Most important, does the memoir reveal significant new information about famous figures or history-making episodes?

Her detailed memoirs written in a lively style reveal her independence of mind.

Fidel Castro's memoirs won't reveal the many secrets he knows.

We expect memoirs to reveal secrets that fiction delicately masks.

His memoir reveals how overburdened the system is, and how the best intentions do not always save the helpless.

An unpublished autobiographical memoir, kept from 1686 till near his death, and running to some half a million words, reveals a florid fantasy life.

Unfortunately, his memoir reveals little beneath the surface of the court transcripts and tape-recorded interviews.

The memoir reveals this double life and persuades the reader to live it.

He is also, as his memoirs reveal, impeccably English.

The memoir revealed little that was not already known about Blunt.