A review of Biographies and Memoirs
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One of the reasons I like history so much is it is made up of stories. Women's History Month gives us an opportunity to dive into the stories of women. Below are some newer biographies and memoirs of women from all walks of life.
- Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann
- The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson [ebook]
- The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura [ebook]
- Eleanor in the Village: Eleanor Roosevelt's Search for Freedom and Identity in New York's Greenwich Village by Jan Jarboe Russell
- Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells by Michelle Duster
- Just As I Am: A Memoir by Cicely Tyson [ebook[
- Kamala's Way: An American Life by Dan Morain
- Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight by Julia Sweig
- The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography by Hilary Holladay
- Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
- She Come By It Natural:Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh [ebook]
- Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brina
- The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
- Sybille Bedford: A Life by Selena Hastings [ebook]
- The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs