Female Authors' Biographies/Memoirs

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High Heels & Beetle Crushers
High Heels & Beetle Crushers 4.46 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Lucky
Lucky 3.77 avg rating — 101,355 ratings
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An Open Book
An Open Book 3.84 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Five Egyptian Pounds The story of George Said
Five Egyptian Pounds The story of George Said 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Time Without Clocks
Time Without Clocks 3.72 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The River and the Sea: A Story of Forgiveness
The River and the Sea: A Story of Forgiveness 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth
Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth 4.38 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women 3.94 avg rating — 1,839 ratings
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Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me 3.98 avg rating — 32,638 ratings
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Last Girl Standing
Last Girl Standing 4.04 avg rating — 385 ratings
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The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family 3.91 avg rating — 13,806 ratings
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The valley and the farm
The valley and the farm really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters 3.29 avg rating — 2,663 ratings
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Lamb Of Legacy
Lamb Of Legacy 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers 3.91 avg rating — 2,229 ratings
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir 4.25 avg rating — 22,439 ratings
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A Widow's Story
A Widow's Story 3.75 avg rating — 4,174 ratings
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All of Us There
All of Us There 4.08 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter 3.58 avg rating — 518 ratings
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love 3.89 avg rating — 45,334 ratings
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Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood 3.78 avg rating — 459 ratings
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Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates
Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates 3.88 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Wheels Within Wheels
Wheels Within Wheels 4.22 avg rating — 540 ratings
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Beyond the Rock
Beyond the Rock 3.83 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer
Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer 3.84 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Zelda
Zelda 3.82 avg rating — 10,362 ratings
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Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle 4.06 avg rating — 4,432 ratings
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In Search Of Mary Shelley
In Search Of Mary Shelley 3.63 avg rating — 850 ratings
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One Writer's Beginnings
One Writer's Beginnings 4.07 avg rating — 4,047 ratings
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Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography
Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography 4.12 avg rating — 609 ratings
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Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life
Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life 3.92 avg rating — 2,565 ratings
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The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom
The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom 3.58 avg rating — 114 ratings
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America Day by Day
America Day by Day 4.04 avg rating — 508 ratings
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A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South
A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South 4.29 avg rating — 350 ratings
35.
Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre
Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre 3.85 avg rating — 765 ratings
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A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing 4.29 avg rating — 838 ratings
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A Very Easy Death
A Very Easy Death 4.05 avg rating — 13,266 ratings
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My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives
My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives 3.97 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Margaret Mitchell & John Marsh: The Love Story Behind Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell & John Marsh: The Love Story Behind Gone With the Wind 4.14 avg rating — 180 ratings
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To Fall in Love, Drink This: A Wine Writer's Memoir
To Fall in Love, Drink This: A Wine Writer's Memoir 3.83 avg rating — 438 ratings
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No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton
No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton 3.73 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage
Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage
by: Tori Amos
3.90 avg rating — 2,466 ratings
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Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature 4.21 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir 4.18 avg rating — 1,768 ratings
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The Passion of Ayn Rand
The Passion of Ayn Rand 3.77 avg rating — 1,835 ratings
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And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life
And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life 3.88 avg rating — 652 ratings
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Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted
Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted 3.87 avg rating — 1,144 ratings
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Catching the Light
Catching the Light
by: Joy Harjo
4.32 avg rating — 434 ratings
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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes 4.05 avg rating — 3,164 ratings
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If I Can Cook/You Know God Can: African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes
If I Can Cook/You Know God Can: African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes 3.91 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love
Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love 3.97 avg rating — 942 ratings
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A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home 4.02 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers
The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers 4.23 avg rating — 669 ratings
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Dimestore: A Writer's Life
Dimestore: A Writer's Life
by: Lee Smith
3.87 avg rating — 3,402 ratings
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Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton
Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton 3.97 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
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Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature
Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature 3.87 avg rating — 655 ratings
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Ayn Rand and the World She Made
Ayn Rand and the World She Made 3.85 avg rating — 1,606 ratings
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A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert 3.79 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor 3.97 avg rating — 1,638 ratings
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Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing 3.79 avg rating — 8,737 ratings
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Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson
Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 560 ratings
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Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting
Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting
by: Ann Hood
3.77 avg rating — 2,542 ratings
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Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith 4.03 avg rating — 873 ratings
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Publishing: A Writer’s Memoir
Publishing: A Writer’s Memoir 3.41 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950's
Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950's 3.79 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings
Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings 4.34 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon
Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon 3.92 avg rating — 747 ratings
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The Writing Life
The Writing Life 3.98 avg rating — 18,001 ratings
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Sister Age
Sister Age 3.69 avg rating — 382 ratings
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Alice Walker: A Woman for Our Times
Alice Walker: A Woman for Our Times 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Among Friends
Among Friends really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution 4.08 avg rating — 1,219 ratings
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Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann
Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann 3.93 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties 3.81 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
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Judgement Day
Judgement Day 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Selected Writings
Selected Writings 3.87 avg rating — 551 ratings
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life 4.02 avg rating — 5,210 ratings
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The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling
The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling 4.05 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 3.69 avg rating — 2,560 ratings
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Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? 3.98 avg rating — 4,160 ratings
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Kate Carew: America's First Great Woman Cartoonist
Kate Carew: America's First Great Woman Cartoonist 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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George Sand: True Genius, True Woman
George Sand: True Genius, True Woman 4.05 avg rating — 746 ratings
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The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative 3.84 avg rating — 296 ratings
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Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks: The Life and Times of Lucile Morris Upton
Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks: The Life and Times of Lucile Morris Upton 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist
Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist 4.09 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman
Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman 3.65 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Constance Baker Motley: One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law
Constance Baker Motley: One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island 4.36 avg rating — 3,102 ratings
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Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman
Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman 3.77 avg rating — 375 ratings
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Nell Brinkley and the New Woman in the Early 20th Century
Nell Brinkley and the New Woman in the Early 20th Century 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story 3.81 avg rating — 1,780 ratings
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man 4.20 avg rating — 910 ratings
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A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman
A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman 3.78 avg rating — 550 ratings
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The Huntress: The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher
The Huntress: The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher 3.65 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Margaret Mitchell: A Scarlett or a Melanie
Margaret Mitchell: A Scarlett or a Melanie 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science 3.85 avg rating — 587 ratings
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The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker
The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker 4.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
by: Amy Gary
3.61 avg rating — 2,329 ratings
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Margaret Bourke-White: Photographer
Margaret Bourke-White: Photographer 4.42 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston 4.36 avg rating — 1,135 ratings
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