Word: memoirize
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...Fuller (Scribbling the Cat) and Nobel laureate Doris Lessing, Zimbabwe's troubles seem to prove that you need to suffer for your art. But those authors are white, and Zimbabwe is a country of millions of blacks, whose troubles have undoubtedly been worse. So do we really need another memoir by a white Zimbabwean...
...they detained him last year because they feared he would collude with other suspects. Chen has maintained that he is a victim of "political persecution" by the ruling Kuomintang (KMT), which favors closer ties with China. During his detention, Chen has gone on prolonged hunger strikes and wrote a memoir to draw sympathy for his case. His defense team asserts that rules regarding political expense funds and donations have always been vague, and that Chen is innocent...
Kathy Griffin isn't shy. The comedian and host of her own Bravo reality show, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, is known for off-color remarks and self-deprecating humor. Her tell-all memoir, Official Book Club Selection - brazenly named, Griffin says, in hopes that Oprah will pick it for her book club or at the very least invite Griffin onto the show - catalogs the outrageous redhead's decades-long struggle to make it in Hollywood, her slow climb to the middle and all the claw marks she left along the way. Griffin talks to TIME about...
Kennedy, Senator Ted • behavior of at Chappaquiddick is described as "inexcusable" in posthumous memoir by • complaint by Mike Huckabee that politicizing the death of "defies good taste" goes ignored by Mike Huckabee • George H. W. Bush is the only living President who couldn't be bothered to attend the funeral of • heartfelt tributes...
...Ridge, who now works at his own consulting firm, Ridge Global, writes in his book, with co-author Lary Bloom, that he finally decided to pen a political memoir because "I thought my fellow citizens and public officials needed to know about what happened, what ought to have happened, and what we must do in the future to secure America and to raise the issue of security well above politics." It is an ambitious task for a 280-page book, but Ridge seems to touch on all of the highlights - the bureaucratic turf battles, the political pressures, the massive challenge...