| The Duke de Saint-Simon, the diplomat and memoirist, described him as honourable, lovable, and unpretentious. |
| No former president has had a hankering to be more than a memoirist, or reputation burnisher. |
| He was a playwright and memoirist who clearly believed in a writer's artistic license to embroider. |
| Any reader who, after all this, still wants to read more about Deepwater Horizon should hope that Mr Allen has ambitions as a memoirist. |
| Purists may cavil at the liberties taken with scientific objectivity, but as a memoirist, he is a mensch, a prince among primates. |
| His eye for detail, his re-creation of dialogue, his ironic tone, his self-deprecation, all serve a memoirist well. |
