Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Matthew Perry revisits Friends fame and a long struggle with addiction, from junior tennis to Chandler Bing to a 2018 health crisis, with blunt humor.
2,258-word summary · 10 min read
biography + memoir
10 books tagged both “biography” and “memoir”.
Heaven Is for Real
A Nebraska pastor's four-year-old survives a burst appendix, then describes angels, Jesus, and relatives he never met.
2,679-word summary · 12 min read
Just Kids
Patti Smith recalls broke young years with Robert Mapplethorpe in 1960s New York, from Brooklyn rooms to the Chelsea Hotel, art, music, and a kept promise.
2,401-word summary · 11 min read
On Writing
Stephen King blends memoir and blunt writing advice on reading daily, drafting fast, and cutting hard.
2,702-word summary · 12 min read
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight tells how Blue Ribbon Sports grew from a trunk of Japanese running shoes into Nike.
2,824-word summary · 13 min read
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X traces his life from Michigan childhood through Harlem, prison, and the Nation of Islam to Mecca in this 1965 memoir told to Alex Haley.
2,816-word summary · 13 min read
This Is Going to Hurt
Adam Kay retells his junior doctor diaries with humour and strain, from labour ward nights to leaving medicine.
2,869-word summary · 13 min read
Spare
Prince Harry recalls Diana's death in 1997, two tours in Afghanistan, and stepping back from royal life with Meghan in this frank 2023 memoir of grief, love…
2,586-word summary · 11 min read
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala grows up in Swat, blogged for school under ban, and survives a bus shooting.
2,015-word summary · 9 min read
Becoming
Michelle Obama traces her path from South Side Chicago through Princeton, Harvard law and the White House years in this warm, candid memoir of family, work and…
2,143-word summary · 10 min read