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Edward Abbey
Desert
Solitaire
Henry Adams (1838-1918)
The
Education of Henry Adams
Mitch Albom
Tuesdays
with Morrie
The
Five People You Meet in Heaven
Isabel Allende
Paula
Dorothy Allison
Bastard
Out of Carolina
Two or Three Things I Know For
Sure
Maya Angelou (1928- )
"Living
Well. Living Good" (from the book Wouldn't Take Nothing
for my Journey Now, 1993)
I
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Life
Doesn't Frighten Me
All
God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Wouldn't
Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Meena Alexander
Fault
Lines : A Memoir,
Manhattan
Music : A Novel
Night-Scene
The Garden (Short Works Series)
The
Shock of Arrival
Truth
Tales: Contemp Women Writers of India
Jimmy Santiago Baca
A
Place to Stand
Russell Baker
Growing
Up
James Baldwin
Collected
Essays (Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire
Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work)
Notes
of a Native Son
Go
Tell It on the Mountain
Nobody
Knows My Name (More Notes of a Native Son)
James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Bibliography
The
General Correspondence of James Boswell 1766-1769, 1768-1769 (Yale
Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, Vol 7)
Rick Bragg
All
Over But the Shoutin'
Linda Brent
Incidents
in the Life of a Slave Girl
Truman Capote
In
Cold Blood
Nien Chang
Life
and Death in Shanghai
Da Chen
Colors
of the Mountain
Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952- )
"I
am Latina wherever I am," Judith Ortiz Cofer on Identity;
"Don't
Misread My Signals." I May Dress in Scarlet, but Don't Mistake Me For
a Hot Tamale. From "Hers" Column, Glamour, Jan 1992.
The
Year of Our Revolution (New and Selected Stories and Poems; Woman
in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer)
Silent
Dancing (A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood; The Latin
Deli : Prose and Poetry
An Island Like You : Stories of the Barrio)
Frank. Conroy
Stop-Time
Pat. Conroy
The Water is Wide, My Losing
Season
Jill Ker Conway, The
Road from Coorain
Bryce Courtenay
Power of One
Harry Crews
A Childhood
Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)
Autobiographic
Sketches
Malcolm Cowley
Exile's
Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
Richard Henry Dana (1909?14)
Two
Years Before the Mast
Isak Dinesen
Out of Africa
Michael Dorris
Broken Cord
Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895)
Life
and Times of Frederick Douglass (His Early Life as a Slave, his Escape
from Bondage, and his Complete History to the Present Time
The
Heroic Slave
My
Bondage, My Freedom
A
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative
of the Life of Frederick Douglass : An American Slave
Approaches
to Teaching Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Autobiographies
(Narrative of the Life My Bondage and My Freedom Life and Times by Frederick
Douglass, Henry Louis, Jr. Gates--Editor)
Escape
from Slavery : The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words
Mark Edmundson
Teacher
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Wind,
Sand, and Stars
Annie Dillard
An
American Childhood
Mark Doty
Firebird: A Memoir
Dave Eggers
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering
Genius
Gretel. Ehrlich
The Solace of Open Spaces
Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
The
Autobiography and Other Writings
Poor
Richard's Almanac
The
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Hamlin Garland
A Son of the Middle Border
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Colored
People: A Memoir
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Wait
Til Next Year
Graham Greene
A
Sort of Life
John Howard Griffinx
Black
Like Me
Moss Hart
Act
One
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)
Biography
An
Unfinished Woman : A Memoir
Pentimento
: A Book of Portraits
Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast
Homer Hickham
Rocket Boys: A Memoir
Linda Hogan
The Woman Who Watches over the
World: A Native Memoir
Garrett Hongo
Volcano
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
Biography
The
Story of My Life
Maxine Hong Kingston (1940- )
Biography
The
Woman Warrior (Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts)
Tripmaster
Monkey : His Fake Book
China
Men
Conversations
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Jamaica
Kincaid
My Brother
Annie John
Stephen King
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air
Into the Wild
T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935)
Biography
Seven
Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph.
C.S. Lewis
Surprised by Joy
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A Gift of the Sea
Norman MacLean
A River Runs Through It
Malcolm
X
The Autobiography
of Malcolm X
Beryl Markham
West With The Night
Bobbie Ann Mason
Clear
Springs : A Family Story
Mark Mathabane
Kaffir Boy
James McBride
The
Color of Water:
A
Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Mary McCarthy
Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood
Frank McCourt
Angela's Ashes
Tis: A Memoir
Thomas Merton
The Seven Storey Mountain
N. Scott Momaday
The Way to Rainy Mountain
Anne Moody
Coming
of Age in Mississippi
William Least Heat Moon
Blue Highways: A Journey into
America
Wright Morris
Will's Boy
Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory
Nasdijj
the blood runs like a river through
my dreams
Pablo Neruda
Memoirs
John Henry Newman (1801?1890)
Biography
The
Heart of Newman : A Synthesis.
Kathleen Norris
Dakota
Naomi Shihab Nye
Never in a Hurry
Sherwin
Nuland
Lost
in America: A Journey with My Father
Michael Ondaatje
Running in the Family
Cynthia Ozick
Art and Ardor
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
The
Concise Pepys
A
Pepys Anthology (Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys)
Sidney Poitier
Measure
of a Man : A Spiritual Autobiography [UNABRIDGED]
Robert Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance
Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
Richard Rodriguez
Hunger
of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez; Days
of Obligation : An Argument With My Mexican Father.
Mike Rose
Lives on the Boundary
Laura Rothenberg
Breathing for a Living
Esmeralda Santiago
When
I Was Puerto Rican
Almost
a Woman
Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Esmerelda
Santiago
Almost
A Women
Barbara Scot
The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes
Prairie Reunion
Richard Selzer
Mortal Lessons: Notes on the
Art of Surgery
Mary Lee Settle, Addie
: A Memoir
Kate Simon
Bronx Primitive
Wole Soyinka
Ake
Wallace Stegner
Wolf Willow
Ron Suskind
A
Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey
from
the Inner City to the Ivy League
Lewis Thomas
Lives of a Cell, etc.
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
James Thurber
My Life and Hard Times
Mark Twain
Roughing It
Life on the Mississippi, etc.
Gore Vidal
Palimpsest
Alice Walker
In Search of Our Motherís Gardens
Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery
Eudora Welty
One Writer's Beginnings
Bailey White
Mama Makes Up Her Mind
John Edgar Wideman
Brothers and Keepers
Tobias Wolff
This Boy's Life
Richard Wright (1908- )
Chronology
of Richard Wright's Life
Black
Boy
Native
Son.
Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves
Anzia Yezierska (1885-1970)
A
Study Guide for Teaching the Works of Anzia Yezierska
Red
Ribbon on a White Horse. |