Why do people write memoirs? For the same reasons we gossip, go to movies, read fiction and biographies and memoirs, attend the theater, follow the lives of celebrities or get wrapped up in soap ...

I wanted to post something a little out of the usual—about how it feels to write a memoir about a problem. In my case, a memoir about being a clutterbug. Memoirs of personal troubles are much in vogue ...

Ninety miles an hour, that’s how you live your life. Zooming here, careening around corners, racing to the next deadline, the next milestone, the next goal. Once in a while, you run out of fuel, but ...

In 2008, M.J. Flood and his wife, Tara, had a stillborn child. For years, the tragedy left him “emotionally stuck,” even after the births of two daughters, Charlotte, now 13, and Judith, now 9, Flood ...

Everyday commonalities and the anomalies burrowing within them are like catnip to best-selling writer Susan Orlean. The author of 12 award-winning books (among them, “The Orchid Thief,” “The Library ...

Author and journalist Ariel Sabar '93 spoke last night on "wrestling with meaning" in "Telling Personal Stories: Memoir as More Than Self Journalism," a lecture hosted by the English Department at ...

Poet E. Ethelbert Miller chair's the board of the Institute for Policy Studies and is the director of the African-American Resources Center at Howard University. He's also the author of a new memoir, ...

The co-writer of Virginia Giuffre's memoir has said it would be a mistake to think "the fetishisation of young girls" died with Jeffrey Epstein, as she detailed how Prince Andrew could still help with ...

Openly gay author Benoit Denizet-Lewis brings his observational writing to the world of pets with his recently published memoir, "Travels With Casey." Denizet-Lewis begins his work with "I don't think ...