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A. C. Benson
Arthur Christopher Benson (April 24, 1862 – June 17, 1925), usually published as A. C. Benson, was an English author, diarist, and educator. He served as master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, from.
Abigail Shrier
Abigail Shrier is an American journalist and author of Irreversible Damage (2020) and Bad Therapy (2024), a columnist at The Free Press and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Aisha Chaudhary
Aisha Chaudhary (1996-2015), Indian writer and motivational speaker from New Delhi, born with SCID, wrote the memoir My Little Epiphanies; her life inspired the 2019 film The Sky Is Pink.
Alex Haley
Alex Haley (1921–1992), American author of Roots and co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X; first Playboy interviewer; won a special Pulitzer Prize; later faced plagiarism suits and accuracy disputes.
Alexandre Exquemelin
Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (c. 1645–1707), also John Esquemeling, French barber-surgeon and buccaneer chronicler; wrote De Americaensche Zee-Rovers (1678), The Buccaneers of America, the key eyewitness source on Caribbean piracy and Henry Morgan.
Amy Griffin (author)
Amy Griffin, American author and G9 Ventures founder, wrote the 2025 memoir The Tell, an Oprah's Book Club pick about MDMA-recovered memories of abuse; later disputed in lawsuits.
Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977), French-born American diarist and novelist. Began her diary at 11 in 1914, producing 35,000 pages; published in seven edited volumes, four Early Diary volumes, and eight posthumous unexpurgated volumes; also wrote erotic fiction.
Andrea Werhun
Andrea Werhun is a Toronto writer, performer, producer, and sex worker, author of Modern Whore: A Memoir (2017/2018, expanded 2022) with Nicole Bazuin; subject of the 2025 Sean Baker-executive-produced documentary and consultant on Anora.
Ann Rule
Ann Rule, also known as Ann Rae Rule, was an American true-crime writer whose 1980 book The Stranger Beside Me recounted her friendship with Ted Bundy.
Anna Leonowens
Anna Leonowens was an Indian-born British educator and writer whose memoirs of teaching at the Siamese court of King Mongkut from 1862 to 1867 inspired the musical The King and I.
Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott (born 1954, San Francisco) is an American novelist and memoirist, author of twenty books including Bird by Bird (1994), Operating Instructions (1993), Traveling Mercies (1999), and Help, Thanks, Wow (2012), known for candid, humorous writing on faith, addiction, and motherhood.
Anne Lister
Anne Lister (1791–1840), Yorkshire landowner and diarist of Shibden Hall, Halifax, called the first modern lesbian; her four-to-five-million-word diary, partly in cipher, records her relationships with women, estate management, and mountaineering firsts.
Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard (Meta Ann Doak, 1945–2026), American author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction; also wrote Holy the Firm, An American Childhood, The Writing Life, and The Maytrees; National Humanities Medal 2015.
Anthony Swofford
Anthony Swofford (born 1970, Fairfield, California) is an American writer and former Marine scout-sniper of 2d Battalion, 7th Marines in the Gulf War, author of the 2003 bestselling memoir Jarhead, adapted as Sam Mendes's 2005 film, plus Exit A (2007) and Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails (2012).
Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs, born Christopher Richter Robison in 1965, is an American memoirist and novelist best known for Running with Scissors (2002), an account of his unconventional childhood in his mother's psychiatrist's household.
B. D. Hyman
B. D. Hyman (Barbara Davis Sherry, born 1947) is Bette Davis's only biological child, author of the 1985 memoir My Mother's Keeper and the 1987 Pentecostal sequel Narrow Is the Way; Davis disinherited her and her sons.
Baek Se-hee
Baek Se-hee (백세희, born 1990) was the South Korean author of the therapy memoir I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki (죽고 싶지만 떡볶이는 먹고 싶어), about her dysthymia; a million-copy, 25-country bestseller. She died October 16, 2025, aged 35, donating organs that saved five lives.
Belle Burden
Belle Burden, full name Flobelle Fairbanks Burden, is an American author and attorney known for her debut memoir Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, a 2026 number 1 bestseller.
Berniece Baker Miracle
Berniece Baker Miracle, born Berniece Inez Gladys Baker, was an American author and older half-sister of Marilyn Monroe who co-wrote the 1994 memoir My Sister Marilyn.
Betty Mahmoody
Betty Mahmoody is an American author whose memoir Not Without My Daughter (1987), recounting her escape from Iran with her daughter, sold 12 million copies and became a 1991 film.
Billy Hayes (writer)
Billy Hayes (born 1947) is the American writer of Midnight Express (1977), the memoir of his 1970 hashish arrest in Istanbul, five years in Turkish prisons, and his escape from Imrali Island, later an Oscar-winning 1978 film he has publicly criticized for distorting his story.
Bloke Modisane
Bloke Modisane, born William Modisane (1923–1986), was a South African journalist, writer, and actor of the 1950s Drum generation, known for the autobiography Blame Me on History.
Brian Masters
Brian Masters (born 1939) is a British writer and journalist, author of over twenty books on French literature, the British dukedoms, and serial killers. His Killing for Company (1985) on Dennis Nilsen won the CWA Gold Dagger; he was portrayed by Jason Watkins in ITV's Des (2020).
Charles Eastman
Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) was a Santee Dakota physician, writer, and Indian reformer who served at Pine Ridge during the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre and published acclaimed autobiographies of Dakota life, beginning with Indian Boyhood in 1902.
Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed (born 1968), American author of the #1 NYT bestseller Wild about her 1995 1,100-mile Pacific Crest Trail hike; anonymous Dear Sugar columnist; books include Torch, Tiny Beautiful Things, Brave Enough.
Chloe Dalton (author)
Chloe Dalton is a British writer, political adviser, and foreign policy specialist, author of the debut memoir Raising Hare (La liebre y yo), a Wainwright Prize-winning bestseller about raising a wild leveret during the COVID lockdowns.
Chrisann Brennan
Chrisann Brennan, American artist and writer, Steve Jobs's first long-time girlfriend and mother of Lisa Brennan-Jobs; author of the 2013 memoir The Bite in the Apple.
Christopher Robin Milne
Christopher Robin Milne (1920-1996), English bookseller and writer, son of A. A. Milne and the real-life basis of Christopher Robin in Winnie-the-Pooh; author of The Enchanted Places.
Christopher Tolkien
Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (1924–2020), C. J. R. Tolkien, English medievalist and youngest son of J.R.R. Tolkien; Oxford Old and Middle English professor, drew The Lord of the Rings maps, literary executor from 1973, editor of The Silmarillion and the twelve-volume History of Middle-earth.
Constancia de la Mora
Constancia de la Mora (1906–1950) was a Spanish writer, granddaughter of Antonio Maura, who directed the Republican foreign press office and wrote the 1939 autobiography In Place of Splendor.