In 2008, documentary filmmaker, Joanne Caputo, winner of the PBS Independent Lens Audience Award for her 2005 “ On A Roll: Family, Disability and the American Dream ,” self-published “ Margaret Garner: Diversity and Depth of Love .” The non-fiction two-book manuscript includes a memoir, in which Caputo describes her paranormal experiences with Margaret Garner and a claim of being Garner ’ s reincarnated murdered daughter.

McMaster's mid-life memoir The Gargoyle's Ear: Writing in Ottawa ( Black Moss 2007 ) recounts stories from the projects, contacts, and interests that comprise her committed life as a poet.

On representing this to Mr. Darwin, he gave us permission to make what use we thought proper of his memoir, & c .; and in adopting our present course, of presenting it to the Linnean Society, we have explained to him that we are not solely considering the relative claims to priority of himself and his friend, but the interests of science generally ".

Schiffrin published a memoir in 2000, in which he explains his side of the controversies surrounding Pantheon and Random House called The Business of Books: How International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read, in which he accused Vitale and those with money-making interests of homogenizing the publishing industry by focusing too much on profits and warns, " the resulting control on the spread of ideas is stricter than anyone would have though possible in a free society ".

One of the President's special assistants, the Harvard dean McGeorge Bundy, was co-author with Henry L. Stimson of the latter's classic memoir, On Active Service.

One memoir was an account of her mother ’ s life.

A second memoir was about the fortunes of her mother ’ s family and the last memoir recorded the misfortunes ( casus suorum ) of the family of Agrippina and Germanicus.

( Lennon recalled in a memoir, " I was on acid, and she was on her way out.

The memoir was diary entries, poems, letters, drawings, personal photos, and lyric compositions spanning from Love's childhood up until the year 2006, shortly after her release from a six-month rehab sentence.

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.

The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as " Checagou " was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir written about the time.

During that year Eisenhower's memoir, Crusade in Europe, was published.

" Caitlin said in her memoir, " Nobody ever needed encouragement less, and he was drowned in it.

He submitted his memoir on equation theory several times, but it was never published in his lifetime due to various events.

Unfortunately, Fourier died soon after, and the memoir was lost.

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

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 turn-of-the-century building that Harpo called " the first real home they ever knew " ( in his memoir Harpo Speaks ) was populated with European immigrants, mostly artisans.

Chapman's memoir, A Liar's Autobiography, was published in 1980 and, unusually for a work of this type, had five authors: Chapman, his partner David Sherlock, Alex Martin, David Yallop and Douglas Adams.

In June 2011, it was announced that most of the surviving Python members ( except Idle ) will perform in a 3-D animated version of Chapman's memoir A Liar ’ s Autobiography: Volume VI.

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.

First she invited him to her plantation in 1877 near Biloxi, Mississippi at a time when he was ailing, and gave him a cottage to use for working on his memoir.

As Davis explained in his memoir The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, he believed that each state was sovereign and had an unquestionable right to secede from the Union.

Her second memoir, Nothing Was the Same, examines her relationship with her second husband, the psychiatrist Richard Jed Wyatt, who was Chief of the Neuropsychiatry Branch

Describing the experience in her memoir, Riefenstahl wrote: " I had an almost apocalyptic vision that I was never able to forget.

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

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.

1927 saw the publication of Trader Horn, the memoir of Alfred Aloysius Smith, who had worked for a British trading company in what is now Gabon in the late 1800s.

He returned to New York, enrolling at Syracuse University, but he recalled in his 2006 memoir, Just One More Thing, that he was unsure what he wanted to do with his life for years after leaving high school.

He wrote to M. Hermite calling his attention to what he had published ; in reply he was assured that the members of the commission did not know of the existence of his papers, and he was advised to complete his demonstrations and submit the memoir according to the rules of the competition.

'" Drucker related that for 20 years after that meeting, Sloan and Drucker had a good relationship, in which Sloan would invite Drucker to lunch once or twice a year to discuss Sloan's philanthropic plans and the memoir that Sloan was working on assembling ( what became My Years ).

In his memoir, Sloan ( who would freely acknowledge that he was not a trained accountant ) said that the system that he implemented in the early 1920s was far better than what it replaced ( which was, in so many words, an undesigned cacophony in which financial controls mostly didn't exist ).

Her mother attempted to quash these, which would have been viewed as unseemly in a woman ; according to Lucy Aikin's memoir, what resulted was " a double portion of bashfulness and maidenly reserve " in Barbauld's character.

* Anna Leonowens, governess in what is now Thailand, whose memoir Anna and the King of Siam reached the stage as The King and I

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.

Currently, she is appearing in what has been dubbed a " a musical memoir " Taught 2 Dance a work-in-progress which concerns her life as a performer " growing up to become a real person.

The first recorded use of the term commutative was in a memoir by François Servois in 1814, which used the word commutatives when describing functions that have what is now called the commutative property.

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.

Albert Depew's World War I memoir, Gunner Depew ( 1918 ), includes: " Of course you know what the word " cooties " means ...

Of the memoir, Davies said he wished to " attempt to remember what I liked as a boy / youth / idiot and to work out why ".

Kerr ’ s second memoir, The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967 Volume Two: Political Turmoil details what he refers to as his greatest blunders in dealing with the Free Speech Movement that ultimately led to his firing.

In his memoir, Morse wrote " In addition to other notable papers ... on ... Hartree's self-consistent field, the quantum mechanical derivation of the Rydberg constant, and the best values of atomic shielding constants, he wrote a seminal paper on directing valency " ( what became known, later, as linear combination of atomic orbitals ).

In Tune's 1997 memoir Footnotes, he writes about what drives him as a performer, choreographer and director, offers stories about being openly gay in the world of theatre, his partners David Wolfe and Michael Stuart, about his days with Twiggy in My One and Only and meeting and working with his many idols.

Spycatcher was part memoir, part exposé of what Wright claimed were serious institutional failings in MI5 and his subsequent investigations into those.

Adler wrote in his memoir that the passion of his future wife Sonya Oberlander ( and of her family ) for theater, and their vision of what Yiddish theater could become, kept him in the profession despite his uncle's view.

Schreyer published a memoir in 2009, in which he said he continued to be an optimist, despite what had happened:

Fitzroy Maclean, then a young diplomat in the British Embassy, states in his memoir Eastern Approaches that von Herwarth condemned the appeasement of the Munich Agreement, predicted a Soviet-German commitment to non-aggression ( which came to pass as the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact ), and saw ahead to what he called " the destruction of Germany ".

* John R. Jewitt, an Englishman who wrote a memoir about his years ( 1802 – 1805 ) as a captive of the Nootka people in what is now British Columbia ; his writings are an important source of information about indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, and also touch on the training and working life of an armourer in those days.

After his death Ernest Satow wrote of Brinkley to Frederick Victor Dickins on 21 November 1912: " I have not seen any fuller memoir of Brinkley than what appeared in “ The Times ”.

As Marius Appleby, he writes what appears to be a true-life memoir of his seduction of a large-bosomed lady on an exotic foreign exploration.