A number of authors have used their pen to help their grieving after the loss of someone close. Among these are some well-known authors like Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre; there are still others who, while less well-known, their writings are not without interest: Anne Philipe or Michel Ragon. Insofar as their efforts to trace, with their unique sensibilities and literary licence, life bereft of a close one, these writings constitute autobiographies. These writings, often known as Memoirs, can help with our mourning of previous decades. The author engages in this process not only through her selection of texts but also through her selection of events told through these texts.