Memoir Vs. Auto Biography

[Nomad]

Memoir focuses on certain events or time period in first person narrative, where as autobiography is your entire life in first person narrative. Between these two genres, what do you like to read and what do you like to write?

[Jason]

Memoir focuses on certain events or time period in first person narrative, where as autobiography is your entire life in first person narrative. Between these two genres, what do you like to read and what do you like to write?

I think I would prefer a memoir because I wouldn't want to cover everything in my whole life.

However, I don't really know because I haven't even attempted it.