# Memoir & Autobiography

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Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:35.978Z
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## Summary

Autobiography is the story of a life. Memoir is the story of a moment, a relationship, a question, an obsession — told from inside a life. Auto-fiction is the recognition that the story we tell about ourselves was never simply true. Key sections include: Memoir & Autobiography.; Opening What we mean.; Chapter I The first Confessions.; Chapter II 1782.; Chapter III Spiritual lives.; Chapter IV The American slave narrative.; Chapter V Modernist memoir.; Chapter VI Speak, Memory.; Chapter VII Mary McCarthy.; Chapter VIII 1990s memoir..

## Slide Outline

1. Memoir & Autobiography.
2. Opening What we mean.
3. Chapter I The first Confessions.
4. Chapter II 1782.
5. Chapter III Spiritual lives.
6. Chapter IV The American slave narrative.
7. Chapter V Modernist memoir.
8. Chapter VI Speak, Memory.
9. Chapter VII Mary McCarthy.
10. Chapter VIII 1990s memoir.
11. Chapter IX The Liars' Club.
12. Chapter X Angela's Ashes.
13. Chapter XI This Boy's Life.
14. Chapter XII Vivian Gornick.
15. Chapter XIII The ethics of memoir.
16. Chapter XIV The truth question.
17. Chapter XV The Year of Magical Thinking.
18. Chapter XVI Just Kids.
19. Chapter XVII The Argonauts.
20. Chapter XVIII The Art of Memoir.
21. Chapter XIX Annie Ernaux.
22. Chapter XX Beyond English.
23. Chapter XXI The trauma memoir.
24. Chapter XXII Illness memoir.
25. Chapter XXIII Celebrity vs. literary.
26. Chapter XXIV The form's expansion.
27. Chapter XXV The diary cousin.
28. Chapter XXVI Twenty-eight works.
29. Chapter XXVII Watch & read.
30. Closing What memoir asks.
31. The end of the deck.

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