On the literary genre spectrum, memoirs and autobiographies are right next to each other. They’re both nonfiction accounts of the author’s personal experience, usually written in first person (i.e.

Activist and scholar Angela Davis has released a new edition of her 1974 autobiography, first published and edited by Toni Morrison nearly 50 years ago. The book details Davis’s remarkable early life, ...

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to win Wimbledon, run The Washington Post, or get drunk with Jimmy Buffett? Through the best autobiographies and celebrity memoirs, we can access gripping true ...

In her new novel, “An Autobiography of Skin,” Lakiesha Carr tells the stories of three contemporary Black women, each struggling with different manifestations of trauma. By Ladee Hubbard When you ...

For an industry that has spun countless rags-to-riches tales over the past four decades, it’s hardly surprising that the rapper-penned memoir overshadows all other entries in the hall of fame for ...

“Naturally,” Morrissey writes in the most Morrissey of ways in the first paragraph of his autobiography, “my birth almost kills my mother, for my head is too big…” The opening paragraph that contains ...

In 1968, the celebrated author of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” arrived at Hamilton College to teach and work on his magnum opus, “Roots.” Now, on the centenary of his birth, a former student ...

In a new book, Pope Francis said he feels “all right” despite his illnesses. “The reality is, quite simply, that I am old,” he says in “Hope: The Autobiography”, which was co-written with the Italian ...