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Autobiography
Memior

Memoirs are different from autobiographies because instead of focusing on the writer's lives, it focuses on their personality.

A memoir is a personal account of an event or a collection of events. Like an autobiography, it is written by someone about their own experiences. A memoir is not as comprehensive as an autobiography. A memoir describes the narrator's feelings and personal conflicts during a time period. A famous example is the story //Memoirs of a Geisha//, a translated story of a former Japanese Geisha's training to become (and later, accomplishments as) a geisha.