A largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean becomes George Washington's aide-de-camp, a founding father, and the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.

This genre-bending memoir blends the personal, the political, and the philosophical into a distinctive story of love, pregnancy, feminism, family, and freedom.

Schiff separates fact from fiction to reconstruct the life and world of the most influential woman in ancient Egypt.

This memoir weaves universal themes of nature, nurture, and memory with the narrator’s own coming out, her father’s hidden queerness, and his mysterious death.

This groundbreaking memoir details the death of Eggers's parents and his experience raising his younger brother.

Maya Angelou endures racism, trauma, and poverty in 1930s Arkansas and overcomes them through the strength of her character and the power of literature.

The author recounts her difficult childhood growing up in a Texas oil town.

A son struggles to come to terms with his parents' experiences during the Holocaust.

A precocious young girl shares her experience of growing up in Tehran through political unrest and the Islamic Revolution.

A first-generation Chinese-American woman recounts growing up in America in this blend of memoir and folktale.