Collection: Autobiography & Memoir

Ralph Lemon (born 1952) is one of the most significant figures to emerge from New York’s downtown dance and performance world in the past 40...

How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces...

Ida B. Wells was one of the foremost crusaders against black oppression. This engaging memoir tells of her private life as mother of a growing...

“I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write....

The “brilliantly wry” (Lena Dunham) and “lovably awkward” (Mindy Kaling) New York Times bestseller from the creator of HBO’s Insecure.In this universally accessible New York Times bestseller named for her...

  A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other PartiesIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly...

“Anyone striving to understand and improve this country should read her story.” — Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the RoadThe Emmy Award–winning journalist and anchor...

In the vein of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist and Issa Rae’s The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, but wholly its own, a provocative, humorous, and, at times, heartbreaking collection...

R. Eric Thomas didn’t know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went—whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high...

The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage....

When The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America—and it remains both a...

A collectible hardcover edition of the landmark book about being Black in America, featuring an introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the #1 New York Times bestselling author...

One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming...

In her first posthumous work, the revered poet crafts a personal history of Black dance and captures the careers of legendary dancers along with her...

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.  In the stirring,...

Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner, now available in paperback with 7 all-new poems.Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always...

First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde's experience with breast cancer and mastectomy. Long before...

New York Times bestseller, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, Lambda Literary Award winner A best book of 2017: Time  NPR  People  Elle  The Washington Post  The Los Angeles Times  The Chicago Tribune  Newsday  St....

In I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying Bassey Ikpi explores her life—as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a Black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an...

“A vibrant memoir of race, violence, family, and manhood…a virtuosic wail of a book” (The Boston Globe), Survival Math calculates how award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson survived the...

A Finalist for the NAACP Image Award A Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of...

An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United StatesWhen Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her...