| Memoirs and Biographies | |||
| Dana Hall School Library Holdings | |||
| Name | Title/Author (if not an autobiography) | Subject | Call Number |
| Albom, Mitch | Tuesdays with Morrie | writer; teacher-student relationships | 378.12 ALB |
| Angell, Roger | Let me finish | sportswriter; growing up with famous-writer parents | 070.440796092 ANG |
| Armstrong, Lance | It’s not about the bike: my journey back to life | champion cyclist; cancer survivor | 796.62 ARM |
| Ascher, Barbara Lazear | Landscape without gravity: a memoir of grief | AIDS | 155.937 ASC |
| Aubrac, Lucie | Outwitting the Gestapo | female French resistance fighter during WWII | 940.5344 AUB |
| Balanchine, George | George Balanchine : the ballet maker / Robert Gottlieb | choreographer | 792.82092 BAL |
| Beah, Ishmael | A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier | child soldier in Sierra Leone | 940.5318350943841 ACK |
| Beethoven, Ludwig van | Beethoven : the universal composer / Edmund Morris | composer | 780.92 BEE |
| Belichick, Bill | The education of a coach / David Halberstam | New England Patriots coach | 796.332077 HAL |
| Blum, Arlene | Annapurna: a woman's place | mountaineering | 796.5 BLU |
| Bok, Francis | Escape from slavery | Sudanese slave from 1986-1996 | 305.567092 BOK |
| Braithwaite, E.R. | To sir with love | teacher | 371.102 BRA |
| Brennan, Christine | Best seat in the house : a father, a daughter, a journey through sports | female sportswriter | 070.44979609 BRE |
| Brown, Chester | I never liked you : a comic-strip narrative | adolescence | 741.5971 BRO |
| Buck, Rinker and Kernahan | Flight of passage: a true story | transcontinental (U.S.) flight by teenage brothers | 629.13097 BUC |
| Caravaggio | Caravaggio : painter of miracles / Francine Prose | painter | 759.5 CAR |
| Cary, Lorene | Black ice | writer; African-American student attending a prep school | 373.18 CAR |
| Chang, Yu-i | Bound feet & western dress / Pang-Mei Natasha Chang | early 20th century Chinese feminist & her American granddaughter | 305.420951 CHA |
| Cohen, Leah Hager | Train go sorry: inside a deaf world | deafness | 305.90872 COH |
| Conley, Frances K., M.D. | Walking out on the boys | Stanford Univ. professor; gender discrimination | 617.48 CON |
| Crisp, Terri | Out of harm's way | animal rescuer | 639.9092 CRI |
| da Vinci, Leonardo | Leonardo / Martin Kemp | artist, inventor, Renaissance man | 709.2 KEM |
| Deng, Benson, Alephonsion Deng, and Benjamin Ajak | They poured fire on us from the sky : the true story of three Lost Boys from Sudan / with Judy A. Bernstein | child survivors of the Sudanese civil war in the late 1980s | 962.4043 DEN |
| Dew, Robb Forman | The family heart: a memoir of when our son came out | gay student and his family | 306.874 DEW |
| Dinesen, Isak | Out of Africa | Danish woman in Kenya | 967.62 DIN |
| Dominick, Andie | Needles | juvenile diabetes | 362.19892462 DOM |
| Donnelly, Michael | Falcon’s cry: a Desert Storm memoir | Persian Gulf War veteran | 956.704427 DON |
| Dubner, Stephen J. | Turbulent Souls: a Catholic son's return to his Jewish family | religion | 248.246 DUB |
| Eire, Carlos | Waiting for snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban boy | Cuban immigrant | 972.9123063 EIR |
| Erlbaum, Janice | Girlbomb : a halfway homeless memoir | teen runaway | 362.74 ERL |
| Felt, W. Mark | The secret man : the story of Watergate's Deep Throat / Bob Woodward | informant during Watergate scandal | 973.924092 WOO |
| Fenelon, Fania | Playing for time | musician; Holocaust | 940.54 FEN |
| Fernandez Barrios, Flor | Blessed by thunder : memoir of a Cuban girlhood | growing up in Castro's Cuba | 972.91064 FER |
| Fiffer, Steve | Three quarters, two dimes, and a nickel: a memoir of becoming whole | writer; physical disability | 362.43092 FIF |
| Finneran, Kathleen | The tender land: a family love story | suicide | 362.283 FIN |
| Firlik, Katria | Another day in the frontal lobe : a brain surgeon exposes life on the inside | female brain surgeon | 617.48092 FIR |
| Forna, Aminatta | The devil that danced on the water | growing up in Africa | 966.404092 FOR |
| Fossey, Dian | Woman in the mists: the story of Dian Fossey and the mountain gorillas of Africa / Farley Mowat | primatologist | 599.88 MOW |
| Fredston, Jill | Rowing to latitude: journeys along the Arctic’s edge | single-boat crew rowers’ journeys | 797.122 FRE |
| Fremont, Helen | After long silence: a memoir | child of Holocaust survivors discovers her family’s hidden Jewish roots | 940.5318 FRE |
| Fricke, Aaron | Reflections of a rock lobster: a story about growing up gay | gay teenager | 306.766 FRI |
| Fuller, Alexandra | Don’t lets go to the dogs tonight: an African childhood | racism | 968.9104 FUL |
| Fussell, Betty | My kitchen wars | gourmet, food writer, historian | 641.3092 FUS |
| Galdikas, Birute | Reflections of Eden: my years with the orangutans of Borneo | primatologist | 599.8092 GAL |
| Gardner, Chris | The pursuit of happyness / with Quincy Troupe and Mim Eichler Rivas | overcame homelessness to succeed as stockbroker | 323.62092 GAR |
| Goodall, Jane | Through a window : my thirty years with the chimpanzees of Gombe | zoologist | 599.885092 GOO |
| Gottlieb, Lori | Stick figure: a diary of my former self | anorexia nervosa | 616.85263 GOT |
| Grandin, Temple | Thinking in pictures and other reports from my life w/autism | autism | 616.8982 GRA |
| Grealy, Lucy | Autobiography of a face | coming to terms with facial disfigurement | 362.196994716 GRE |
| Hakakian, Roya | Journey from the land of no : a girlhood caught in revolutionary Iran | Iranian Jew, writer | 955.053 HAK |
| Harkness, Ruth | The lady and the panda / Vicki Constantine Croke | first American to bring back a giant panda | 599.789092 CRO |
| Harold, Hughina | Totem poles and tea | nurse and teacher in remote Native Canadian village in the 1930s | 971.103 HAR |
| Hinojosa, Maria | Raising Raul: adventures raising myself and my son | Mexican-American journalist | 306.8743 HIN |
| Hockenberry, John | Moving violations : war zones, wheelchairs, and declarations of independence | journalist; phyical disability | 362.43 HOC |
| Holiday, Billie | Lady sings the blues | jazz singer | 781.643 HOL |
| Hooks, Bell | Bone black: memories of girlhood | writer | 305.48896073 HOO |
| Hornbacher, Marya | Wasted: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia | eating disorders | 616.85263 HOR |
| House, Callie | My face is black is true / Mary Frances Berry | leader in the fight for ex-slave reparations | 323.092 BER |
| Howey, Noelle | Dress codes: of three girlhoods - my mother’s, my father’s, and mine | transsexuality | 306.874 HOW |
| Iacuzzo, Terry | Small mediums at large : the true tale of a family of psychics | professional psychic | 130.92 IAC |
| Jaffrey, Madhur | Climbing the mango trees : a memoir of a childhood in India | Indian chef and food writer's childhood | 641.5092 JAF |
| Jamison, Kay Redfield | An unquiet mind | manic depression | 616.895 JAM |
| Jennings, Kevin | Mama's boy, preacher's son | teacher, founder of GLSEN and first school gay/straight alliance | 306.7662092 JEN |
| Jiang, Ji-Li | Red scarf girl: a memoir of the Cultural Revolution | growing up in China, 1966-1969 | 951.056 JIA |
| Johnston, Tracy | Shooting the Boh: a woman's voyage down the wildest river in Borneo | adventure | 915.983 JOH |
| Kang Chol-hwan | The aquariums of Pyongyang : ten years in a North Korean gulag / with Pierre Rigoulot | childhood in a North Korean labor camp | 365.45 KAN |
| Kassindja, Fauziya | Do they hear you when you cry | African political refugee | 305.48691 KAS |
| Kaysen, Susanna | Girl, interrupted | mental illness | 616.890092 KAY |
| Kim, Richard E. | Lost names : scenes from a Korean boyhood | growing up in Korea during the Japanese occupation, 1932-1945 | 951.903 KIM |
| Kincaid, Jamaica | A small place | Antiguan writer | 972.92 KIN |
| Klein, Gerda Weissman | All but my life | Holocaust survivor | 940.5318 KLE |
| Knapp, Caroline | Drinking: a love story | journlist's fight with alcoholism | 362.292 KNA |
| Kuffel, Frances | Passing for thin : Losing half my weight and finding my self | losing weight | 362.196398 KUF |
| Lee, Andrea | Russian journal | account of a year in Russia | 947.0853 LEE |
| Lee, Harper | Mockingbird : a portrait of Harper Lee / Charles S. Shields | author | 813.54 LEE |
| Lopez, Barry Holstun | About this life | writer | 814.54 LOP |
| Lord, Bette Bao | Legacies: a Chinese mosaic | Chinese American writer | 951.05 LOR |
| Lorde, Audre | Warrior poet : a biography of Audre Lorde / Alexis DeVeaux | lesbian poet and activist | 811.54 LOR |
| Louganis, Greg | Breaking the surface | Olympic diver living with AIDS | 797.24 LOU |
| Maathai, Wangari | Unbowed | Kenyan environmentalist; Nobel Peace Prize winner | 333.72092 MAA |
| Marley, Bob | Bob Marley / Stephen Davis | reggae musician | 782.42164 DAV |
| Mason, Mary Grimley | Life prints: a memoir of healing and discovery | polio survivor; autobiography scholar | 362.196835 MAS |
| Mathabane, Mark | Kaffir boy: the true story of a black youth's coming of age in apartheid South Africa | South Africa; apartheid | 968.06092 MAT |
| McCall, Nathan | Makes me wanna holler : a young Black man in America | African-American male | 305.38 MCC |
| McCune, Emma | Emma's war : a true story / Deborah Scroggins | British relief worker in Sudan | 962.404 SCR |
| Min, Anchee | Red azalea | Chinese Cultural Revolution | 951.05 MIN |
| Montez, Lola (1818-1861) | Lola Montez: a life / Bruce Seymour | notorious Victorian-era adventurer | 943.307092 SEY |
| Montgomery, Lee | The things between us | wealthy family in Framingham | 306.874092 MON |
| O'Brien, Tim | If I die in the combat zone | Vietnam War | 959.70438 OBR |
| Ojito, Mirta | Finding manana : a memoir of a Cuban exodus | escaping Cuba | 972.91064 OJI |
| Opdyke, Irene Gut | In my hands: memories of a Holocaust rescuer | Holocaust rescuer in Poland | 940.5318 OPD |
| Pepin, Jacques | The apprentice : my life in the kitchen | chef | 641.5092 PEP |
| Pham, Andrew X. | Catfish and Mandala | bicycle voyage to Vietnam | 915.070444 PHA |
| Pollock, Jackson | Jackson Pollock : a biography / Deborah Solomon | painter | 759.13 POL |
| Price, Reynolds | A whole new life | novelist confronts cancer | 616.99 PRI |
| Raine, Nancy Venable | After silence: my rape and the journey back | rape victim | 362.883092 RAI |
| Reichl, Ruth | Tender at the bone: growing up at the table | restaurant critic and cook | 641.5092 REI |
| Roberts, Monty | The man who listens to horses | groundbreaking horse trainer | 636.10835 ROB |
| Robertson, Adele Crockett | The orchard: a memoir | struggled to save her childhood home/farm during the Depression | 974.45 ROB |
| Robison, John Elder | Look me in the eye : my life with Asperger's | Asperger's Syndrome (autism) | 362.196 ROB |
| Rufeisen, Oswald | In the lion's den : the life of Oswald Rufeisen / Nechama Tec | Polish Jew who saved Jews from the Nazis | 940.5318 TEC |
| Sage, Lorna | Bad blood | growing up in post WWII Britain | 942.939 SAG |
| Salbi, Zainab | Between two worlds : escape from tyranny : growing up in the shadow of Saddam / with Laurie Becklund | growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq | 956.7044 SAL |
| Schiller, Lori | The quiet room: a journey out of the torment of madness | schizophrenia | 616.8982 SCH |
| Scholinski, Daphne | The last time I wore a dress | gender identity | 616.8583 SCH |
| Simon, Rachel | Riding the bus with my sister | sister has mental disability | 305.90824 SIM |
| Simpson, Eileen | Reversals | dyslexic writer | 616.8 SIM |
| Slater, Lauren | Welcome to my country | therapist's memoir of madness | 616.89 SLA |
| Smith, Bob | Hamlet's dresser | teacher and director of Shakespeare | 792.092 SMI |
| Steiker, Valerie | The leopard hat: A daughter's story | growing up in NYC with Belgian-Jewish mother | 306.8743 STE |
| Styron, William | Darkness visible: a memoir of madness | writer; depression | 616.8527 STY |
| Tammet, Daniel | Born on a blue day : inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant | autistic savant | 362.1968982 TAM |
| Thomas, Abigail | A three dog life | aftermath of husband's brain injury | 305.90826 THO |
| Turing, Alan | The man who knew too much : Alan Turing and the invention of the computer / David Leavitt | mathematician | 510.92 LEA |
| Wolff, Alexander | Big game, small world: a basketball adventure | sports writer’s world travels | 796.323 WOL |
| Wong, Mary | Nun: a memoir | former nun | 271.9 WON |
| Worth, Adam | The Napoleon of crime: the life and times of Adam Worth, master thief / Ben Macintyre | 19th-century criminal | 364.162 MAC |
| Yogananda, Paramhansa | Autobiography of a yogi | Indian spiritual leader | 181.4 YOG |
| Zaharias, Babe Didrikson | Babe: the life and legend of Babe Didrickson Zaharias / Susan E. Cayleff | athlete | 796.352092 CAY |
| Zeppa, Jamie | Beyond the sky and the earth: a journey into Bhutan | American woman teaching in Bhutan | 954.98 ZEP |
| © Helen Temple Cooke Library, Dana Hall School, 2003-2008 | |||
| Last updated 1.28.08 | |||