Word: memoirize
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More than 40 years later, Hope recounts the numerous obstacles she and her classmates faced as female students at HLS in her new memoir, Pinstripes & Pearls: The Women of the Harvard Law Class of ’64 Who Forged an Old-Girl Network and Paved the Way for Future Generations...
Though she has plenty of advice to share, Hope says writing the 261-page memoir was no easy matter...
...Comix as memoir, covered in the last installment of TIME.comix, is just one of the many underused approaches to comicbook narrative. The adaptation of other media has become a lost genre in graphic literature. From the 1940s to the early 60s Gilberton Publications' "Classics Illustrated," featured "Stories by the World's Greatest Authors," as the tagline said. Since then, except for the mostly execrable "franchising" of sci-fi movies and TV series, comicbooks have done little exploring in the adaptation of other media. Of late it has been one publisher, the New York-based NBM (Nantier, Beall and Minoustchine) that...
...Chinese émigré authors who have adopted other languages have gained prominent seats in the world's literary pantheon. Dai Sijie's Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, written in French, was an immediate best-seller in France and won five prizes. Anchee Min's 1994 English-language memoir, Red Azalea, was named a "Notable Book" of the year by the New York Times, and Ji-li Jiang's Red Scarf Girl, also a memoir written in English, won a number of children's book awards in America, including a gold Parents' Choice Award in 1998. Jung Chang...
...When I finished my first English-language novel, Lili, in 1998, it took me three years to find an American publisher. During that time, agents and publishers suggested that I publish Lili as a biography or memoir instead of as fiction. The commercial success of Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai, Jung Chang's Wild Swans and Adeline Yeh Mah's Falling Leaves had proved that memoirs about China sell. When I refused to change categories, I was turned down. But when Ha Jin's novel Waiting became a best-seller in the U.S., my luck changed...