Do you know what is the difference between memoirs and auto-biographies? Well, memoirs are short episodes of the life of a person told in the first person. Biography is the entire life of a person told in the first person. When you write about your 1-year stay in Egypt, it will be a memoir, whereas when you write about your entire life., from birth to current events, it is autobiography. Between memoirs and autobiographies, what do you like to read more?