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The famous New York Times restaurant critic's memoir of her first 30 years is a smorgasbord of compelling locations—New York in the 1960s, boarding school in Montreal, travels in Tunisia, Crete ...
A MiG-15 to Freedom: Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953: 1996 Charles W. Dryden: A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman: 1997 James V. Hartinger: From One Stripe to Four Stars: 1997 Frank E. Petersen: Into the Tiger's Jaw: America's First Black Marine Aviator: 1998 Paul ...
The Sarashina Nikki is an example of an early Japanese memoir, written in the Heian period. A genre of book writing, Nikki Bungaku, emerged during this time. Themes of court life, introspection, and emotional expressiveness were frequently explored in Japanese memoirs; Sarashina Nikki is among the most well-known examples. [4]
Ulysses S. Grant, working on his memoirs in 1885. His Personal Memoirs is considered by historians to be among the best by a U.S. president. Many presidents of the United States have written autobiographies about their presidencies and/or (some periods of) their life before their time in office. Some 19th-century U.S. presidents who wrote ...
Andre Agassi’s Open is a thrillingly untriumphant sports memoir that isn’t afraid to court controversy.Co-written with J.R. Moehringer, who also helped Prince Harry with Spare as well as his ...
Fi: A Memoir of My Son, by Alexandra Fuller “All parents who hear of Fi’s death have told me this: I wouldn’t survive the death of my child,” Alexandra Fuller writes.
These best-selling celebrity memoirs range from inspirational to funny and gossipy, including Prince Harry, Paris Hilton, Barbra Streisand, and more. 30 Juiciest Celebrity Memoirs to Read for the ...
The memoirs were eventually published in 1975. [5] Helen Taft was the first to have memoirs published during her lifetime, in 1914. [1] Memoirs by presidential spouses were uncommon until the 1970s; in the decades after Taft, only Edith Wilson, Grace Coolidge, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Lady Bird Johnson wrote and published their memoirs. [2]