The 16 Best Autobiographies To Change Your View of History
These unbelievable stories stretch beyond the pages of your average history book.
By
Sarah Mangiola | Updated Mar 19, 2020 | Published Dec 25, 2018Marita: The Spy Who Loved Castro
By Marita Lorenz
Fragments of Isabella
By Isabella Leitner
Among the White Moon Faces
By Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Hitler's Last Secretary
By Traudl Junge
12, 20 & 5
By John A. Parrish
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By Frederick Douglass
The White Album
By Joan Didion
How I Became Hettie Jones
By Hettie Jones
A Moment of War
By Laurie Lee
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England to Me
By Emily Hahn
A Long Way Gone
By Ishmael Beah
Man Enough to Be a Woman
By Jayne County
Brown Girl Dreaming
By Jacqueline Woodson
All But My Life
By Gerda Weissmann Klein
First They Killed My Father
By Loung Ung
Born a Crime
By Trevor Noah
