Memoir or biography: what’s the difference?

So a biography is really an A to Z, birth to death kind of illustration of who somebody was. It includes the details of their childhood, their young adulthood, their life in total. A memoir, on the other hand, tends to focus on a specific area of somebody’s life, be that their career, their achievements, their philanthropy, and there’s no right or wrong answer as to which is better to write. I have written both for my clients, and I have no opinion about which is better. They’re both valid forms of legacy writing. And the main difference is that a memoir chooses a theme, and it is centered around that theme.

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