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There are more than 50 biographies and memoirs featured in Books We Love, NPR's annual year-end reading guide. Check them all ...
Written with "lovely candour", this is a wonderfully enjoyable autobiography, said Peter York in Literary Review, evoking a "golden age" of journalism that has now "utterly vanished". John & Paul ...
NPR has rounded up more than 350 of our favorite books this year. Today, we're focusing on biographies and memoirs. It is year-end list season. And for your reading and gift-giving pleasure ...
Memoir vs autobiography vs biography all have the same purpose: to tell a person's true life story, but each in different ...
We’ve surveyed the publishing calendar and picked the must-read life stories of 2025—a list that encompasses both biography and memoir. If you find comfort or inspiration in reading about the ...
And a deep dive into what it truly means to be a sociopath. This year’s very best biographies and memoirs certainly cover some varied terrain, emotionally and otherwise. Fans of literary ...
Dozens of Black authors are turning their struggles, triumphs and unique journeys into Black memoirs that will inspire you all year long. From Hollywood matriarch Tina Knowles to civil rights ...
The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle Tometich This family memoir begins with a courtroom scene like no other. After a night in jail, Annabelle Tometich's mom is ...
CHANG: OK. Well, speaking of those filter tabs, I hear that today we are focusing on biographies and memoirs. Where do you want to start with that? LIMBONG: Well, all right. To be really - even if ...