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 ).

The story caused consternation among Jewish readers and religious groups, as recounted in chapter five of Roth's 1988 memoir The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography.

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.

Many of the characters are semi-autobiographical, and readers of O ' Brien's work will notice that some of the characters share similarities with characters from his memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home.

The reviewer for The New York Times wrote, " When not spinning out his piscine adventures as parables of loss and letting go gracefully, Raines gives readers an alternately jokey and bitter account of his downfall at The Times — which may indeed be perfectly accurate, at least according to the solipsistic standards of memoir writing.

The author's young age ( she wrote the book at the age of 21 ) surprised many readers, and the memoir was praised for its maturity and candor.

He worked to get them on the immigration lists, but asserted in a letter, included in the appendix of Gemma's memoir, that her " case was the same as that of hundreds of thousands of displaced people " and " no exceptions can be made ".

The phrase can be traced back to the 1936 publication of General Ludendorff ’ s World War I memoir Der Totale Krieg (" The Total War ").

Hunter S. Thompson's " gonzo journalism " ( 1970 ) can be seen as a hybrid of fictional picaresque with memoir and traditional reporting.

A description of life in the last years of Old Inchelium and of the move can be found in Lawney Reyes ' memoir White Grizzly Bear's Legacy: Learning to be Indian and his history / memoir B Street: The Notorious Playground of Coulee Dam.

* ( A memoir of a lapsed catholic who can ’ t quite fully escape )

The First Beautiful Game: Stories of Obsession in Real Tennis ( 2006 ) by top amateur player Roman Krznaric contains a mixture of real tennis history, memoir and fiction, which focuses on what can be learned from real tennis about the art of living.

David Gergen, who had worked in the White House during the Richard Nixon and three subsequent administrations said in his 2000 memoir Eyewitness to Power, of Woodward's reporting, " I don't accept everything he writes as gospel – he can get details wrong – but generally, his accounts in both his books and in the Post are remarkably reliable and demand serious attention.

Nonfiction can cross many genres but is typically expressed in essays, memoir, and other forms that may or may not be narrative but share the characteristics of being fact-based, artistically-rendered prose.

The novel can be regarded as a fictitious memoir, as it is told by the vicar himself by retrospection.

" In her 2011 memoir, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice praises Edson as being " one of the best ' policy engineers ' I'd ever known, one of those rare individuals who can take an idea from inception to implementation.

Colorful opinions about Houk can be found in Jim Bouton's classic 1970 memoir, Ball Four.

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.

It is popularly believed, as cited by the Kuna Chamber of Commerce, that the translation of the name " Kuna " means " the end of the trail ", but Charles S. Walgamott cites the origin of the name as a Shoshone Indian word meaning " green leaf, good to smoke " ( see " Six Decades Back ", a memoir of Walgamott's adventures in the late 1800s in southern Idaho ).

In fact, Henrik had mentioned this possibility as long ago as 1996, in his published memoir, " During our generation the future sovereign will perhaps receive approval to see ' Monpezat ' added to the dynastic name of ' Oldenbourg-Glücksbourg '".

( Branden later explained in his memoir that he and Rand had in fact been romantically intimate for a period of time in the late 1950s ; see personal life.

For Price's life see memoir by his nephew, William Morgan.

Published several years later ( see Further reading ), the memoir fails to mention Arnold at all.

I hope that after seeing the movie and reading my memoir that people will see that every child has value and boundless potential and that even if all one has to give is an encouraging word as a genuine gesture of care.

On Mucianus's memoir see George Williamson, " Mucianus and a Touch of the Miraculous: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Roman Asia Minor ," in Jaś Elsner and Ian Rutherford, eds., Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods.

Unable to see a salient theme for his greater wartime experience, publishers showed little interest in another memoir.

As well as her fiction ( see below ) Mooney has written many other books, including ' Bel Mooney's Somerset ' ( 1989 ) and a memoir about love, loss, recovery-and dogs: ' Small Dogs Can Save Your Life ' ( 2010 ).

However, in his memoir book about the races ( see References, below ), Yates reports that in the 1972 event, an all-female team consisting of Peggy Niemcek, Judy Stropus, and SCCA racer Donna Mae Mims (" The Pink Lady ") suffered a crash near El Paso, Texas, resulting in a DNF ( Did Not Finish.

While undertaking her A-levels, Barber had a two year relationship with a significantly older man, whom she knew as Simon Goldman, but who also called himself Simon Prewalski, an associate of Peter Rachman, who deceived both Barber and her parents: this affair was subsequently to provide the basis for a memoir by Barber and a movie ( see Career below ).

Eight of the pieces are non-fiction crime reportage or essays that Ellroy originally wrote for GQ magazine, some of which are autobiographical ( see also his memoir My Dark Places ).

His memoir was published as The Embattled Mountain the title referring to Mount Durmitor, the environs of which Deakin and Tito's army had been pursued over by German and Italian forces ; see Battle of the Sutjeska

The films Play Misty for Me and Fatal Attraction are two examples, as is the memoir Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen ( and the movie based on it, with Winona Ryder as Kaysen ).

After the October Revolution ( she never accepted the way it had happened ), Figner published her book called Memoirs of a Revolutionist (" Запечатлённый труд "), which is still considered one of the best examples of the Russian memoir genre.

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.

" The Private History of a Campaign that Failed " is one of Mark Twain's sketches ( 1885 ), a short, highly fictionalized memoir of his two-week stint in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard.

He was a prolific writer of essays, reviews and scholarly introductions, including those for the anonymous Victorian erotic memoir My Secret Life ( 1966 ), Aleksandr Afanasyev's Russian Secret Tales ( 1966 ), and Mark Twain's The Mammoth Cod ( 1976 ).

Also in 1984, Rivers published a best-selling humor book, The Life and Hard Times of Heidi Abramowitz, a mock memoir of her brassy, loose comedy character.

To Zip ( 1979, an alphabetized, and partially serious, listing of useful tips and concepts for beginning campers ); Whatchagot Stew ( 1989, both a cookbook and a less-fictionalized memoir of his childhood ); and The Deer On A Bicycle ( 2000, a discussion of the art of humor writing.

Former publisher Don Weise described it as " the world's oldest and largest publisher of LGBT literature " and " the home of award-winning books in the areas of memoir, history, humor, commercial fiction, mystery, and erotica, among many others ".

She described in her memoir, Harsh Route ( or Steep Route ), of a case which she was directly involved in during the late 1940s, after she had been moved to the prisoners ' hospital.

* 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.

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

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.

The memoir, which he distributed only to a few friends, expressed his frustration that people did not seem to value elegance in software, and it said of Gates, " He is divisive.

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.

Quayle authored a 1994 memoir, Standing Firm, which became a bestseller.

In fact, his father was so incensed by his departure that, as Severn reported in a late memoir, " in his insane rage he struck me a blow which fell me to the ground.

Her seminal works among laypeople are her memoir An Unquiet Mind, which details her experience with severe mania and depression, and Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, providing historical, religious, and cultural responses to suicide, as well as the relationship between mental illness and suicide.

Gavin Lambert's memoir, Mainly About Lindsay Anderson, in which he claimed that Anderson repressed his homosexuality, was seen as a betrayal by his other friends.

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.

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

A few years later, she published her memoir, titled Quiet Strength ( 1995 ), which focuses on her faith in her life.

A more recent example is the so-called Satanic ritual abuse scare of the 1980s — beginning with the memoir Michelle Remembers — which depicts Satanism as a vast ( and unproven ) conspiracy of elites with a predilection for child abuse and human sacrifice.

The word " turbine " was coined in 1822 by the French mining engineer Claude Burdin from the Latin turbo, or vortex, in a memoir, " Des turbines hydrauliques ou machines rotatoires à grande vitesse ", which he submitted to the Académie royale des sciences in Paris.

In his memoir, Marshall's only negative comment towards Wilson was, " I have sometimes thought that great men are the bane of civilization, they are the real cause of all the bitterness and contention which amounts to anything in the world.

In 1980, Agnew published a memoir in which he implied that Nixon and his Chief of Staff, Alexander Haig, had planned to assassinate him if he refused to resign the Vice Presidency, and that Haig told him to " go quietly … or else ", the memoir's title.

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.

This was followed by a memoir on the theory of the tides, to which, conjointly with the memoirs by Euler and Colin Maclaurin, a prize was awarded by the French Academy: these three memoirs contain all that was done on this subject between the publication of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica and the investigations of Pierre-Simon Laplace.

He wrote a memoir, Act One: An Autobiography by Moss Hart, which was released in 1959.

The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns British soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious natives.

It was based on Vincent Sheean's political memoir Personal History ( 1935 ), the rights to which were purchased by producer Walter Wanger for $ 10, 000.

Upon her return, she learned that Hyman had published a memoir, My Mother's Keeper, in which she chronicled a difficult mother-daughter relationship and depicted scenes of Davis's overbearing and drunken behavior.

" Her memoir concluded with a letter to her daughter, in which she addressed her several times as " Hyman ", and described her actions as " a glaring lack of loyalty and thanks for the very privileged life I feel you have been given ".

In 1986, Sue writes a memoir of her experience entitled My Name is Susan Snell, which warns the reader not to forget about the events that took place in Chamberlain, otherwise something like it may happen again.