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Mark Judge (writer)
Mark Judge (Mark Gauvreau Judge, born 1964) is an American writer in Washington, D.C., author of the alcoholism memoir Wasted, Damn Senators, and God and Man at Georgetown Prep, and Brett Kavanaugh's Georgetown Prep classmate named in the 2018 Ford allegation.
Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky (born 1948) is an American journalist and author of Cod, Salt, Paper, Milk!, 1968, and The Basque History of the World, known for single-commodity world histories and a former foreign correspondent.
Mark Wales
Mark Wales is an Australian former SAS troop commander, 16-year military veteran with four Afghanistan deployments (2006-2010), author of Survivor: Life in the SAS (2021), Wharton MBA, McKinsey consultant, Kill Kapture founder, and winner of Australian Survivor: Blood V Water 2022.
Mary Karr
Mary Karr (born 1955) is an American poet and memoirist from East Texas, author of The Liars' Club, Cherry, Lit, and The Art of Memoir, Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University.
Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom (born 1958, Passaic, New Jersey), American author and Detroit Free Press sports columnist; wrote Tuesdays with Morrie (1997), the bestselling memoir, plus novels like The Five People You Meet in Heaven; founder of SAY Detroit and the Have Faith Haiti orphanage.
Mohamed Choukri
Mohamed Choukri (محمد شكري) was a Moroccan writer of Amazigh origin, best known for the autobiographical novel Al-Khubz al-Hafi, or For Bread Alone, an account of poverty in Morocco.
Molly Bloom (author)
Molly Bloom, the "Poker Princess," is the American author of the 2014 memoir Molly's Game about running high-stakes celebrity poker games in Los Angeles and New York, adapted into Aaron Sorkin's 2017 Oscar-nominated film.
Monika Mann
Monika Mann (1910–1992), German writer, feuilletonist, and pianist, fourth of six children of Thomas and Katia Mann; survivor of the 1940 City of Benares sinking that drowned her husband Jenő Lányi, and author of the 1956 memoir Vergangenes und Gegenwärtiges.
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.
Naomi Swartzentruber
Naomi Swartzentruber (born 1980) is an ex-Amish American memoirist and influencer (@amishinspiration), distinct from the Odon, Indiana homemaker of the same name. Raised Swartzentruber Amish in Michigan, she left at 17 in 1997, danced for 20 years, and published The Amazing Adventures of an Amish Stripper in 2023.
Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon Hill, 1883–1970), American self-help author of Think and Grow Rich (1937) and The Law of Success (1928). Known for the disputed claim that Andrew Carnegie commissioned his success research; historians, including Carnegie biographer David Nasaw, found no evidence of the meeting.
Neil Strauss
Neil Strauss, American journalist and author of The Game (2005), the bestseller that popularized pick-up artistry under his pseudonym Style; later wrote The Truth (2015) and celebrity memoirs like The Dirt.
Nicholas Boggs
Nicholas Boggs, American writer and independent scholar, author of the New York Times bestselling James Baldwin biography Baldwin: A Love Story (FSG, 2025) and co-editor of Little Man, Little Man (2018); Yale BA, Columbia PhD.
Ninon de l'Enclos
Ninon de l'Enclos (Anne de Lenclos, c. 1620–1705) was a French courtesan, Epicurean letter writer, and salonnière of Louis XIV's Paris; her salon at the Hôtel de Sagonne drew Molière, Saint-Évremond, and Racine, and her Sévigné letters are spurious.
Norman Lewis (writer)
Norman Lewis (1908–2003) was a British travel writer and novelist, author of A Dragon Apparent, Golden Earth, Naples '44 and The Honoured Society, and of the 1968 Sunday Times report Genocide in Brazil.
Osbert Sitwell
Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969) was an English man of letters who, with his siblings Edith and Sacheverell, led a rebellion against the literary establishment and wrote a five-volume autobiography.
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.
Pedro Nava
Pedro Nava (1903–1984) was a Brazilian physician and writer who practiced rheumatology for about fifty years, then won the Machado de Assis Prize for his six-volume memoirs (1972–1983).
Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons, also Peter John FitzSimons, Australian author, journalist, and former Wallabies lock; wrote Kokoda, Batavia, Gallipoli, Nancy Wake; chaired the Australian Republican Movement 2015-2022.
Philip Caputo
Philip Caputo (1941-2026), American novelist and journalist, Marine lieutenant in early Vietnam, Chicago Tribune Pulitzer co-winner, author of the memoir A Rumor of War and Horn of Africa.
Piper Kerman
Piper Kerman, American author of the 2010 memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, served 13 months of a 15-month sentence at FCI Danbury for money laundering in a drug trafficking scheme; her book became Jenji Kohan's Emmy-winning Netflix series.
Primo Levi
Primo Levi (1919–1987), Italian Jewish chemist and writer, Auschwitz survivor; author of If This Is a Man, The Truce, and The Periodic Table; deported to Auschwitz III-Monowitz in 1944 and later recognized among the twentieth century's major writers.
Qudratullah Shahab
Qudratullah Shahab (قدرت اللہ شہاب) was a Pakistani civil servant, diplomat, and Urdu writer, best known for his autobiography Shahab Nama, one of Urdu's best-selling memoirs.
Rachel DeLoache Williams
Rachel DeLoache Williams, American writer and former Vanity Fair photo editor from Knoxville, Tennessee; author of My Friend Anna (2019) about Anna Sorokin, whom she helped police arrest in 2017 after a $62,000 Marrakech trip.
Rachel Jeffs
Rachel Jeffs is a daughter of FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs who left the church with her five children in 2014 and wrote the 2017 memoir Breaking Free.
Richard Halliburton
Richard Halliburton (1900-1939), American travel writer and adventurer, author of The Royal Road to Romance; swam the Panama Canal for a 36-cent toll, flew the Flying Carpet around the world, and vanished in 1939 sailing the junk Sea Dragon from Hong Kong to San Francisco.
Richard O'Rawe
Richard O'Rawe, Belfast-born former IRA prisoner and PRO for the 1981 hunger strikers in the Maze H-Blocks; author of Blanketmen (2005) and Afterlives (2010) alleging the IRA leadership vetoed a deal to end the strike, plus crime novels and Gerry Conlon biography.
Richard Preston
Richard Preston (born 1954) is an American author and New Yorker contributor known for The Hot Zone, The Demon in the Freezer, and The Cobra Event, narrative nonfiction on Ebola, smallpox, and bioterrorism that influenced U.S. biodefense policy.
Robert Byron (travel writer)
Robert Byron (1905-1941), British travel writer and architectural historian, author of The Road to Oxiana (1937) about Persia and Afghanistan; distinguished from the poet Lord Byron; died when his ship was torpedoed in 1941.