Collection: Autobiography & Memoir

Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the...

"All I can say is that I'm a shaker-upper. That's exactly what I am." --Shirley Chisholm   When Shirley Chisholm announced her candidacy for the...

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was...

He Never Came Home is a collection of 22 personal essays written by girls and women who have been separated from their fathers by way of...

New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As...

The never-before-told story of the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh--icons who changed each other and the world   The day...

A collection of the very first, the very last, and the very best interviews conducted with Prince over his nearly 40 year career.   There...

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by...

"I write about people who do extraordinary things. It just turned out that it was called science fiction." - Octavia E. Butler   Octavia E....

"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance."--bell hooks   bell...

What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection,...

In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a "national treasure") details...

A compelling reckoning with the birth of women's health that illuminates the sacrifices of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it--until now For...

The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman back through American history, from the foundational trauma of the...

The first critical examination of death and remembrance in the digital age--and an invitation to imagine Black digital sovereignty in life and death.   In Resurrecting...

For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded...

Debut. A funny, heartwarming, and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks,...

**Includes an exclusive WORTHY affirmation Mirror Decal with each purchase while supplies last** A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and...

By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring...

In this classic work--a blend of memoir, social criticism, and political analysis that remains relevant today--the first Black Congresswoman to serve in American history, New...

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John   "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is...

A spirited picture book biography about Althea Gibson, the first black Wimbledon, French, and U.S. Open tennis champion, from debut author Megan Reid and Coretta...

An eloquent and moving personal account of art and exile from award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat "Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what...

An unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies.In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf,...