A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately say "memoir" now when it's a person writing about their own life.
A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.
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