memoirs and autobiographies

By GLENN GAMBOA - AP Business Writer Padma Lakshmi's career has been filled with highlights, from creating the Hulu series “Taste the Nation” to hosting “Top Chef” to writing a best-selling memoir and…

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER, DAVID KEYTON and JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French author Annie Ernaux won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for blending fiction and autobiography…

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)Stephanie Vander Wel, University at Buffalo(THE CONVERSATION) Loretta Lynn’s death at the age of 90 marks the…

By KRISTIN M. HALL - AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of…

By HILLEL ITALIE - AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Obama will have a book out this fall, “The Light We Carry,” in which she reflects upon her experiences and shares insights on navigating an…

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's election-year fight with fellow Republicans in the…

“Foreverland,” by Heather Havrilesky (Ecco)I thought I was doing OK with the pandemic, but the recent surge…

“I felt very much as if I were representing 15, 18 million people with every move I made.” — From his memoir.“It’s a choice, a clear choice. If the fabric of the society were different, I would scream to high heaven to play villains and to…

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Block attended Antioch College, the setting for his extra-pulpy novel “Campus Tramp,” but never graduated and eventually settled in New York. Ambitious and prolific, he would take on the kind of assignments not generally discussed at the…