Collection: Autobiography & Memoir

You walk into your doctor's office as one person.   You walk out as someone else.   That's what happened to Kenitra W. Dominguez when...

An ambitious and vast family history by the nephew of Soledad Brother author George Jackson and son of Black Panther martyr Jonathan Jackson, whose famous act of...

A gripping, deeply moving memoir of survival, education, and resistance by a student protestor–turned–political prisoner in post-revolution Egypt.“I will never be the same after reading Huna.”—Javier...

The art historian, poet, and novelist close-reads images, moving and still, canonical and lesser known, that have shaped her evolving identity as an American “Mulatta”...

In this inspiring memoir, a Black woman pilot leading the way for others shares her journey of fulfilling a lifelong dream to fly—and how she...

A gutting and powerful new memoir from a master of the form, Good, God probes Laymon's relationships with three generations of women in his life—his grandmother, his...

A rigorous account of the pivotal but little-studied civil rights leader Jamil Al-Amin, aka H. Rap Brown, stitches together new and profound connections. I Rise in...

TV star and New York Times bestselling author Devale Ellis shares everything he's learned as a dad raising four sons and explores the gifts that parenting has...

  "People always say I'm going to look back on these days and laugh -- why put it off?" When Angela Nissel found herself struggling...

The most decorated athlete in track and field history reveals how her journey to becoming a mother turned into the fight of her life—and pushed...

A heart-wrenching yet hopeful memoir of migration, motherhood, and Black womanhood from an NAACP Image Award-nominated writer who examines her Caribbean grandmother’s life to make...

“Part autobiography, part stand-up routine, part contemporary political analysis, and astute all over.... Reading this book made me both laugh and weep with poignant recognition.......

In a piercing blend of biography, criticism, and memoir, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Salamishah Tillet explores Nina Simone’s life and the impact of her legacy. In Nina...

A profound and poetic memoir, tracing the wounds that racism and colonialism have left on Black people across borders. With astute insight and immersive prose,...

Award-winning poet and performer Saul Williams explores how artists today must respond to systemic violence and injustice--in the words of Paul Robeson, by choosing sides.Songs...

Past and present collide in this posthumous, semiautobiographical masterpiece by the author of Beetlecreek.“One of the great novelists of the last 100 years.” —Ishmael Reed, author...

A beautifully edition of Frederick Douglass’s groundbreaking autobiography, one of the most powerful and enduring works in American literature. Elegantly designed for collectors, students, and...

The true story of how Laila Ali went from being the daughter of the beloved boxing champion Muhammad Ali to being an undefeated boxer herself,...

A profound exploration of the art and magic of writing by New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende.In this deeply personal and insightful book, Isabel Allende delves...

A dazzlingly inventive account of kinship and dispossession by a two-time Minnesota Book Award–winning authorIn his first work of nonfiction, poet chaun webster blends memoir,...

A portrait of Black life in the Great Plains, written by a key figure in the Chicago Renaissance and decades-long editor of Ebony. Era Bell Thompson...

In this biography, literary giant Maryse Condé recounts her early adult years in Guinea, Ghana, and Sénégal, set against the backdrop of their struggles for...

An updated and revised biography of Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Patrice Lumumba (1926-61) is perhaps the most...

A moving reflection on the author's father—plus a cat!—this is a beautiful short work of family history from one of our most beloved, iconic writers.Originally...