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Is there such a thing as memoir in any POV other than 1st person? I don't read much memoir, other than the "personal essays" I find in lit mags, and I don't read many of them. Last night I realized it's not the memoir genre I avoid, it's the 1st person narration.
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If it's a memoir, it's an autobiography so yeah, 1st person. If it's in 3rd person, it was written by someone else and therefore a biography, not a memoir.
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You want a whole book where someone talks about himself in the 3rd person? Beth thinks that sounds very annoying, so Beth wouldn't be very interested in it.
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I think I've read a couple of memoirs written in third person, but no name, writer or book, comes to mind. (Abraham Lincoln once wrote a biographical sketch where he consistently referred to himself as "A.", but that's not quite the same thing.)
First person narration seems an odd thing to be shy of...so many interesting works are written in it.
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