113 Books in the Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts Category

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Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much Bottom of the Pyramid: A Memoir of Persevering, Dancing for Myself, and Starring in My Own Life Fearless and Free: A Memoir Growing Up Urkel Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative The Road Is Good: How a Mother’s Strength Became a Daughter’s Purpose Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood The Dow Twins’ Legacy: 50 Years of Disco Reflections Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life Top Billin’:Stories of Laughter, Lessons, and Triumph The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson Scenes from My Life: A Memoir The Fame Game: An Insider’s Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes Walking in My Joy: In These Streets Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography After Dark: Birth of the Disco Dance Party In the Heights: Finding Home Cack-Handed: A Memoir Checking in: How Getting Real about Depression Saved My Life—And Can Save Yours For Your Consideration: Maya Rudolph Living in Color: What’s Funny about Me More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty Nigger: An Autobiography The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir The AutoThugOgraphy of Turk Hollywood Black Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry She Begat This: 20 Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist Blessed Life: My Surprising Journey of Joy, Tears, and Tales from Harlem to Hollywood Around the Way Girl: A Memoir Elizabeth and Michael: The Queen of Hollywood and the King of Pop_A Love Story I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It Kill ’Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain Eddie Green - The Rise of an Early 1900s Black American Entertainment Pioneer Before You Judge Me: The Triumph and Tragedy of Michael Jackson’s Last Days Walking with the Muses: A Memoir Every Little Step: My Story My Voice: A Memoir Survivor I Changed the Rules Snoop Dogg: Reincarnated The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken Vindicated: Confessions Of A Video Vixen, Ten Years Later The Half That’s Never Been Told: The Real-Life Reggae Adventures of Doctor Dread Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina True Love Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou Cosby: His Life and Times Rhythm For Sale Stand Up Straight and Sing! Furious Cool: Richard Pryor And The World That Made Him Madame Walker Theatre Center: An Indianapolis Treasure Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person Lies of a Real Housewife: Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil Game Over You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Holly wood, Love, Loss (and Each Other) Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-From South Central to Hollywood Joan Myers Brown & The Audacious Hope Of The Black Ballerina: A Biohistory Of American Performance I Didn’t Ask To Be Born: (But I’m Glad I Was) My Song: A Memoir Flavor Flav: The Icon The Memoir True You: A Journey To Finding And Loving Yourself African Rhythms: The Autobiography Of Randy Weston Is It Just Me?: Or Is It Nuts Out There? Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin Foxy: My Life In Three Acts Killing Willis: From Diff’rent Strokes To The Mean Streets To The Life I Always Wanted The Undiscovered Paul Robeson Quest for Freedom, 1939 - 1976 Michael Jackson: The Man behind the Mask Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask: An Insider’s Story of the King of Pop Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter The Heart of a Woman (paperback) Hiding In Hip Hop: On The Down Low In The Entertainment Industry--From Music To Hollywood The Women Who Raised Me: A Memoir It’s No Secret: From Nas to Jay-Z, from Seduction to Scandal—a Hip-Hop Helen of Troy Tells All Grace After Midnight: A Memoir Brown Sugar: Over 100 Years of America’s Black Female Superstars (New and Updated Edition) Hattie Mcdaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood The Measure of a Man If I Stop, I’ll Die: The Comedy and Tragedy of Richard Pryor Stepin Fetchit: The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry Jokes My Father Never Taught Me: Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor Spike Lee: That’s My Story and I’m Sticking to It Confessions of a Video Vixen A Hand to Guide Me The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten Voices in the Mirror: An Autobiography From Poverty To Power Moves Mae West: An Icon In Black And White Will Life And Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, + God If You Can’t Be Free, Be A Mystery: In Search Of Billie Holiday Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten Bad Boy: The Influence of Sean "Puffy" Combs on the Music Industry Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones Callus on My Soul: A Memoir The Undiscovered Paul Robeson An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939 The Brothers Neville With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together My One Good Nerve Dorothy Dandridge (1998) The Heart of a Woman To Be Young, Gifted and Black His Eye Is On The Sparrow: An Autobiography (Quality Paperbacks Series) Making of a Stand-Up Guy