Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet Based on over 100 hours of interviews with Fidel Castro conducted over three years, Fidel Castro: My Life is as close to a memoir as...

Adina Hoffman Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist’s eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged.Taha Muhammad Ali was born...

Virginia Woolf An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, "A Writer's Diary" was drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period...

Anne Lamott For a quarter century, more than a million readers—scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities—have been inspired by Anne Lamott’s hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins...

Shelly Spilka The story of an Israeli woman's struggle to forge her personal and professional identity. March 29, 2001 by State University of New York Press

Michaela and Elaine DePrince Orphaned by war, saved by ballet.Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, Michaela DePrince witnesses atrocities that no child ever should. Her father is killed by rebels...

Anonymous The remarkable memoir of an Iraqi woman who escaped from captivity in Baghdad and became America's leading undercover counter-terrorist expert. Here is the story of an anonymous counter-terrorism expert,...

Christie Tate The refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers—her...

Gershom Scholem Among the great innovators in Jewish thought in the twentieth century, Gershom Scholem stands on the highest level.  After fifty years of scholarship, he offers a memoir that...

Anwar el-Sadat  

Roger Cohen It has taken me a long time to piece all this together. Memories come not like heavy rain but the drops falling from leaves after it. There were...

Elie Wiesel In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the...