Commentary A memoir is supposed to be an accurate description of events that happened in the life of its author. However, it is not unusual to accuse the author of making up events to embellish his or her narrative. One website warned that memoirs could end up like a novel “with all the made-up parts left out”—it can fail to impress sometimes because it is either a novel in disguise, an autobiography, or even an academic text. Earlier this year, the memoir of celebrity chef Jock Zonfrillo, “Last Shot,” was heavily criticised because people who featured in the narrated events or traversed the life of the author, disagreed with his version of the narrative. Thus, a stoush—sometimes evolving into a real conflict situation—between the author of a “memoir” and those who are described in it, is always a real possibility. Authors who fail to understand the differences between a memoir, autobiography, …