first-person accounts

• memoirWritten personal recollection
• testimonySworn statement as evidence
• diaryPersonal daily record
• journalRecord of daily events
• eyewitnessOne who saw events

narrative · confession · autobiography · personal · experience · recollection · memory · storytelling · survivor · witness · oral · history · interview · letter · voice · perspective · intimate · raw

• memoirsmemoir, memoirs, autobiography, autobiographies, life story
• Autobiographiesautobiographies, memoirs, personal memoirs, life stories, personal narratives
• literary journalismcreative nonfiction, longform, gonzo journalism, narrative nonfiction, Tom Wolfe