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01/09/13 06:47

Three posts ago, instead of "memoir" I should have used the word "autobiography" - it would have been funnier - but I didn't want to send my young readers to the Wiktionary.

I've been claiming for years that the memoir knocked the travel book practically out of the bookstore, but its real crime has been to kill off the autobiography. Autobiographies were once written in a state of reflection by accomplished men and women in the latter stages of their life. In our relentlessly democratic day, the memoir reigns, written as it is by anyone at anytime. As with poems, there are some great ones but there are also a lot of duds.

Not only has the autobiography disappeared, but its disappearance has gone unnoticed. There have been countless essays on the purported death of the novel - which continues to thrive - yet none that I've seen on the actual death of the autobiography. It's time for either its rebirth (unlikely) or its obituary.

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