Is memoir writing an attempt at redemption, or an act of revenge?

There are also going to be a lot of hair-raising, revealing, and probably quite lucrative memoirs written.

How Julia Child mastered the art of French cooking, a memoir written with her great-nephew.

(memoir written by John Bruce in 1865 edit.)

It's no news, of course, that so many recent memoirs, good and bad, well or execrably written, deal with hurt and healing.

A tiny memoir on the history of food at the famous restaurant, written by the proprietor since 1967.

In the first volume his memoirs, published in 1951, Hoover wrote:

A "lively memoir" written by the Soviet musician and first violinist of the Borodin Quartet, covering the period between 1945 and 1975.

With the Old Breed, a memoir of the battle written by Eugene Sledge.

Islands of the Damned, a memoir including the battle written by Romus Burgin.