Genre search:Biography & Memoir

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Ethics, biography, non-fiction, genetics, medicine, race
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Books
Status
Available
Call number
616.02774092

Wishful Drinking

by Carrie Fisher
Paperback, 2009
Tags
addiction, alcoholism, autobiography, celebrity, memoir, mental illness, non-fiction
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Books
Status
Available
Call number
791.43028092

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou
Paperback, 2009
Tags
African American, race, autobiography, non-fiction, memoir, racism
Collection
Books
Series
Maya Angelou's Autobiographies (1)
Status
Available
Call number
818.54092

Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

by Shonda Rhimes
Paperback, 2016
Tags
memoir, non-fiction, self-help, biography
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Available
Call number
808.2

Sex Object: A Memoir

by Jessica Valenti
Paperback, 2017
Tags
memoir, non-fiction, objectification
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Status
Available
Call number
305.42092

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

by Sheryl Sandberg
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
memoir, non-fiction, business, leadership, wage gap, self-help
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Status
Available
Call number
658.4

Bad Feminist: Essays

by Roxane Gay
Paperback, 2014
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essays, non-fiction, race, pop culture, memoir, racism
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Status
Available
Call number
814.6

The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72

by Molly Peacock
Paperback, 2012
Tags
art, 18th century, women in art, botany, history, Mary Delany, biography, memoir, art history
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Books
Status
Available
Call number
702.812092

The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

by Nathalia Holt
Paperback, 2020
Tags
Disney, animation, film, non-fiction, artists, biography
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Books
Status
Available
Call number
384.80979494

Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages

by Katie Roiphe
Paperback, 2008
Tags
biography, personal, anthology, marriage, england, non-fiction, relationships, romance
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Books
Status
Available
Call number
828.91209

Composing a Life (Plume)

by Mary Catherine Bateson
Paperback, 1990
Tags
anthropology, memoir, biography, non-fiction, self-help
Collection
Books
Series
Composing a Life (1)
Status
Available
Call number
305.40922

Feel Free: Essays

by Zadie Smith
Paperback, 2019
Tags
essays, short stories, nonfiction, feminism, memoir, contemporary, British literature
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Books
Status
Available
Call number
824.914

Lee Miller: A Life

by Carolyn Burke
Paperback, 2007
Tags
20th century, photography, art, biography, art history, Lee Miller, non-fiction, women in art, surrealism, WWII
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Status
Available
Call number
770.92

Cloris: My Autobiography

by Cloris Leachman
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
autobiography, celebrity, memoir, non-fiction
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Books
Status
Available
Call number
792.7

Ellen Browning Scripps: New Money and American Philanthropy

by Molly McClain
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
women, biography, non-fiction, Scripps College, travel
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Books
Status
Available
Call number
070.92

When We Were Ghouls: A Memoir of Ghost Stories (American Lives)

by Amy E. Wallen
Paperback, 2018
Tags
memoir, non-fiction, women, family, educational, biography
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Books
Status
Available
Call number
818.603

Open Wide The Freedom Gates: A Memoir

by Dorothy Height
Paperback, 2005
Tags
African American, biography, civil rights, history, memoir, race, racism
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Books
Status
Available
Call number
323.092

In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs

by Grace Bonney Editor
Paperback, 2020
Tags
nonfiction, business, feminism, art, self-help, leadership, strong women
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Books
Status
Available
Call number
338.092

Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh

by Alexander Walker
Paperback, 1994
Tags
biography, film, non-fiction, mental illness, actress
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Status
Available
Call number
792.028092

More than Gold in California: The Life and Work of Dr. Mary Bennett Ritter

by Gesa Kirsch Editor
Paperback, 2017
Tags
women's history, women in medicine, women pioneers, California history
Collection
Books
Status
Available
Call number
610.92

In My Mother's House

by Kim Chernin
Ebook, 2010
Tags
autobiography, biography, memoir, non-fiction, family
Collection
Books
Status
Available
Call number
335.43

America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (P.S.)

by Gail Collins
Paperback, 2007
Tags
America, American history, feminism, biography, gender studies, non-fiction, women's history, women's studies
Collection
Books
Status
Available
Call number
305.40973

Women Of Words: A Personal Introduction To Forty-five Important Writers Second Edition

by Janet Bukovinsky Teacher
Hardcover, 2002
Tags
literature, non-fiction, writing, biography, history
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Books
Status
Available
Call number
809.89287

Delta Jewels: In Search of My Grandmother's Wisdom

by Alysia Burton Steele
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
race, racism, biography, role models, photography
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Books
Status
Available
Call number
920.72089

Diving for Pearls: A Thinking Journey with Hannah Arendt

by Katheen B. Jones
Paperback, 2013
Tags
memoir, biography, personal
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Books
Status
Available
Call number
320.5092

Badass Babe Workbook: Creative Exercises, Drawing Activities, Empowering Stories, and Fuel for Your Personal Revolution, Inspired by Over 100 Trailblazing Women

by Julie Van Grol
Paperback, 2018
Tags
self-empowerment, women pioneers, self-help, arts & crafts, creativity
Collection
Books
Status
Available
Call number
305.42

The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm

by Juliet Nicolson
Paperback, 2008
Tags
england, non-fiction, social history, WWI, history, british
Collection
Books
Status
Available
Call number
942.083

Women of the West

by Cathy Luchetti
Paperback, 2001
Tags
America, 19th century, biography, non-fiction, pioneer, memoir, diary, letters
Collection
Books
Status
Available
Call number
305.4

Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream (Portraits of American Genius)

by Greg Sarris
Paperback, 2013
Tags
African American history, Native American, biography, indigenous studies, postmodernism, basketry, women's history, textiles
Collection
Books
Status
Available
Call number
973.04975

The Ways of My Grandmothers

by Beverly Hungry Wolf
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Native American, anthropology, biography, Blackfoot, culture, ethnography, history, non-fiction, women's studies, tribal lore, memoir
Collection
Books
Status
Available
Call number
970.004

Women in the Middle Ages (Medieval Life)

by Joseph Gies
Paperback, 2018
Tags
Europe, medieval, Middle Ages, non-fiction, biography
Collection
Books
Status
Available
Call number
305.4

Sweetheart of the Silent Majority

by Carol Felsenthal
Hardcover, 1981
Tags
women social reformers, women's rights, political activity, biography
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Books
Status
Available
Call number
305.4

Double Bind: Women on Ambition

by Robin Romm Editor
Paperback, 2018
Tags
essays, non-fiction, wage gap, leadership
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Books
Status
Available
Call number
305.42

The Dress Doctor

by Edith Head
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
beauty, fashion, design, biography, autobiography, performing arts, health & fitness
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Books
Status
Available
Call number
646.01

Their Day in the Sun: Women of the 1932 Olympics

by Doris Hinson Pieroth
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
biography, gender studies, sports, Olympics, women athletes, women in the Olympics
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Status
Available
Call number
796.48

A Shining Thread of Hope

by Darlene Clark Hine
Paperback, 1999
Tags
history, nonfiction, feminism, cultural, African American history
Collection
Books
Status
Available
Call number
305.48

Daring to Dream: The Life of Hazel Wood Waterman

by Sally Bullard Thornton
Hardcover, 1987
Tags
women's history, women's studies, architecture, breaking norms, women pioneers
Collection
Books
Status
Available
Call number
720.92

San Diego Originals: Profiles of the Movers and Shakers of California's First Community

by Theodore W. Fuller
Hardcover
Tags
San Diego history, California history, biography
Collection
Books
Status
Available
Call number
920.079498

Hellraisers, heroines, and holy women: Women's most remarkable contributions to history

by Jean F Blashfield
Paperback, 1981
Tags
biography, non-fiction
Collection
Books
Status
Available
Call number
305.4

A Wilder in the West: The Story of Eliza Jane Wilder

by William T. Anderson Editor
Paperback, 1991
Tags
biography, Laura Ingalls Wilder, juvenile literature, non-fiction, historical
Collection
Books
Status
Available
Call number
809

Pioneer girl;: The early life of Frances Willard,

by Clara Ingram Judson
Hardcover, 1939
Tags
biography, pioneer, history, children's
Collection
Books
Series
Clara Ingram Judson Biographies
Status
Available
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