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   cburr Teacher
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   I'm not sure what statement you are referring to, but a memoir is a type of autobiography.  Specifically, memoirs are usually reminiscences about a person's life and the events they experienced, and they often focus on public aspects of their life rather than deeply personal matters.  For example, a diplomat might write about all the famous people they worked with and the inside scoop on important foreign policy decisions.

   Gore Vidal, in his own memoir, made the following distinction between a memoir and a formal autobiography:

   "A memoir is how one remembers one's own life, while an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double-checked."

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   http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/memoir?qsrc=2888

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   Posted by cburr on Tuesday March 10, 2009 at 11:43 AM