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There are three main differences:

(1) The autobiography is necessarily written by its subject. A memoir can be written by its subject, but more often is written by a close friend of the subject.

(2) The autobiography is usually about the whole history of its subject, whereas a memoir usually concerns a particular period or set of events in a person's life.

(3) The autobiography is supposed to be as truthful as opposed to memoirs which are fictionalized to a small degree.

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