Word: memoirize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...idea what a pleasure that is," says the man whose life story, including prior nuptials to starlets Ali MacGraw and Catherine Oxenberg, has inspired a film and a cartoon. "I wasn't impulsive this time," says Evans. "I waited over six months." Evans has just finished his second memoir, The Fat Lady Sang. In wife No.7, he says, "I finally found the last chapter...
...Japanese monster movies of the 1950s were one pop metaphor from the only people to have been the targets of an atom bomb. Barefoot Gen is another: a memoir (by writer-producer Keiji Nakazawa) of a boy's life in Hiroshima before and after the blast. Gen, on his way to school on Aug. 6, 1945, must become a man amid the city's charnel rubble. The stench of burning bodies will adhere to you; this is no movie for kids. It does have the awful poignancy of a national nightmare--and in cartoon form...
...Agee. Agee was a CIA officer who spent most of his 11-year career in Latin America. He resigned in 1969 and devoted himself to bringing down the agency for its alleged complicity with repressive Third World regimes. Engaging in what he termed "guerrilla journalism," Agee wrote a 1975 memoir, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, featuring a 24-page appendix made up of agents' names and operations. Later that year Richard Welch, a CIA station officer in Athens, was assassinated. Welch was not one of the agents outed in Agee's book (and his identity was not a well-kept...
...does the process of writing a novel differ from that of a memoir...
...stick to the facts. In fiction, you can kill a character and then you miss her and you can bring her back to life. It doesn’t work that way in memoir writing...