Widdemer's essay in the 1933 Review of Literature, " Message and Middlebrow ," popularized the term " middlebrow.

He published a two-volume memoir: Hammer the Golden Day and On the Bridge of Time.

In a memoir that was later repudiated by its author, Guantanamo detainee Feroz Abbasi claimed Hicks was " Al-Qaedah's 24 Golden Boy " and " obviously the favourite recruit " of their al-Qaeda trainers during exercises at the al-Farouq camp near Kandahar.

In 1659 he published the Golden Remains of John Hales of Eton, with a memoir.

In April 2007 former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet released his memoir titled At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA.

* In June 2012 started the filming of Twelve Years a Slave ( film ), directed by British director Steve McQueen who also co-wrote the script with John Ridley to adapt Northup's memoir book.

Kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery in Louisiana, he was freed in 1853, and that year published his memoir Twelve Years a Slave ( 1853 ).

* 1966, his memoir Three Years in Mississippi, was published by the Indiana University Press.

Sloan's memoir, My Years with General Motors, written in the 1950s but withheld from publishing until an updated version was finally released in 1964, exemplified Sloan's vision of the professional manager and the carefully engineered corporate structure in which he worked.

His memoir and management treatise, My Years with General Motors, was more or less finished around this time ; but its publication was held up for nearly a decade longer by GM's legal staff, who feared that it would be used to support an antitrust case against GM.

In fact, Sloan's memoir and management treatise, My Years With General Motors, foresaw some of these problems.

'" 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 ).

Addams adored her father when she was a child, as she made clear in the stories she told in her memoir, Twenty Years at Hull House ( 1910 ).

* Richard Henry Dana, Jr. author of the famous memoir Two Years Before the Mast.

Years later a retired Iranian colonel wrote in his memoir that the fatal shot had come from a Colt revolver, available only to soldiers.

* Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand, a memoir by Nathaniel Branden

* Politics and Pasta: How I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Advised a President, Dined with Sinatra, Spent Five Years in a Federally Funded Gated Community, and Lived to Tell the Tale, a book by Vincent " Buddy " Cianci with David Fisher ( ISBN 978-0312592806 ), is Cianci's memoir.

Admiral James F. Calvert in his memoir, Silent Running: My Years on a World War II Attack Submarine, and Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood in Sink ' Em All, his narrative of Allied submarine warfare, describe its history.

Richard Henry Dana Jr. ( August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882 ) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family who gained renown as the author of the American classic, the memoir Two Years Before the Mast.

During his voyages he had kept a diary, and in 1840 ( coinciding with his admission to the bar ) he published a memoir, Two Years Before the Mast.

Fifty Years in the Making of Australian History ( 1892 ), memoir online

** C-SPAN Q & A interview with Novak about his memoir, The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting In Washington, July 15, 2007

In 1997, he published his memoir, So Far, So Good-the First 94 Years.

It is also the location of former U. S. Peace Corps teacher Peter Hessler's best-selling memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze.

Dobbs was the author of a four-volume history / memoir of the Minneapolis struggles, Teamster Rebellion, Teamster Power, Teamster Politics & Teamster Bureaucracy, and had completed two volumes of a planned history of the Marxist movement in the United States at the time of his death, called Revolutionary Continuity: The Early Years, 1848-1917 & Birth of the Communist Movement, 1918-1922.

In 1932, Chaliapin published a memoir, Man and Mask: Forty Years in the Life of a Singer.

It was adapted from Northrup's memoir, Twelve Years a Slave, published in 1853.

Northup published his memoir, Twelve Years a Slave ( 1853 ), a slave narrative of plantation life on the Red River in Louisiana, and a description of the slave trade in Washington, DC.

The pagan rhetor Libanius ( c. 314 – 394 ) framed his life memoir ( Oration I begun in 374 ) as one of his orations, not of a public kind, but of a literary kind that could not be aloud in privacy.

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

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

In his memoir A Moveable Feast, published after his death, he writes " I tried to balance Miss Stein's quotation from the garage owner with one from Ecclesiastes.

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

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 his memoir, Reminiscences, MacArthur wrote " I learned to ride and shoot even before I could read or write — indeed, almost before I could walk and talk.

Alan Jay Lerner gave tribute to Hart in his memoir, The Street Where I Live.

In her second memoir, This ' N That ( 1987 ), Davis wrote, " I am still recovering from the fact that a child of mine would write about me behind my back, to say nothing about the kind of book it is.

" 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 his 1999 best-selling memoir I Ain't Got Time to Bleed, Ventura responded to the controversy sparked by these remarks by elaborating on his views concerning religion:

In his memoir, actor Bruce Dern said that " Neville Brand was the baddest guy I ’ ve ever met in the business.

* Jacobs, Catherine I Want to Go Home ( Book Guild Ltd ) ISBN 1-85776-925-2-Growing up in Homerton, a family memoir

Paul Jennings, the former slave of the Madisons, later recalled in his memoir, " In the last days of her life, before Congress purchased her husband's papers, she was in a state of absolute poverty, and I think sometimes suffered for the necessaries of life.

Aldington, in his 1941 memoir, writes: " I think the poems of Ezra Pound, H. D., Lawrence, and Ford Madox Ford will continue to be read.

A made-for-TV movie version of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, based on Maya Angelou's memoir, was filmed in Vicksburg.

* Connie Clausen, television and Broadway actress, literary agent, and author of " I Love You Honey but The Season's Over ", a memoir about Menasha

The lyrics include a reference from an excerpt from Doc Pomus ’ s uncompleted memoir, February 21, 1984: " I was never one of those happy cripples who stumbled around smiling and shiny-eyed, trying to get the world to cluck its tongue and shake its head sadly in my direction.

In his second memoir, Bradley would later state that not arguing more forcefully in 1948 and 1949 for a sufficient defense department budget " was a mistake ... perhaps the greatest mistake I made in my postwar years in Washington.

Mia later said in her memoir " if Jesus Christ Himself had embraced me, I would have misinterpreted it ".

* December 30-The memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, is removed from the ninth-grade English curriculum in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, because it " portrays white people as being horrible, nasty, stupid people ".

In 2003, Meili confirmed her identity to the media, published a memoir entitled I Am the Central Park Jogger, and began a career as an inspirational speaker.