Author Biographies and Memoirs
1. 
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by:
Maya Angelou
4.30 avg rating — 568,919 ratings 
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The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America
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Arnold Rampersad
4.49 avg rating — 215 ratings 6. 
The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1941-1967, I Dream a World
by:
Arnold Rampersad
4.53 avg rating — 79 ratings 
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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
by:
Valerie Boyd
4.36 avg rating — 1,135 ratings 12. 
The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century
by:
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.33 avg rating — 153 ratings 
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The Man Who Was Dr. Seuss: The Life and Work of Theodor Geisel
by:
Thomas C. Fensch
4.12 avg rating — 40 ratings 20. 
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Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept
by:
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.20 avg rating — 163 ratings 
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E. E. Cummings: The Growth of a Writer
by:
Norman Friedman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 29. 
Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Claude McKay: The Literary Identity from Jamaica to Harlem and Beyond liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Man Called White: The Autobiography of Walter White (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.21 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
by:
Les Standiford
3.63 avg rating — 3,846 ratings 
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Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and China Before and After
by:
Anna Wang Yuan
3.96 avg rating — 91 ratings 43. 
Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle For Identity
by:
Tyrone Tillery
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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No Pressure, No Diamonds: Mining for Gifts in Illness and Loss
by:
Teri A. Dillion
4.65 avg rating — 161 ratings 
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Goodbye Christopher Robin: A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh
by:
Ann Thwaite
3.41 avg rating — 722 ratings 49. 
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
by:
Caroline Fraser
3.94 avg rating — 19,447 ratings 
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Claude McKay, Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance: A Biography
by:
Wayne F. Cooper
3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings 
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The Story of Charlotte's Web: E.B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic
by:
Michael Sims
3.76 avg rating — 1,390 ratings 65. 
Derek Walcott (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature, Series Number 10)
by:
Edward Baugh
3.50 avg rating — 24 ratings 66. 
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Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over
by:
Geraldine Brooks
3.94 avg rating — 2,886 ratings 70. 
Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl
by:
Donald Sturrock
3.88 avg rating — 1,448 ratings 
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A Long Way From Home (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas
by:
Claude McKay
3.93 avg rating — 71 ratings 
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The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
by:
Claire Tomalin
3.74 avg rating — 1,774 ratings 
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Overlay: A Tale of One Girl's Life in 1970s Las Vegas
by:
Marlayna Glynn
4.03 avg rating — 1,463 ratings 83. 
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
by:
Timothy Egan
4.11 avg rating — 9,933 ratings 
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Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink
by:
Nita Sweeney
3.72 avg rating — 1,921 ratings 96. 
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by:
Nancy Milford
3.91 avg rating — 9,507 ratings 
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Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter
by:
Matthew Dennison
3.58 avg rating — 518 ratings 100. 
Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink
by:
Nita Sweeney
3.72 avg rating — 1,921 ratings