Memoirs Are More Popular Than Ever

Carolyn V. Hamilton
3 min readJul 2, 2024

Memoirs have gained immense popularity, and there are several reasons why they resonate with readers.

“Live with purpose, leave a Legacy” masthead for the Facebook Group, Aspiring Memoir Writers.
“Live with purpose, leave a Legacy” masthead for the Facebook Group, Aspiring Memoir Writers. —image created by the author

Reading memoirs allow us to see perspectives outside of our own.

By delving into someone else’s life experiences, we gain empathy and compassion.

We can come to understand the world and different cultures and the human struggles we are share.

About 6 years ago, when I started to actively work with memoir writers, I decided, “Why not start a Facebook group?”

Thus was born Aspiring Memoir Writers.

I was excited to attract my first 100 members.

That was nothing to what I feel now that the group has grown to over 4,500 members!

I’m thrilled to see how active they are, how interactive they are with each other, how many of them are now published authors!

How did I even fall into this “thing?”

Meme, “She was looking for adventure. What she found was shocking.” with covers of the memoir “Coming to Las Vegas.”
Graphic by the author

After I published my first memoir, Coming to Las Vegas, A true tale of sex, drugs & Sin City in the ’70s, it just seemed like one thing led to another.

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Carolyn V. Hamilton

Author, artist & adventuress with 3 decades in the real world of “Mad Men". She helps authors write and market their memoirs of life journeys and challenges.