Kate Mulgrew is an actor. She has acted on stage, in the movies, and on television. She may be best known as "Admiral Kathryn Janeway" on the TV show "Star Trek: Voyager" in the late 1990's and currently she's in the cast of "Orange is the New Black". She is one of those actors who always seems to have a part in something, she's always working. But as with any actor, what you see on the stage or the screen is only a piece of the real person. She's now an author, with a memoir, "Born With Teeth", which takes a look at her life, both in public and in private. However, I felt she wrote about herself at a bit of a remove.A "memoir" is not an "autobiography". It's shorter and covers - usually - less time in a person's life. Mulgrew's memoir is a self-selective look at a life-in-progress, with some parts left out or referred to but left unexplained. And that is a small problem - if you think it IS a problem - of Kate Mulgrew's memoir. I enjoyed her book, but, for instance, felt at times a bit "lost" when she would bring up her parents and birth family and refer to certain things - births, deaths (she lost two younger sisters) - but really never came back to them. I assumed her parents had marital problems, but never heard what happened to them. And since she wrote about them in an interesting fashion, the lack of follow-up left me wondering, what...? If the book wasn't as well-written as it was, I wouldn't care or be interested in others in her life. But the book was well-written and so I did wonder.One subject that Mulgrew seems to write fully about is the birth of her daughter when she was in her early 20's and the subsequent surrender of the child to a closed adoption. For years, Mulgrew wondered what happened to the child but was given the run-around by the Catholic group that handled the adoption. She went on to marry and have two sons, but always looked to be reunited with her daughter. Finally, she and the daughter found each other through the same group that had stone-walled her for 20 years. She writes touchingly about meeting her daughter.Something she included in the book, but probably shouldn't have, was a reference to an old friend of hers who had been sexually assaulted by her grandfather as a child. The friend, who had died years before, would probably not have wanted something so personal referred to in a book. Bad form.Again I want to emphasize that Mulgrew's book is a well-written look at an actor and how she balances her private and public lives. I just wish she had been a bit more inclusive.