Category: Autobiography/Biography

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Scars by A. Breeze Harper

A. Breeze Harper | Scars | Scars is a novel about whiteness, racism, and breaking past the normative boundaries of heterosexuality, as experienced through eighteen year old Sava

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Broken Horses by Carlile Brandi

Carlile Brandi | Broken Horses | ‘Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change, moving fr

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Graphic Novel

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata

Kabi Nagata | My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness | The heart-rending autobiographical manga that’s taken the internet by storm!My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is an honest and heartfelt look at o

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Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing: Essays by Lauren Hough

Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing: Essays Lauren Hough As an adult, Lauren Hough has had many identities: an airman in…

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Black Interest

Young, Black, And Determined by Pat McKissack; Fredrick McKissack

Pat McKissack; Fredrick McKissack | Young, Black, And Determined | The story of twenty-eight-year-old Chicago-born Lorraine Hansberry, whose 1959 Broadway play skyrocketed her to fame, describes the background of her

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To Be Young, Gifted And Black by Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry | To Be Young, Gifted And Black | A long-running success of the 1968/69 Off-Broadway season. Fast paced, powerful, touching and hilarious, this kaleidoscope of constantly shifting scen

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To Be Young, Gifted And Black by Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry | To Be Young, Gifted And Black | In her first play, the now-classic A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry introduced the lives of ordinary African Americans into our national theatrical repe

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Eleanor And Hick by Susan Quinn

Susan Quinn | Eleanor And Hick | A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok–a relationship that, over more than three decades, transfor

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Marguerite Yourcenar by Josyane Savigneau

Josyane Savigneau | Marguerite Yourcenar | Marguerite Yourcenar was born Marguerite de Crayencour in Brussels in 1903. She lost her mother at birth, her native Belgium at the age of six, and wa

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Marguerite Yourcenar by Josyane Savigneau

Josyane Savigneau | Marguerite Yourcenar | ‘ Solitude… je ne crois pas comme ils croient, je ne vis pas comme ils vivent, je n’aime pas comme ils aiment… Je mourrai comme ils meurent ‘, écr