memoirs

/ ˈmɛmwɑːz /

plural noun

1. a collection of reminiscences about a period, series of events, etc, written from personal experience or special sources
2. an autobiographical record
3. a collection or record, as of transactions of a society, etc

Example Sentences

Both of you have written memoirs.

From Los Angeles Times

Didion would go on to write “The White Album,” her classic 1979 collection of essays, and move to New York before publishing two memoirs — 2005’s “The Year of Magical Thinking” and 2011’s “Blue Nights” — that became mammoth bestsellers.

From Los Angeles Times

Zehme, who wrote for Rolling Stone and other major magazines, had authored books on Frank Sinatra and Andy Kaufman in addition to ghostwriting memoirs for Regis Philbin and Leno.

From Los Angeles Times

While many first ladies release memoirs, most don’t choose to do it mere weeks before their husbands’ presidential races, presumably because they don’t want to be distractions.

From Slate

In his memoirs he accused the Democrats of distorting the event, implying “that I had murdered veterans on the streets of Washington.”

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• account
• annals
• biography
• record
• relation
• story
• tale