Memoir
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   For other uses, see Memoir (disambiguation).
   As a literary genre, a memoir (from the French: mémoire from the Latin
   autobiography - although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are
   today almost interchangeable. The author of a memoir may be referred
[edit] Nature of memoirs
   Memoirs may appear less structured and less encompassing than formal
   adulthood/old age. Traditionally, memoirs usually dealt with public
   matters, rather than personal, and many older memoirs contain little
   with other people. Also, many memoirs deal with one certain moment
   memoirs are generally written from the first person point of view.
   Gore Vidal, in his own memoir Palimpsest, gave a personal definition:
   "a memoir is how one remembers one's own life, while an autobiography
   Contemporary practices of writing memoirs for recreational, family or
[edit] Types of memoir
   Memoirs have often been written by politicians or military leaders as
   the eighteenth century, "scandalous memoirs", allegedly factual but
   memoir as one of his orations, not the public kind, but the literary
   of memoir refers to the idea in ancient Greece and Rome, that memoirs
   Women writers have been prominent amongst those combining the memoir
   an example of a memoir that combines factual material with fictional
   form of memoirs. To some extent this is an extension of the tradition
   work of James Thurber which often has a strong memoir-like content).
   Another category of memoir is the eyewitness type of history by
   the memoirs of Frederick Douglass) fall into this category as do those
     * Fake memoirs
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