including Walter Lippmann, Joseph Kraft, Drew Pearson, Chalmers Robers and Murray Marder of the Washington Post, and others.

According to Parvanov's own statement, the file only shows that he had been consulted as a historian in conjunction with the writing of a memoir book about events related to the Macedonian Question in the 19th century.

I Ching reports that the kingdom was home to more than a thousand Buddhist scholars ; it was in Srivijaya that he wrote his memoir of Buddhism during his own lifetime.

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.

The novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site and house, which showed the author had spent much of her own time in very similar situations herself.

This coming judgment will affect all of the nations, including the author ’ s own nation of Judah where God is understood to reside.

Copyright law recognises the right of an author based on whether the work actually is an original creation, rather than based on whether it is unique ; two authors may own copyright on two substantially identical works, if it is determined that the duplication was coincidental, and neither was copied from the other.

Claudius, as the author of a treatise on Augustus ' religious reforms, felt himself in a good position to institute some of his own.

For example, in one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, The Dream of the Red Chamber ( believed to be a semi-autobiographical account of author Cao Xueqin's own family life ), three generations of the Jia family are supported by one favorite concubine of the Emperor.

Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, recalled that when he asked Lu Weidong, a teacher at the party school in Yan ' an, why this is the case, Lu responded that the idea of the party having its own website was " redundant " and that " All the important media is owned by the Party, so we have no need to set up a website.

In its prologue, the author gratuitously insulted Cervantes, who not surprisingly took offense and responded ; the last half of Chapter LIX and most of the following chapters of Cervantes ' Segunda Parte lend some insight into the effects upon him ; Cervantes manages to work in some subtle digs at Avellaneda's own work, and in his preface to Part II, comes very near to criticizing Avellaneda directly.

According to author Steven Levy, IBM had discovered differential cryptanalysis on its own, and the NSA was apparently well aware of the technique.

As an author, he published under his own name as well as under pseudonyms, including David Grinnell.

If so, it is unclear how much Tatian may have borrowed from this previous author in determining his own narrative sequence of Gospel elements.

The author of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article was critical of the information it contained, believing it should " be received with caution, as the author is prone to exaggerate, and does not confine himself to what came within his own observation.

Film author Richard Glazer speculates that the film may have been autobiographical, " reflecting Capra's own uncertainties.

Through analysis of this and other of Hayek's works, Block purports, " in making the case against socialism, Hayek was led into making all sort of compromises with what otherwise appeared to be his own philosophical perspective – so much so, that if a system was erected on the basis of them, it would not differ too sharply from what this author explicitly opposed.

The anonymous author drew three main sources, including the Gospel of Mark, the sayings collection known as the Q source, and material unique to his own community.

He decided to create a comic strip of his own, which would adopt the recent American innovation of using speech balloons to depict the characters ' spoken words and inspired by established French comics author Alain St. Ogan.

", Stanford professor and author, Patricia Ryan Madson notes, " executives and engineers and people in transition are looking for support in saying yes to their own voice.

Hamel takes the view that it was the Hebrew author who was reacting to and adapting this mythological material to communicate his own, quite different message.

Tarzan author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was pleased with Weissmuller, although he so hated the studio's depiction of a Tarzan who barely spoke English that he created his own concurrent Tarzan series filmed on location in Central American jungles and starring Herman Brix as a suitably articulate version of the character.

Gradually, women began to author their own thoughts and literary works about lesbian relationships.

Also in 1893 he married his distant cousin Marianne Schnitger, later a feminist activist and author in her own right, who was instrumental in collecting and publishing Weber's journal articles as books after his death and her biography of him is an important source for understanding Weber's life.

Oxfordian researchers believe that the play is an early version of Shakespeare's own play, and point to the fact that Shakespeare's version survives in three quite different early texts, Q1 ( 1603 ), Q2 ( 1604 ) and F ( 1623 ), suggesting the possibility that it was revised by the author over a period of many years.

According to them, Sonnet 91 ( which compares the Fair Youth's love to such treasures as high birth, wealth, and horses ) implies that the author is in a position to make such comparisons, and the ' high birth ' he refers to is his own.

Dick's former wife Tessa claims that the published screenplay " has been heavily edited, and others have added material to the screenplay that Phil wrote ", though she suggests that " film producers really ought to take a look at the author ’ s own screenplay before embarking upon their journey of interpretation ".