A Good Life (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ben Bradlee
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1921-1995
- Setting: Boston, Massachusetts; France; Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Ben Bradlee, Katharine Graham, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, Art Buchwald, Edward Bennett Williams
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Family or family life, Journalism or journalists, Politics, Authors or writers, Marriage, Writing, Vietnam War, Newspapers
- Locales: France, Boston, MA, Washington, D.C.
The differences between an autobiography and a memoir, though significant, concern primarily emphasis and degree. In autobiography the writer assumes that the life record holds interest and significance that transcend the present. The narrative establishes a record from a personal perspective in an effort to explain and justify the author’s deeds and ideas. In a memoir, events that are experienced firsthand and personages the writer encounters through life are deemed more important than the individual life. Ben Bradlee labels his book a memoir, though it clearly includes elements of...
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