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278 Books in the BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women Category

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We Deserve to Heal: Black Women on the Perils and Promises of Friendship with White Women Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much The Look (Signed Deluxe Edition) The Look Tenderheaded: A Memoir Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-Possession Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler And Then Came the Blues: My Story of Survival on Both Sides of the Badge How to Become a Black Writer: Creating and Honoring Black Stories That Matter (the Power of Black Stories, Inspiration for Black Storytellers) Mainline Mama: A Memoir Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging Lovely One: A Memoir Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People I Curse You with Joy It Wasn’t Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories Coming Home Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America Up Home: One Girl’s Journey Autumn Song: Essays on Absence Wreck: A Daughter’s Memoir of Becoming a Mother Angela Davis (paperback): An Autobiography Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable Narrative of Sojourner Truth The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times Unbought and Unbossed Bright: A Memoir Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison Where the Children Take Us Blend In or Fade Out Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way Civil Rights Queen Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist Vice President Kamala Harris: Her Path to the White House Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues Legend You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be Aftershocks Beginnings, Endings, and Salt: Essays All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir Becoming The Officer’s Daughter: A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America Queens of the Resistance: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Queens of the Resistance: Elizabeth Warren Queens of the Resistance: Maxine Waters Queens of the Resistance: Nancy Pelosi Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography Of Ida B. Wells Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker Golden Beauty Boss: The Story of Madame Sara Spencer Washington and the Apex Empire Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America Becoming Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage 100+ Black Women in Horror Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own Reflecting Rogue: Inside the Mind of a Feminist Blessed Life: My Surprising Journey of Joy, Tears, and Tales from Harlem to Hollywood Hidden Figures Illustrated The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race We’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice Alice Walker: A Woman for Our Times (Women Writers of Color) What Is Africa to Me?: Fragments of a True-to-Life Autobiography Around the Way Girl: A Memoir Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom Finding Oprah’s Roots: Finding Your Own This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less Eye On the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge My Life, My Love, My Legacy Heav’nly Tidings From the Afric Muse: The Grace and Genius of Phillis Wheatley Poet Laureate of the American Revolution Pressure Makes Diamonds Cockroaches Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones Believing in Magic: My Story of Love, Overcoming Adversity, and Keeping the Faith Hidden Figures Born Bright: A Young Girl’s Journey from Nothing to Something in America The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl Walking with the Muses: A Memoir My Voice: A Memoir The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice Pink Pantie Confessions Battles: More Stories from The Mee Street Chronicles The Face That Changed It All: A Memoir Vindicated: Confessions Of A Video Vixen, Ten Years Later After The Dance: My Life With Marvin Gaye Ordinary Light: A Memoir Eye On The Struggle: Ethel Payne, The First Lady Of The Black Press Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina True Love Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance Essence Maya Angelou: Her Phenomenal Life & Poetic Journey Nine Years Under Unbreak My Heart: A Memoir A Joyous Revolt: Toni Cade Bambara, Writer and Activist (Women Writers of Color) Stand Up Straight and Sing! Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian Miss Lou: Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture 60 Black Women in Horror Fiction Daddy Polished My Shoes Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina Reflections from Zora!: Celebrating 25 Years of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities A Renegade Called Simphiwe Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person Miss Anne In Harlem: The White Women Of The Black Renaissance Game Over The Lost Daughter: A Memoir Phd To Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life Ain’t Nothing Like Freedom Radical: Fighting To Put Students First The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life Of Motown’s First Superstar Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters Almost a Woman: A Memoir Long Shot: My Bipolar Life and the Horses Who Saved Me ’For Us It Was Heaven’: The Passion, Grief and Fortitude of Patience Darton Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography Of Class And Color Brothers (and Me): A Memoir of Loving and Giving The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker Second Chance: The Martha Marie Preston Story A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother Dust Tracks On A Road: An Autobiography She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story Is It Just Me?: Or Is It Nuts Out There? Going Rogue: An American Life Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations Foxy: My Life In Three Acts Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother’s Story Black, Just Like My Mama: Saga Of A Black Woman Growing Up In America The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir (Touchstone Books (Paperback)) Letter to My Daughter Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers The Vixen Diaries Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain From Harvey River: A Memoir Of My Mother And Her Island The Heart of a Woman (paperback) Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Gather Together In My Name Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad Michelle Obama: First Lady Of Hope Porch Stories: A Grandmother’s Guide to Happiness Led by Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide (Left to Tell) That Mean Old Yesterday: A Memoir One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life--A Story Of Race And Family Secrets Alek: My Life from Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution (Gender and American Culture) The Women Who Raised Me: A Memoir Breaking The Code Of Silence The Busy Woman’s Little Book of Motivation: 42 Morsels of Motivation To Help You Live Out Loud and Become The Phenomenal Woman You Were Born To Be Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes The Vixen Diaries Brother, I’m Dying Unbowed: A Memoir Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit (Women Writers of Color) Do Me Twice: My Life After Islam An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege Brown Sugar: Over 100 Years of America’s Black Female Superstars (New and Updated Edition) Idoleyes: My New Perspective on Faith, Fat & Fame Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50 Friends: A Love Story Infidel My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots Uncrowned Queens, Volume 4: African American Women Community Builders of Oklahoma Diary Of A Woman Pastor Jokes My Father Never Taught Me: Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor Confessions of a Video Vixen My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away If the Creek Don’t Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, 10th Anniversary Edition Mixed: My Life in Black and White Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography Shifting Gears: My Global Bike Odyssey Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House Bessie: Revised and Expanded Edition The Promise: How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of 1st Graders to College We Flew Over The Bridge: The Memoirs Of Faith Ringgold Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture) Migrations Of The Heart: An Autobiography Don’t Play in the Sun: One Woman’s Journey Through the Color Complex Uncrowned Queens, Volume 3: African American Women Community Builders of Western New York Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes Wendy’s Got the Heat Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston The Book of African-American Women: 150 Crusaders, Creators, and Uplifters Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights Zora Neale Hurston: A Life In Letters Chaka! Through the Fire Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South Still with Me: A Daughter’s Journey of Love and Loss Pieces from Life’s Crazy Quilt Growing Up X Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights Conversations with Margaret Walker A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging If You Can’t Be Free, Be A Mystery: In Search Of Billie Holiday Come By Here: My Mother’s Life I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography Of A Shifting Self On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker Assata: An Autobiography The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart Becoming American: Personal Essays By First Generation Immigrant Women Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood Las Mamis: Favorite Latino Authors Remember Their Mothers Beloved Sisters And Loving Friends: Letters From Rebecca Primus Of Royal Oak, Maryland, And Addie Brown Of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868 My Strength Comes from Within Angel on My Shoulder: An Autobiography Souls of My Sisters: Black Women Break Their Silence, Tell Their Stories and Heal Their Spirits The Prisoner’s Wife Nappy: Growing Up Black and Female in America The Mother of Us All: A History of Queen Nanny, Leader of the Windward Jamaican Maroons Marian Anderson Sweet Summer: Growing up with and without My Dad A Small Place Everything and Nothing: The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy Sister Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African American Women’s History (Autographed, 1st Edition) The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey Mary: An Autobiography (Chapel Hill Books) Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life Do They Hear You When You Cry Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life"; Also, a Mem My One Good Nerve Speaking Truth to Power Between Each Line of Pain and Glory: My Life Story Dorothy Dandridge (1998) Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood I’m Going to Have a Little House: The Second Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus (Engendering Latin America) Mama’s Girl Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years Don’t Block the Blessings Drops of This Story Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol No Disrespect To Be Young, Gifted and Black Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now Conversations With Toni Morrison (Literary Conversations) A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story His Eye Is On The Sparrow: An Autobiography (Quality Paperbacks Series) Black Ice Zami: A New Spelling Of My Name - A Biomythography (Crossing Press Feminist Series) Ms. Africa: Profiles of Modern African Women