He was born in Tando Jam town, Hyderabad District to school-teacher and poet Mohammad Yaqub Niaz in a house that would eventually have ten siblings,[1] including renowned Sindhi scholar Dr Fahmida Hussain.
Law College; he also started working as a part-time sub-editor at the weekly Sindh Observer to meet the expenses of education and boarding at the Jinnah Courts.
In 1969, after Yahya Khan's takeover as Chief Martial Law Administrator, Memon became one of the 303 officials summarily dismissed from service.
When Bhutto formed the Pakistan People's Party, he bought Hilal-i-Pakistan, a Sindhi daily, but shifted its place of publication from Hyderabad to Karachi.
"[6] He worked for the newspaper for six years until his resignation in 1977 when military-dictator General Zia ul-Haq imposed martial law in Pakistan.
A keen student of history, he made an unprecedented attempt to write a novel on the political developments and social conditions of Sindh in the post-Samma period.
His other works are Dakhan Maan Tho Sij Ubhre (The Sun Rises From the South - 1953), Sindh Ji Iqtasadi Tareekh (The Economic History of Sindh - 1958), Choond Amerki Afsana (Selected American Short Stories - 1958), Ai Dard Hali Ao (Oh Pain, Come Along - 1962), Muhinji Duniya Haikal Viyakul (My World, Lonely & Forlorn - 1988), Tuhinji Duniya Sabh Rang Sanwal (Your World, Blushing with Colours - 1989), Muhinji Duniya Mirgh Trishna (My World, Longing for Love - 1990).
[9] In his last days, he was rewriting his earlier book on the origin and evolution of Sindhi and trying to accommodate new findings during the past three decades.