Author Memoirs

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    • The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother
    • By: Eve LaPlante
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Marmee and Louisa is a gorgeously written and deeply felt biography of two extraordinary women as well as a key to our understanding of Louisa May Alcott's life and work....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • A Memoir
    • By: Andre Dubus III
    • Narrated by: Andre Dubus III
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 371 ratings
    • After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town....

    Regular price: $19.74

    • A Memoir
    • By: Carmen Maria Machado
    • Narrated by: Carmen Maria Machado
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,738 ratings
    • In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • A Daughter's Memoir
    • By: Molly Jong-Fast
    • Narrated by: Molly Jong-Fast
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • From the political writer and podcaster, a ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about her elusive mother’s encroaching dementia and a reckoning with her complicated childhood

    Regular price: $18.00

    • The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
    • By: Caroline Fraser
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,241 ratings
    • The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie book series....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • By: Tobias Wolff
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-28-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 716 ratings
    • First published in 1989, this memoir has become a classic of the genre....

    Regular price: $21.04

    • A Memoir
    • By: Joyce Maynard
    • Narrated by: Joyce Maynard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • In 2011, when she was in her late 50s, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. This is their story....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 44 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain.

    Regular price: $36.00

    • By: M. William Phelps
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • In the summer of 2003, the Houston suburb of Clear Lake, Texas, was devastated when four young residents were viciously slain. But when a killer came knocking....

    Regular price: $17.62

    • A Biography
    • By: Mary V. Dearborn
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 29 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
    • This is a revelatory look into the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, considered in his time to be the greatest living American novelist and short story writer....

    Regular price: $34.39

    • The True Story of Lacey Spears, the Seemingly Perfect Mother Who Murdered Her Son in Cold Blood
    • By: John Glatt
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 426 ratings
    • Lacey Spears made international headlines in January 2015, when she was charged with the "depraved mind" murder of her five-year-old son, Garnett....

    Regular price: $17.99

    • Landscapes of a Western Mind
    • By: Ivan Doig
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 414 ratings
    • A nominee for the National Book Award, Ivan Doig's brilliant memoir shares the experiences and culture that shaped his early years and made him fall in love with the West....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng/Leonard Lake Torture Murders
    • By: Don Lasseter
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • In 1985, Charles Ng and Leonard Lake were spotted shoplifting. Ng escaped, but Lake's capture led police to a concrete bunker in the Sierra Nevada foothills, where they discovered the grisly evidence of an orgy of sex crimes, torture, and murder that claimed at least 16 victims....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Murder of the Century
    • By: Peter Graham
    • Narrated by: Eric Brooks
    • Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 424 ratings
    • On June 22, 1954, teenage friends Juliet Hulme - better known as best-selling mystery writer Anne Perry - and Pauline Parker went for a walk in a New Zealand park with Pauline’s mother, Honora....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
    • By: John Matteson
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 21 hrs
    • Release date: 07-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934--1937
    • By: Anais Nin
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The renowned diarist continues the story begun in Henry and June and Incest. Drawing from the author's original, uncensored journals, Fire follows Anaïs Nin's journey as she attempts to liberate herself sexually, artistically, and emotionally....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • By: Dave Eggers
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 849 ratings
    • Dave Eggers scored a worldwide phenomenon with this memoir that topped national best-seller lists and has since become a staple for summer reading and book clubs....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
    • By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • Between 1785 and 1812, a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births)....

    Regular price: $18.05

    • Memories of a Writing Life
    • By: Amy Tan
    • Narrated by: Amy Tan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Amy Tan has touched millions of people with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women
    • By: Annabel Abbs
    • Narrated by: Fenella Fudge
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Annabel Abbs's Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women is a beautifully written meditation on connecting with the outdoors through the simple act of walking....

    Regular price: $20.99