As and When: Intro to Biographies, Memoirs and Autobiographies - hosted by joemkl

Someone you know of but don't know much about
Read an autobiography, memoir, or biography of someone whose name you know but don't really know anything about.
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The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

Dave Grohl

10 hours, 35 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction memoir music funny inspiring reflective medium-paced
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

Alice Wong

377 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir politics funny informative reflective medium-paced
Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer

Shakespeare's Wife

Germaine Greer

356 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism history reflective slow-paced
Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson

Love, Pamela

Pamela Anderson

5 hours, 28 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir poetry emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
. . . and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man by Connie Schultz

. . . and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man

Connie Schultz

304 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir politics reflective fast-paced
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou's Autobiography #1

Maya Angelou

289 pages • first pub 1969 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

Anne Frank

9 hours, 54 minutes • first pub 1947 (editions) user-added

nonfiction classics history memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Steve Irwin by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara

Steve Irwin

Little People, Big Dreams

Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara

32 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction biography childrens nature hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced
Finding Me by Viola Davis

Finding Me

Viola Davis

9 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Tough: My Journey to True Power by Terry Crews

Tough: My Journey to True Power

Terry Crews

9 hours, 12 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced