Collection: Autobiography & Memoir

Whiting award-winning poet and Distinguished Chair of Humanities at MIT, Dr. Joshua Bennett creates a masterful synthesis of personal narrative and history that illuminates the...

An inspiring and profoundly moving story about speaking up for yourself and creating healthy spaces from acclaimed CEO, author, and activist Bellen Woodard, creator of...

  Television writer, producer, and bestselling author of the acclaimed The Broke Diaries and Mixed charts her unexpected role as her terminally ill mother's caretaker in this funny, moving,...

For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consequential presidential campaigns...

In this part-memoir, part-manifesto at the intersection of personal grief and political resistance, an acclaimed poet and policy strategist leans on Black radical literary traditions...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking The New Jim Crow comes a tender, thought-provoking memoir about the pursuit of justice and meaning, challenging each of...

We all have the power to make meaningful change! This story about one step in the civil rights movement – the Montgomery Bus Boycott –...

A reissue of Sammy Davis Jr.’s 1965 autobiography, Yes I Can chronicles this entertainment icon’s rise to stardom, and his career-spanning pursuit of racial justice, with a...

In trying times, our nation demands more of us. It is time for good trouble.Senator Cory Booker captivated Americans across the political spectrum in early...

Blending mythology and memory, Saga Boy follows a young Black immigrant's vibrant personal metamorphosis. Growing up as a clever, willful boy in a tiny village in the...

A pioneering manifesto from Brazil about the centrality of sex workers to feminist struggle. As long as feminism has existed as a movement in Brazil,...

Mic check! Learn to count with 2Pac in the Legends of Hip-Hop board book series.   In this accessible series perfectly crafted for babies (and...

An incisive, intimate diary of the life of a travesti sex worker in Brazil, with a foreward by Charlotte Shane So What If I'm a...

In this vulnerable and enlightening book of life lessons, globally renowned performer Cynthia Erivo draws from her singular experience to show us how to embrace...

Grammy Award–winning R&B and hip-hop legend Teddy Riley recounts his journey from growing up in the projects in Harlem to inventing the genre New Jack...

An electrifying memoir about the demise of a singular family—a stunning new book by Gabrielle Hamilton, author of the New York Times bestseller and James Beard Award...

We stay fighting, even if we don't call it war. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is a poet's memoir about family, survival, and...

  Fiery, funny, inviting and digressive, Sonny Simmons' memoir is a long overdue celebration of the famed New York free jazz pioneer Though his years...

Redressing the woeful under-recognition of a pioneering Black queer architect and artist This is an experimental illustrated reader exploring the work and legacy of American...

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the...

A moving, politically-charged memoir of surviving trauma and embracing the power of activism from MSNBC legal analyst and former New York City Mayoral candidate Maya...

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERMemoir meets craft master class in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of how we think and write about intimate experiences—“a must...

How neurotypical hegemony reproduces a culture of exclusion--and how to overcome this with love, hope, and solidarity Ableism is embedded in our daily lives. Social...

From the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses: a brilliant, unflinching memoir about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3...