Run With The Hunted
Anthology of stories, novels, and poems.
autobiographies
Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir
D. J. Waldie’s account of growing up in the 1950s in Lakewood, then California’s largest planned suburb.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Autobiography based on a series of in-depth interviews journalist Alex Haley conducted between 1963 and Malcolm X’s 1965 assassination.
Little House in the Big Woods
Autobiographical children’s novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Double Helix
Autobiographical account of the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA written by James D. Watson and published in 1968. It has earned both critical and public praise, along with continuing controversy about credit for the Nobel award and attitudes towards female scientists at the time of the discovery.
Up from Slavery
1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington . The book describes his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing vocational schoolsmost notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabamato help Black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps
Berlin Diary
First-hand account of the rise of Nazi Germany and its road to war, as witnessed by the American journalist William L. Shirer
Dreams from My Father
Memoir by Barack Obama that explores the events of his early years in Honolulu and Chicago until his entry into Harvard Law School in 1988. Obama originally published his memoir in 1995, when he was starting his political campaign for the Illinois Senate
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Autobiographical memoir by writer Vladimir Nabokov
Hons and Rebels
Autobiography by political activist Jessica Mitford, which describes her aristocratic childhood and the conflicts between her and her sisters Unity and Diana, who were ardent supporters of Nazism