[stylist] Memoirs and autobiographies

[Lynda Lambert]

I guess it sounds immoral to say that it is a lie? Not at all. Lies are 
delightful, and that is why we write; and why we love literature.

The memoir is greatly enhanced accounts of a  truth  - it is a glorius lie 
that we tell when writing our story. Our glorious lie is the story we have 
woven together from the fragments of our memory, imagination, and our 
research into details that we do not remember at all. The true facts mingle 
with these other aspects to for the woven tapestry of the story we are 
telling.
Otherwise, we would just be a newspaper writer and give the "facts, m'aam, 
just the facts."

Lynda