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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (Deborah Mitford, Debo, 1920–2014), youngest Mitford sister, memoirist and restorer of Chatsworth House; created its farm shop and farmyard and wrote Wait for Me!.
Ève Curie
Ève Curie (Ève Denise Labouisse, 1904-2007), French pianist, journalist, and diplomat, younger daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie; author of the 1937 bestseller Madame Curie, Free France wartime correspondent, and NATO adviser.
Fatima Bhutto (فاطمہ بھٹو)
Fatima Bhutto (فاطمہ بھٹو), born 1982 in Kabul, is a Pakistani writer, journalist, and activist, daughter of assassinated Murtaza Bhutto; author of Songs of Blood and Sword (2010), The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, The Runaways, and The Hour of the Wolf (2026).
Frieda Lawrence
Frieda Lawrence, also known as Frieda Weekley, was a German baroness and writer. She wrote the memoir Not I, But the Wind and managed D. H. Lawrence's estate.
Hope Against Hope
Hope Against Hope (Russian: Vospominaniya, "memoirs") is Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoir of her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, and his persecution under Stalin, first published in English in 1970.
Ilyasah Shabazz
Ilyasah Shabazz (born 1962), American author, educator, and activist; third daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz; author of Growing Up X and X: A Novel (NAACP Image Award); adjunct professor at John Jay College and Shabazz Center board chair.
Jane Hawking
Jane Hawking, born Jane Wilde, English author and academic, first wife of physicist Stephen Hawking; married 1965, divorced 1995; wrote Music to Move the Stars (1999) and Travelling to Infinity (2007), basis of The Theory of Everything.
Krishna Hutheesing
Krishna Nehru Hutheesing (1907–1967), Indian writer, youngest sister of Jawaharlal Nehru and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit; independence activist, jail veteran, author of With No Regrets and We Nehrus.
Linda Lee Cadwell
Linda Lee Cadwell (Linda C. Emery, born 1945), American teacher and writer, widow of Bruce Lee; author of the 1975 memoir Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew, consultant on Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, and Bruce Lee Foundation co-founder.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), also Lisa Brennan, is an American memoirist, daughter of Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs; her debut memoir Small Fry (2018) was a NYT bestseller about her Silicon Valley childhood.
Llewelyn Davies boys
The Llewelyn Davies boys, George, Jack, Peter, Michael, and Nicholas, were the family whose friendship with J. M. Barrie inspired Peter Pan; orphaned in 1907 and 1910, they were raised under his guardianship.
Lynne Spears
Lynne Irene Spears (née Bridges), American teacher, day care operator, and author born 1955 in Mississippi; mother of Britney, Jamie Lynn, and Bryan Spears; coauthor of Heart to Heart and A Mother's Gift and author of the 2008 memoir Through the Storm.
Mahtob Mahmoody
Mahtob Mahmoody (born 1979), American author and daughter of Betty Mahmoody; held in Iran 1984-1986 with her mother, subject of Not Without My Daughter, author of My Name is Mahtob (2015).
Mao Xiang
Mao Xiang, courtesy name Pijiang (冒襄, 1611–1693), was a Chinese writer and Ming loyalist from Rugao, known for the elegiac memoir Yingmei An Yiyu for his concubine Dong Xiaowan.
Margaret Durrell
Margaret "Margo" Durrell (1919 or 1920 – 16 January 2007), later Margaret Duncan, sister of Lawrence, Leslie, and Gerald Durrell, ran a Bournemouth boarding house from 1947 and wrote the 1995 memoir Whatever Happened to Margo?.
Myra Lewis Williams
Myra Lewis Williams (born 1944), born Myra Gale Brown, is the American author and Atlanta realtor who married Jerry Lee Lewis at 13 in 1957, sparking the scandal that wrecked his career; author of Great Balls of Fire and The Spark That Survived.
Nadezhda Mandelstam (Надежда Яковлевна Мандельштам)
Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam (Надежда Яковлевна Мандельштам), born Khazina (1899-1980), Russian memoirist, wife of Osip Mandelstam, who preserved his poetry and wrote Hope Against Hope (1970) and Hope Abandoned.
Pattie Mallette
Pattie Mallette (Patricia Elizabeth Mallette), Canadian author and producer, mother of Justin Bieber; launched his career via YouTube; wrote NYT bestseller Nowhere But Up (Revell, 2012) with A.J. Gregory; teen and Spanish editions; Round 2 foundation.
Sally Burton
Sally Burton, born Sally Hay, is the British widow of actor Richard Burton; married him in Las Vegas in July 1983, inherited his $4.58 million estate, and donated his diaries to Swansea University. Distinct from the New Zealand painter of the same name.
Stephen Humphrey Bogart
Stephen Humphrey Bogart (born 1949), also Stephen Bogart, is the son of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, author of Bogart: In Search of My Father (1995) and the R.J. Brooks mysteries, a Court TV producer, and co-manager of his father's estate.
Victoria Price
Victoria Price (born 1962, Santa Monica) is an American writer, designer, and speaker, daughter of actor Vincent Price and Mary Grant, and author of Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography (1999).