Memoir on a postcard

Can you write your life story in just six words? That's the challenge Smith Magazine put to hundreds of writers and the responses ranged from John Banville's 'Should have lived more written less' to Blake Morrison's 'Womb. Bloom. Groom. Gloom. Rheum. Tomb'. The mini-memoirs have all been collected in a book, One Life, Six Words, What's Yours?