Category: Autobiography/Biography

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Kitty Genovese by Kevin Cook

Kevin Cook | Kitty Genovese | At last, the true story of a crime that shocked the world. New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop–a murder the New

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My Autobiography Of Carson Mccullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland

Jenn Shapland | My Autobiography Of Carson Mccullers: A Memoir | ‘While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson McCullers and a woman name

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No Modernism Without Lesbians by Diana Souhami

Diana Souhami | No Modernism Without Lesbians | The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place – Paris, Between the Wars – fostered the birth of the Modernist m

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner Black Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Black. Queer. Southern. Women. by E. Patrick Johnson

E. Patrick Johnson | Black. Queer. Southern. Women. | Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South,

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White Houses by Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom | White Houses | Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt’s first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in

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A Month Among the Men by Maryse Choisy

Maryse Choisy | A Month Among the Men | There are 8,000 men in the monastic community of Mount Athos — and for more than 1,000 years not one female has been allowed to set foot there. Not a

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We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib

Samra Habib | We Have Always Been Here | ‘A queer Muslim searches for the language to express her truest self, making peace with her sexuality, her family, and Islam. Growing up in Pakistan,

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Coming Out

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

Glennon Doyle | Untamed | ‘There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends

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She Will Rise by Katie Hill

Katie Hill | She Will Rise | Former Congresswoman Katie Hill shares her experience with misogyny and double standards in politics to help women topple the longstanding power struc

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Everybody (Else) Is Perfect by Gabrielle Korn

Gabrielle Korn | Everybody (Else) Is Perfect | From the former editor-in-chief of Nylon comes a provocative and intimate collection of personal and cultural essays featuring eye-opening exploration