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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Da Chen
Da Chen, born in Fujian, China, in 1962, was a Chinese American author and Columbia Law School graduate known for his bestselling memoir Colors of the Mountain.
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet (born Daniel Paul Corney, 1979) is an English autistic savant writer, known for Born on a Blue Day, reciting pi to 22,514 decimal places, synaesthesia, and books on neurodivergence.
David Sedaris
David Sedaris, American humorist and essayist, author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, and Calypso; NPR Santaland Diaries; diarist since 1977; lives in West Sussex with Hugh Hamrick; 14 bestselling books.
Deborah Feldman
Deborah Feldman (born 1986) is a German-American memoirist raised in the Satmar Hasidic community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her 2012 memoir Unorthodox was a New York Times bestseller and inspired the 2020 Netflix miniseries; she lives in Berlin.
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), Holocaust survivor from Sighet, Romania, author of Night (from Yiddish Un di velt hot geshvign), Nobel Peace Prize 1986, Boston University professor and human rights advocate.
Ellen Kuzwayo
Ellen Kuzwayo, full name Nnoseng Ellen Kate Kuzwayo, was a South African writer and activist whose autobiography Call Me Woman won the 1986 CNA Literary Award.
Emilee Hackney
Emilee Hackney, American writer from Tazewell, Virginia, eighth-generation Appalachian, Harvard '20 English graduate; author of the 2026 Penguin Press New York Times bestselling debut memoir All That's Unseen about Pentecostalism and leaving Appalachia.
Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt (Francis McCourt, 1930–2009), Irish-American memoirist and New York teacher, author of Angela's Ashes (1996), winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography; also wrote 'Tis and Teacher Man.
Glennon Doyle
Glennon Doyle, American author of Untamed, Love Warrior, and Carry On, Warrior; host of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast with Abby Wambach; founder of Together Rising and Treat Media.
James Bowen (author)
James Anthony Bowen (born 1979), English author of A Street Cat Named Bob; recovering heroin addict and busker whose 2007 rescue of stray cat Bob led to a memoir series sold over 8 million copies in 40-plus languages and two films.
Jean Améry
Jean Améry (Hans Mayer, 1912–1978), Austrian essayist and Auschwitz survivor. Pen name anagram of Mayer; wrote At the Mind's Limits (1966), defending resentment and describing torture's lasting destruction of trust in the world.
Jean Guéhenno
Jean Guéhenno (1890–1978) was a French writer, teacher, and education inspector best remembered for Journal des années noires, his secret diary of the German occupation of France.
Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls (born 1960, Phoenix, Arizona) is an American author and journalist, former E! and New York magazine gossip columnist, best known for the bestselling memoir The Glass Castle (2005) and the novels Half Broke Horses, The Silver Star, and Hang the Moon.
Jennifer Worth
Jennifer Worth (1935-2011), born Jennifer Louise Lee, was a British nurse-midwife, musician, and writer whose Call the Midwife trilogy of memoirs of 1950s East End midwifery became UK bestsellers and inspired the BBC series.
Jillian Lauren
Jillian Lauren (Jillian Lauren Shriner), American author of the memoirs Some Girls: My Life in a Harem (2010) and Everything You Ever Wanted (2015), the novel Pretty, and Behold the Monster (2023) about serial killer Samuel Little; wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner.