11.   And in Limerick itself, everybody is writing a memoir.

12.   At one point Drabble thought about writing a memoir, she said, as her husband recently did about his family.

13.   At his death, he was writing his memoirs and had sent Buckley the first chapter, asking for comment.

14.   At one time, politicians wrote their memoirs toward the end of their careers, when, presumably, the price of honesty was much lower.

15.   At the end of his career, his powers diminished, his will to live ebbing, Johnson again persuaded a reluctant Kearns to help him write his memoirs.

16.   Between directorial assignments, Blakemore has been writing a memoir, and has not yet arrived at the National years.

17.   A fellow Japanese naval veteran, Sadaichi Fukui, said that although Sakamaki wrote his memoirs, he did not speak much about his war experiences.

18.   A graceful sportswriter for The Washington Post, Gildea has written a memoir about growing up in Baltimore that can legitimately be described as Bakeresque.

19.   Actors should take pause before writing a memoir.

20.   After all, Franklin D. Roosevelt left no diaries or correspondence, Jacqueline Kennedy wrote no memoir, and Bess Truman burned her letters.