The later 1990s and early 2000s were dominated by commercial memoir publishing.

Evidence

The 1990s that Amis was observing starred numerous blockbuster memoirs, including those penned by first-time and unknown authors (“nobody memoirs”). Alongside Angela’s Ashes, The Liar’s Club, and Tuesdays with Morrie came Running with Scissors, Reading Lolita in Tehran, and Eat, Pray, Love. Celebrities, public figures, and nobodies vehiculating via memoir into public stature all found success in the form, as did so many established novelists that the New York Times complemented its assessment of the genre’s dominance with appraisal of its heights, calling the late 1990s and early 2000s “the age of the literary memoir.” — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 158

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to reader’s goal of identifying immediacy features in real works; the memoir boom is one concrete manifestation.