Augusten Burroughs wrote a memoir called Dry , and it's about his time in rehab.

And so I decided to write a book, a memoir, about this decade of my life.

That was a fair question because my memoir was simply how I found solutions that worked for me.

Now the Journal of the National Medical Association gave my memoir a full clinical review, which is very unusual.

Amy Chozick, a writer at large for The Times covering business, politics and media, is the author of the memoir Chasing Hillary.

So if a novel can be put into six words and a whole memoir can be put into six words, you don't need more than six words for a TEDTalk.

Forty years ago, a great American statesman, Dean Acheson, looked back at the excitement he felt in helping to build the post World War II order. Present at the Creation, he called his memoir.

The caveat consists in a plea that Israel made to the US. According to Bush s memoir, in the spring of 2007, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a blunt request of the US president regarding Syria s reactor George, I am asking you to bomb the facility.

For Obama, Africa so far chiefly remains a backdrop against which he defines his American identity. As he explained in his memoir Dreams from My Father , visiting his father s native Kenya for the first time made him feel more American and less African than ever.

Consider depression, the most common mental illness, which must be distinguished from the sadness, disappointment, or frustration we all experience in our lives. William Styron s 1989 memoir, Darkness Visible, rightly calls depression a weak word for a debilitating condition that is marked by hopelessness, helplessness, and dread.

Yet Khrushchev, isolated and in disgrace, continued to see a bond between himself and the great author. As Solzhenitsyn wrote in his memoir The Oak and the Calf as late as 1966, he Khrushchev sent me New Year s greetings which astonished me because I was on the brink of arrest.

It turns out, however, that Indian politicians are not the only ones vulnerable to seduction by the Indian miracle mafia. Former Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh reveals in a recent memoir that no less a personage than Margaret Thatcher was fascinated by an Indian godman, Chandraswami, whom she received in her office shortly after becoming Conservative Party leader.

BERKELEY It is difficult to read former US Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke s new memoir, The Courage to Act, as anything other than a tragedy. It is the story of a man who may have been the best prepared person in the world for the job he was given, but who soon found himself outmatched by its challenges, quickly falling behind the curve and never quite managing to catch up.

Moreover, Obama s approach to issues involving race has been fettered by his fear, expressed in his early memoir Dreams From My Father, of being perceived (even by his white mother) as an angry black. To his credit, however, he has been effective in navigating the racial thicket of Ferguson, Missouri, by turning the killing of an unarmed teenager into a focal point for national action to improve police methods.