Biography and Memoir
June 2025
Books NEW to our collection
Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without...
by Dave Barry

Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist and novelist Dave Barry (Swamp Story) offers freewheeling reflections on his life and literary career in his first memoir. For fans of: David Sedaris. *This book may be requested from our LibShare partner, Marion Co. Public Libraries.
Mark Twain
by Ron Chernow

In his well-researched latest, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow (Alexander Hamilton) offers a nuanced and richly detailed portrait of writer Mark Twain that's been deemed a "monumental achievement" (Booklist) and "essential reading" (Kirkus Reviews). For fans of: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin. 
A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
by Rachel E. Cargle

Black queer activist Rachel E. Cargle's empowering blend of self-help and memoir reveals how she created her knowledge, empathy, and action (KEA) framework to dismantle oppressive systems and create healing ones in their place. Further reading: How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir by Shayla Lawson.
I Was Better Last Night
by Harvey Fierstein

This witty memoir from four-time Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein explores the author's coming out and commitment to gay rights activism, his creative process and artistic coming of age, and working on Broadway hits including Torch Song Trilogy, La Cage aux Folles, and Kinky Boots. Try this next: Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life by Alan Cumming.
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