: Re: Should I call my book a memoir if it also has some autobiographical elements? I asked a similar question on here and am updating a manuscript I initially wrote for a friend six years ago.

The consensus within the publishing world is to treat autobiography as a top-level genre (any instance where the writer is writing about their own life) and treat memoir as a sub-genre within it.

So if your book includes any specific memories or thematic material, then it would qualify as a memoir. Also, the autobiography label is typically reserved for celebrities or other well-known people. Nonfiction writing about everyday people tends to be classified as memoir.

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