Overview
About the event
We Love Memoirs was set up on August 31st, 2013, by two memoir authors, Victoria Twead and Alan Parks, who wanted to create a place where memoir readers and authors could come together and chat.
Victoria Twead is a New York Times bestselling author of �??Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools�?� and the �??Old Fools�?� series, while Alan Parks is the author of �??Seriously Mum, What�??s an Alpaca?�?� and the �??Seriously Mum�?� series. Victoria and Alan were determined to foster a warm community and have always discouraged authors from pushing their own books at readers.
The results have been astounding, and WLM has grown quickly. New friendships are formed every day, and WLM meet-ups across the globe have become common. Small wonder that the We Love Memoirs community �?? which can be found here �?? is often described as �??the friendliest group on Facebook�?�.
Not only is it important to understand the history of We Love Memoirs Day, but it helps to know about the history of the memoir itself. This can be dated to 397 AD, when The Confessions of Saint Augustine was written by St. Augustine of Hippo. He used this as an opportunity to tell the world about his sins. Ever since then, getting to know a stranger intimately is something that we have all had a bit of an obsession with, especially when this stranger is someone famous or has been involved in a well-known incident.
