Word: memoirize
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...poems, and The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (1996), which Soyinka adapted from a lecture series he gave at Harvard. He has also written two well-reviewed autobiographical works, Aké: The Years of Childhood (1981) and Ibadan, The Penkelemes Years, A Memoir...
...says he wrote Ibadan, his second memoir which depicts his political coming-of-age, in a “white heat” of four weeks during his second period of exile because he didn’t know if he would survive the bitter conflict that was intensifying in Nigeria...
...watchers can observe, more intimately than ever, a man who is generally happiest observing. Newcomers to the "chronic non-joiner" may be tempted to turn to two essential, and more formal, companion books also published in recent years: The Donald Richie Reader and a reissue of his haunting travel-memoir, The Inland...
This isnota review of chronicles, Volume One, by Bob Dylan. Chronicles is a powerfully honest, engagingly written memoir by an extraordinarily important musician. It also contains not one nude scene starring Cher. If you want to learn about Tolstoy and Woody Guthrie, Chronicles is your book. But if you want intravenous drug use and mondo hard-core groupie sex, try some of the other rock memoirs published this month: Tommy Lee's Tommyland (Atria; 269 pages), Dave Navarro's Don't Try This at Home (ReganBooks; 253 pages) and Anthony Kiedis' Scar Tissue (Hyperion; 465 pages...
...rock world is a small one. Lee used to date Carmen Electra, who later married Navarro, who played in the Chili Peppers with Kiedis, whose memoir Scar Tissue, written with Larry Sloman, is more genuinely satisfying than either Lee's or Navarro's. Kiedis, we learn, grew up in Los Angeles, raised by his hard-partying, actor-slash-drug-dealer dad--and yes, was baby sat by a naked Cher. His appetite for pleasure was precocious and prodigious; he says he slept with his dad's girlfriend when he was 11 and snorted heroin...