Both parents were worried about their "extremely bright, reclusive" son; Gates recalls struggling with social interactions, ...

Misunderstood artists. Legendary music icons. A forgotten Golden Age film star. These life stories deserve space in your ...

the best autobiographies tell someone else’s story but ring true to our own life experiences. Though they centre on the life of one person, memoirs can be all-encompassing. Most readers can lear ...

Spoto’s biography is possibly the best: capturing the horrific origins ... Beautifully written and insightful, Habib’s memoir is about what it means to find your own identity in a world ...

while some of our best contemporary writers, such as Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi and Sarah Moss, have swapped fiction for memoir. Royal biography is a very crowded sub-genre, but two years ...

Brandi Carlile’s insightful autobiography has been heralded as one of the best music memoirs ever written since it came out earlier this year. In “Broken Horses” the Grammy-winning musician ...

Dozens of Black authors are turning their struggles, triumphs and unique journeys into Black memoirs that will inspire you all year long. From Hollywood matriarch Tina Knowles to civil rights ...