1.   He was a great and prolific writer of everything from poems and personal memoirs to dazzling essays on painting and photography.

2.   As with so many Southerners who have kept to the same turf for several generations, remote events are retold as personal memoir.

3.   Fans of nonfiction have a full fall ahead as well, with choices ranging from huge histories to intensely personal memoirs.

4.   Or even that she would write such a personal memoir, despite her longtime love of writing.

5.   The story remains too much of a personal memoir, and many readers will be troubled by the reliance on reconstructed conversations.

6.   There is a discourse on the decorative cuisine of Careme, savory personal memoirs of pot au feu and chowder and even imaginary recipes in cyberspace.

7.   Drawn from journals kept during the trip, her book is a travel guide, history text and personal memoir.