Literary Memoir

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    • On Blackness and Being
    • By: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake"....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Nikki Grimes
    • Narrated by: Nikki Grimes
    • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse....

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    • By: Margaret Atwood
    • Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 240 ratings
    • What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities....

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    • A Literary Autobiography
    • By: William F. Buckley Jr.
    • Narrated by: William F. Buckley Jr.
    • Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 204 ratings
    • In this autobiography, woven from personal pieces composed over the course of a celebrated writing life of more than 50 years, you'll meet William Buckley the boy....

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    • By: Arthur Golden
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,672 ratings
    • Nitta Sayuri tells us in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate of her life as a geisha...

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    • By: Amy Stewart
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Series: Kopp Sisters, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,325 ratings
    • In 1914 collisions between motor cars and horse-drawn carriages are an everyday occurrence on the streets of Paterson, New Jersey....

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    • By: Helene Hanff
    • Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat, John Franklyn-Robbins
    • Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,030 ratings
    • When Helene Hanff makes an innocent inquiry about the possibility of purchasing hard-to-find books through Marks and Co., Booksellers, she begins a 20-year love affair with Frank Doel....

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    • A Literary Memoir
    • By: Jon M. Sweeney
    • Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A memoir for the bookish-inclined, using personal stories to demonstrate how books have a magical way to move a person from one stage of life to the next.

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    • Memoirs of a Literary Forger
    • By: Lee Israel
    • Narrated by: Jane Curtin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 260 ratings
    • Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy - Lee Israel’s hilarious and shocking memoir of the almost two years when she forged and sold more than 300 letters by such literary notables as Dorothy Parker and Noel Coward....

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    • By: John Irving
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 298 ratings
    • Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs, including an account of Mr. Irving’s dinner with President Ronald Reagan at the White House.....

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    • By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • From renowned translators Richard Pevear and Lindsay Volokhonsky comes a new translation - certain to become the definitive version - of the first great prison memoir....

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    • On Writers and Drinking
    • By: Olivia Laing
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • Olivia Laing's widely acclaimed account of why some of the best literature has been created by writers in the grip of alcoholism....

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    • A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
    • By: Soyica Diggs Colbert
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this first scholarly biography of Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), the author of A Raisin in the Sun, theater professor Soyica Diggs Colbert considers the playwright's life at the intersection of art and politics....

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    • Timeless Children's Novels to Refresh Our Tired Souls
    • By: Mitali Perkins
    • Narrated by: Siiri Scott
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Mitali Perkins invites us to explore the promise of seven timeless children's novels for adults living in uncertain times: stories that provide mirrors to our innermost selves and open windows to other worlds....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Christopher Wixson
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time....

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    • A Short Memoir
    • By: B Alan Bourgeois
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 29 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-25
    • Language: English
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    • The Crazy Great Journey is a raw, uplifting memoir of survival, vision, and the unshakable belief in the power of stories. B. Alan Bourgeois—an ...

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    • By: Mary Karr
    • Narrated by: Mary Karr
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 719 ratings
    • Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers' experience, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr's own process....

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    • How Lincoln Moved the Nation
    • By: Diana Schaub
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, believed that our national character was defined by three key moments: the writing of the Constitution, our declaration of independence from England, and the beginning of slavery on the North American continent....

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