memoir has definitions from the field of writing
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[ noun ] (writing) an account of the author's personal experiences

Used in print

(Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)

It is not that the facts of the persecution were unavailable ; most_of the information elicited in Jerusalem had been brought to the surface by the numerous War_Crimes tribunals and investigating commissions , and by reports , memoirs , and survivors ' accounts .

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autobiography

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[ noun ] (writing) an essay on a scientific or scholarly topic

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essay

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