mimi10v3First-person lives with unusual vantage points: writers, scientists, activists, wanderers, outsiders, and people remaking themselves under pressure. The best are valued for the mind on the page, not merely the events survived.
The recorded ratings average 6.3/10, with 1 perfect ten. Recurring authors include Augusten Burroughs, Frank McCourt, Norah Vincent.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
About the bookMaya Angelou’s debut memoir traces the formative years of a Black girl growing up in the segregated South and the American West. From the quiet, ordered world of her grandmother’s store…
9/10About a Person : MemoirThinking in Pictures
About the bookTemple Grandin, a distinguished animal scientist and autistic adult, offers a first-person account of her cognitive experience in this memoir. She describes her mind as a visual process…
8.5/10About a Person : MemoirOn the Lower Frequencies
About the bookErick Lyle’s memoir chronicles his years as a street-level activist in New York City, documenting the gritty reality of community organizing in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The book…
8.5/10About a Person : MemoirSpeak, Memory
About the bookSpeak, Memory is Vladimir Nabokov’s celebrated autobiographical memoir, originally published in 1951 as a collection of essays written between 1936 and 1951. The work traces the author’…
