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.

In his own memoir Palimpsest, the author Gore Vidal gave a personal definition: " a memoir is how one remembers one's own life, while an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double-checked.

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.

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.

`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.

He cannot, e.g. compute the retrograde arc traveled by Mars, without also making suppositions about the earth's own motion.

Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe.

Taking into account Thompson's capacity for self-dramatization and the possibility of a wish to identify his own life with the misfortunes of other poets who had known unhappy loves, there can be no doubt about his genuine emotion for Katie King.

All about him stood tombstones his own sensitive great hands had fashioned.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

Gradually Schiele evolved a somber style of his own -- and he had few inhibitions about his subject matter.

The most surprising thing about the Twenty-second Congress of the Soviet Communist Party is that it is surprising -- perhaps quite as much, in its own way, as the Twentieth Congress of 1956, which ended with that famous `` secret '' report on Stalin.

You'll have to find out about it on your own.

He thought that if once, only once, he could talk with Simms Purdew, something about his own life, and all life, would be clear and simple.

Never in my life have I felt so remorseful about anything I've done as I did about spending that night with my own wife.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

There was an air of revolt about the children -- even irreverence for their own principles.

Thus, the Commission acted with a sense of social responsibility within the area of its own convictions about the problem of government support to private education.

Music, of course, is not so explicit an art, but anybody who knew Charlie Parker knows that he felt much the same way about his own gift.

I do not believe that this is due to anything especially frightful about their relationship to their own creativity.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

Early in the nineteenth century the State of New Hampshire was casting about for a way to found its own state university.

and in the fact that she bases her decisions about work, college, carreer, and studies on what others are doing, rather than on her own sense of identity with given skills, abilities, likes, and dislikes.

She wasn't quite sure that I felt enough remorse about my drinking, or that I would not return to it once I was out and on my own again.

They're contaminating the earth's atmosphere including their own via mighty megaton bombs but their own peasants still don't know about it!!

We should not allow the image of an immanent end brought about indirectly by our own action in the continuing human struggle for a just endurable order of existence to blind us to the fact that in some measure accelerating the end of our lease may be one consequence among others of many other of mankind's thrusts toward we know not what future.