Biography/Memoir
If you like biographies or memoirs, here is a great list for you to check out. (Updated September 2020)
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Dorothy Day
The life of a radical pacifist is seen in the context of a public life of arrests, anarchist identity, Catholic activism, protests against the arms race and capitalism, while being at the forefront of American dissent.
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In the Dream House
A uniquely structured memoir scrutinizes an abusive relationship at the intersection of her personal experience and societal assumptions of queer culture in a revealingly written exploration of sexuality and psychological power.
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His Truth Is Marching on
Based on decades of interviews with Lewis, a portrait emerges of a civil rights activist devoting his life to justice and equity for over half a century.
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The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
Fleeing as a child with her family from an African war, a memoir sees dislocation, assimilation, and adulthood through the lenses of folktales, American racism, and strength of family that ultimately demonstrates love and the persistence of hope.
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Olive the Lionheart
Drawing on secret diaries and letters, a British socialite who in 1910 heroically searches Africa for her missing fiancé reveals the political and sociocultural tensions of an era through a journey of thousands of adventuresome miles.
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In Pursuit of Disobedient Women
A journalist moves from New York to Central Africa, covering stories about the Boko Haram kidnappers among others, while juggling the effects of the move on her family and career.
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Inheritance
When an astounding family secret is revealed by a genealogy test, self-identity is explored in terms of the ethics of DNA testing and fertility treatments, as well as the meaning of paternity and love.
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Recollections of My Nonexistence
An influential writer and feminist describes her development and struggles while exploring the societal factors that were the catalysts of her personal and far-reaching publishing successes.
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Memorial Drive
Movingly told, when her estranged stepfather murders her mother, a mixed-race daughter must rise above the trauma and find healing, while developing as a future U.S. Poet Laureate.
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Chaucer
Tracing an eventful life across medieval Europe recreates a time in which a merchant’s son can rise to the role of a diplomat and courtier, and become one of the greatest figures of literature, the poet of The Canterbury Tales.
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