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  2. What Is a Six-Word Memoir? The Brief but Powerful Story of ...

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    Enter the six-word memoir. This Hemingway-inspired writing exercise has made the rounds from universities to blogs to creative-writing contests. Find out what makes the perfect mini-memoir, and ...

  3. Life writing - Wikipedia

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    Life writing is an expansive genre that primarily deals with the purposeful recording of personal memories, experiences, opinions, and emotions for different ends. While what actually constitutes life writing has been up for debate throughout history, it has often been defined through the lens of the history of the autobiography genre as well as the concept of the self as it arises in writing.

  4. Six-Word Memoirs - Wikipedia

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    Not Quite What I Was Planning was listed as a New York Times bestseller in 2008 in the "advice, how to and miscellaneous" category. [4]In April 2009, The Denver Post listed Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak as the 5th bestselling non-fiction paperback in the Denver area according to sales at the Tattered Cover Book Store, Barnes & Noble in Greenwood Village, the Boulder Book Store, and ...

  5. Biography - Wikipedia

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    Biographical research is defined by Miller as a research method that collects and analyses a person's whole life, or portion of a life, through the in-depth and unstructured interview, or sometimes reinforced by semi-structured interview or personal documents. [24] It is a way of viewing social life in procedural terms, rather than static terms.

  6. Essay - Wikipedia

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    The word essay derives from the French infinitive essayer, "to try" or "to attempt". In English essay first meant "a trial" or "an attempt", and this is still an alternative meaning. The Frenchman Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) was the first author to describe his work as essays; he used the term to characterize these as "attempts" to put ...

  7. Review: 'Still No Word From You,' a memoir that redefines the ...

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    Peter Orner's 'Still No Word From You' melds memoir and criticism and, in the process, brings reading to life as a multi-sensory, communal experience. Review: 'Still No Word From You,' a memoir ...

  8. How Oprah Winfrey knew it was time to end her talk show: 'It ...

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    "When I ended the Oprah show, I knew it was time to end it. I could feel that coming for at least four to five years. It was getting to the point where I needed to bring it to an end, because it ...

  9. Memoir - Wikipedia

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    This kind of memoir refers to the idea in ancient Greece and Rome, that memoirs were like "memos", or pieces of unfinished and unpublished writing, which a writer might use as a memory aid to make a more finished document later on. The Sarashina Nikki is an example of an early Japanese memoir, written in the Heian period.