In its 17th year, the Memoir Book Group boasts of being perhaps the only original group still meeting and comprised of virtually the same members since the inception of the Library’s program many years ago! As our group’s name implies, we read memoirs and follow a rigorous formula of research and presentations by each member of our group. For our 10th anniversary, we edited a booklet of all of the books we’ve studied, including the hundreds of “almost-reads” over the years.

Led by Leslie de Galbert and Clydette de Groot.

• Knife, Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salmon Rushdie
• Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn
• Giving up the Ghost by Hilary Montel
• A Life LIke Other People’s by Alan Bennet
• Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure by Paul Auster
• Diplomats at War: Friendship and Betrayal on the Brink of the
• Vietnam Conflict by Charles Trueheart
• Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood by David Mamet

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