0 a book or other piece of writing based on the writer's personal knowledge of famous people, places, or events -- 传记，传略
The writers of memoirs were not oblivious to their tense relation to history.
Others have utilised personal memoirs, popular media and oral histor ies to equally good effect.
Musical memoirs are only expected from famous conductors, soloists and 'celebrities'.
The natural exigencies of participation in eighteenth-century conspiracy necessarily militated against record-keeping and memoirs of this kind.
The extended excer pts from the memoirs not only f lout the literary conventions of traditional historiography.
The two revolts are covered in detail in the memoirs, 49-62.
What the editors have categorized as ' memoirs ' constitute the collection's eighth chapter.
Indeed, it is extraordinary how many memoirs dwell on the manner of his dress.
