As with Khrushchev and other companions, Mikoyan in his last days wrote frank but selective memoirs from his political career during Stalin's rule.

Mary MacLane (May 1, 1881 - August 1929) was a controversial Canadian-born American writer whose frank memoirs helped usher in the confessional style of autobiographical writing.

But from chaos, with help from the neighbors, she made this frank, funny, nonexploitative memoir.

Hervey wrote detailed and brutally frank memoirs of the court of George II from 1727 to 1737.

Whether she represents Zorina, Balanchine's second wife and an actress dancer who wrote a remarkably frank memoir, is more than possible.

The book itself is a frank, humorous memoir regarding a very public break-up, surviving infidelity - mixed with social media, and moving on in the aftermath.

Tilberis, who died last month at the age of 51, "sounds genuinely likable and down to earth" in this "frank, often moving and surprisingly funny memoir," Katherine Bouton wrote here in 1998.

The evidence can be found in Beauvoir's calculatedly frank memoirs and in the many letters between the two published after their deaths.

But instead of molding all this into 270 pages of scathing retribution or bitter self-pity, Cohen has written a frank, funny and unexploitative memoir.

Even if "Moscow Meets Madison Avenue" never becomes a film or even a television sitcom, Gary Burandt's experiences should gain a wider audience through this wry, frank memoir.