Memoirs...Take One

Peek inside the lives of others with these riveting memoirs from all walks of life.


Dry by Augesten Burroughs

When he was 13, Augusten Burroughs' mother gave him away to her lunatic psychiatrist, who adopted him. Now he has established a life for himself as a high-paid advertising hotshot in Manhattan where he hides from his haunting past in a martini glass.

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Not Fade Away by Ben Fong-Torres

Rock reporter Ben Fong-Torres reflects on the experiences he had while studying the rock and pop culture of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

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Forgotten Promise by Gretchen Kreuter

Relates the author's experiences trying to improve racial and gender agendas at a small midwest college in the face of violence, threats, and disorder.

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The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon

Presents the true story of Brent Runyon, who at fourteen set himself on fire and sustained burns over eighty percent of his body and describes the months of physical and mental rehabilitation that followed as he attempted to pull his life together.

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Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett describes her friendship with Lucy Grealy, author of "Autobiography of a Face," and their commitment to each other for twenty years, from graduate school in Iowa to literary fame in New York City.

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Warriors don't cry by Melba Beals

A riveting true story of an embattled teenager who paid for integration with her innocence. Beals chronicles her harrowing junior year at Central High where she underwent the segregationists' brutal organized campaign of terrorism which included telephone threats, vigilante stalkers, economic blackmailers, rogue police, and much more.

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Catch me if you can: the amazing true story of the most extraordinary liar in the history of fun and profit by Frank W. Abagnale

Former con man Frank Abagnale, an authority on financial foul play, tells stories of the adventures he had while living the high life as a criminal.

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The Blue Bear: a true story of friendship, tragedy, and survival in the Alaskan wilderness by Lynn Schooler

A memoir in which wilderness guide Lynn Schooler, having chosen a solitary life due to adolescent scoliosis and the death of a woman he loved, shares the story of his decade-long friendship with Japanese photographer Michio Hoshino with whom he embarked on a quest to photograph the rare and elusive glacier bear.

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Rolling with the Stones by Bill Wyman

More than three thousand photos fill this journal-style memoir in which the Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman chronicles his life and that of the famous band, up to his official departure from their ranks in 1993.

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Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The author describes her two-year stay at a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele and for its progressive methods of treatment.

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Sickened by Julie Gregory

The author describes her life as the daughter of a woman afflicted with Munchausen by proxy, a form of child abuse in which a parent, most often a mother, invents or induces illness in a child in order to gain attention from medical professionals, tells how she was able to save herself, and discusses her efforts to have another young girl removed from her mother's care.

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