Collection: Autobiography & Memoir

A literary collection honoring and memorializing Selena, the Queen of Tejano. Thirty years after her death, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez remains a cherished figure of Mexican American...

The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved mother Barbara Chase-Riboud has...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • In this powerful work of nonfiction that takes up immigration and the strength of family, Edwidge...

Weaving ancestral wisdom with contemporary insight, Black Women Rising speaks directly to Black women’s lived realities of racial trauma, chronic stress, care fatigue, and resilience through a...

The action guide to building serious financial power. For too long, women have worked twice as hard to earn less than men, and women have...

The first biography of a preeminent postwar architect who championed the cause of freedom through architecture and transformed Black history and modernism J. Max Bond...

In the spirit of So You Want to Talk about Race and The Year of Living Biblically, a deeply personal and provocative narrative that unveils a progressive, largely ignored...

Great and Unfortunate Things is Jason Arday’s memoir of overcoming remarkable challenges and responding to adversity with resilience.Jason Arday grew up in a lively corner of...

Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—delivering an...

By the actress, singer, dancer, director, and author, an honest and impassioned memoir that spans from her childhood in Atlanta to her years with Alvin...

In this urgent and incisive reckoning, bestselling author Julissa Arce uses Bad Bunny’s rise to challenge what success really means—and makes the case that it...

In this groundbreaking work, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement offers a new perspective on the troubles facing Africa today....

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...

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.......