Memoir (disambiguation)

Memoir is a literary genre or a reminiscence, a subclass of autobiography.

Memoir may also refer to:

• Mémoire, in French culture, a (usually short and incisive) piece of writing allowing the author to show his or her opinion on a given subject
• Mémoires, a 1959 artist's book made by the French artist & theorist Guy Debord in collaboration with the Danish artist Asger Jorn
• Memoir '44, a light war-themed strategy board game

Autobiographical texts

• Memoir (John McGahern book), a 2005 autobiographical account of the childhood of Irish author John McGahern
• Memoirs (George F. Kennan book), a 1967 book that won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize
• Mémoires (Berlioz) (aka Mémoires de Hector Berlioz), an autobiography by French composer Hector Berlioz
• Mémoires, a 1959 artists' book by Guy Debord and Asger Jorn
• Memoirs: 1939–1993, a memoir written by the former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney

Longer publications of a professional society

For example:

• Memoirs and Proceedings of the Chemical Society, a scientific journal published at various times by the U.K. Chemical Society
• Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, a mathematical journal in which each memoir is normally a single, separately bound monograph

Music

• European Memoirs (aka Memoir), a 1982 jazz album by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
• Memoire (album) (or Memoire DX), the debut album by Japanese rock band Malice Mizer
• Memoirs (Rox album), the debut album by British singer Rox
• Memoirs (jazz album), a 1990 album by Paul Bley, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian

Other uses

• Memoirs v. Massachusetts, a 1966 U.S. Supreme Court obscenity case