Word: memoire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard this fall, Kim is attending the seminars of the Fellows Program and hopes to start work on two manuscripts. One is to be an analysis of Korea's internal politics and the other a memoir Kim has already published a collection of his letters from prison in Korean and Japanese: he hopes to have them translated into English...
...wonder that Limonov, who left Russia for the West in 1974, would notice such a distinction between cultures--for him, life is one big problem. It's Me, Eddie, Limonov's "fictional memoir" of a debauched, desperate Russian poet on welfare in New York City, was designed to shock the emigre community when it first appeared in 1974. Just translated into English, the book aims its bitter criticism at all the things that made Limonov's life miserable--that is, anything that can be cursed or sexually degraded. Naturally, his adopted homeland comes in for more than its fair share...
...successful. She found herself; she found a pleasant local fellow whom she later married; she discovered a passel of good friends in the cracker families living around the creek bend; and out of her experiences she wrote the novel that made her famous, The Yearling, and later her memoir, Cross Creek...
...This memoir by former Army Pilot Robert Mason recalls the violent, deafening, treetop world of 1,000 Viet Nam helicopter missions. Chickenhawk begins with a Florida farm boy's daydream of levitating above the fields and ends with the veteran suspended in horror and disillusionment...
Crowding the middle were historians, legal scholars, journalists and even a novelist-E.L. Doctorow, whose Book of Daniel used fact as a springboard to fiction. In 1975 the Rosenbergs' sons, Robert and Michael Meeropol (the name of their adoptive parents), published a memoir of their frightening childhoods. The appearance of We Are Your Sons coincided with a campaign to clear the Rosenberg name and with the Meeropols' successful suit to examine previously closed Government files...