Memoir (disambiguation)

Memoir is a literary genre or a reminiscence, a subclass of autobiography.

Memoir may also refer to:

Autobiographical texts

  • Memoir (John McGahern book), a 2005 autobiographical account of the childhood of Irish author John McGahern
  • Memoirs (Kennan book), a 1967 book that won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize
  • Mémoires (Berlioz) (aka Mémoires de Hector Berlioz), an autobiography by French composer Hector Berlioz
  • Mémoires, a 1959 artists' book by Guy Debord and Asger Jorn
  • Memoirs: 1939–1993, a memoir written by the former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney

Longer publications of a professional society

For example:

  • Memoirs and Proceedings of the Chemical Society, a scientific journal published at various times by the U.K. Chemical Society
  • Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, a mathematical journal in which each memoir is normally a single, separately bound monograph

Music

Other uses

  • Mémoire, in French culture, a (usually short and incisive) piece of writing allowing the author to show his or her opinion on a given subject
  • Mémoires, a 1959 artist's book made by the French artist and theorist Guy Debord in collaboration with the Danish artist Asger Jorn
  • Memoir '44, a light war-themed strategy board game
  • Memoirs v. Massachusetts, a 1966 U.S. Supreme Court obscenity case
  • Memoir (horse)
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