Browsing: Authors

This New York Times bestselling collection compiles six memoirs from author and activist Maya Angelou — including the celebrated work I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. “Maya Angelou is a natural writer with an inordinate sense of life” (Kirkus Reviews).

In this dazzling memoir, a dedicated man of faith shares his story — and his life-changing relationship with God — with breathtaking honesty and deep insight. With over 1,100 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

A Pulitzer Prize finalist: After her husband, an English professor, suffered a stroke and lost his ability to formulate spoken words, writer Diane Ackerman helped him reclaim his language in this “gorgeously engrossing, affecting, sweetly funny, and mind-opening love story” (Booklist starred review).

With over 4,600 five-star ratings on Goodreads: In this acclaimed memoir, a wealthy Danish woman becomes the unexpected head of a coffee plantation in a Kenya colonized by the British Empire. The inspiration behind the Academy Award–winning film starring Meryl Streep.

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways…

A “mesmerizing” New York Times bestseller (The Guardian): Acclaimed author Andre Dubus III reflects on his turbulent childhood and his struggle to break a cycle of violence. “Gritty and gripping… Dubus bares his soul in stunning and page-turning prose” (Publishers Weekly starred review).

In the 1880s, former president Ulysses S. Grant and author Mark Twain forged a friendship that would change both men’s legacies. This fascinating account “uncovers a crucial sliver of American literary and cultural history” (#1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham).

This classic biography of Jazz Age darling Zelda Fitzgerald traces her Southern roots, her tumultuous marriage to F. Scott Fitzgerald, and her tragic death in a psychiatric hospital. “Scrupulously researched and never dull” (The New York Times).

From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal…

In this “beautifully written, deeply felt” National Book Award finalist (Los Angeles Times) in the tradition of A River Runs Through It, a man recalls his childhood in western Montana. “Engrossing and moving” (Time).