Fellow lovers of the rock and roll memoir: It's a truly great time to be alive. Hot on the heels of Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band, Penguin Random House has announced that The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde is working on "an incredibly frank" tell-all of her own. » 3/04/15 5:50pm 52 minutes ago

There's been tons of publicity around Lena Dunham's and Amy Poehler's new books, so it's no surprise that sales wise, the lady memoirs race is pretty even. » 11/13/14 12:10pm 11/13/14 12:10pm

Since her badass 13-hour filibuster in 2013, Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis has more or less become the face of abortion and broader women's rights in Texas. In her upcoming autobiographical novel, Forgetting to Be Afraid: A Memoir, Davis reveals her personal experiences with abortion, having terminated… » 9/06/14 12:30pm 9/06/14 12:30pm

Cleary Wolters, the woman who viewers know as the inspiration for Alex on Netflix's Orange is the New Black, is now writing a book about her life. » 8/19/14 10:00am 8/19/14 10:00am

Lindsay Lohan is working on her memoir. It will reportedly be a trilogy. Lohan is 28 years old. » 8/18/14 4:30pm 8/18/14 4:30pm

Discredited memoir author and former Gawker intern James Frey has just signed a mega deal with publisher HarperCollins to produce a young-adult book series. » 1/22/14 11:28pm 1/22/14 11:28pm

Those of you who were waiting with bated breath for Amanda Knox and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito to pen dueling memoirs will rejoice at the news that both have acquired literary agents. According to TMZ, Knox has signed with Robert Barnett, who has also represented a bipartisan slate of political memoirists… » 12/05/11 4:10pm 12/05/11 4:10pm

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has written a book. Unfortunately, much of that book tries to justify all that lying the Bush administration did to get us into Iraq. Fortunately, she spends some of the book indulging the public's desire to learn about how everyone in the Bush White House was behind closed… » 10/24/11 4:30pm 10/24/11 4:30pm

Next year the British publisher of Anne Frank's diary will release a diary by Helga Weiss, one of the few children from the Czech ghetto of Terezin who survived Auschwitz. Weiss, who grew up to be an internationally known artist, was confronted by Josef Mengele in the camps, but managed to save herself and her mother… » 10/17/11 10:40am 10/17/11 10:40am

1. That week in 1975 she "disappeared" with Bob Marley. » 7/11/11 6:00pm 7/11/11 6:00pm

Julian Assange said he hoped his memoirs "would become one of the unifying documents of our generation." That'll have to wait: The book's been postponed until further notice, because Assange is afraid of the contents being used against him legally. » 7/07/11 5:18pm 7/07/11 5:18pm

If you're in the market for a truly inspiring memoir this year, you're in luck — Jesse James reportedly has a deal with Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. The book will apparently come out later this year, so you only have a few months to wait for James's wisdom. » 2/21/11 12:48pm 2/21/11 12:48pm

Call me old-fashioned, but I've always believed a certain degree of discretion — or, really, confidentiality — should prevail in professions like gynecology, drugstore clerking and bikini waxing. And now I'm thinking this should extend to bra-fitting. » 10/14/10 4:15pm 10/14/10 4:15pm

Rachel Shukert's new memoir Everything Is Going To Be Great does something unfortunately rare in women's writing: celebrating mistakes. » 7/20/10 2:45pm 7/20/10 2:45pm

Ready for another "coming-of-age" memoir? Well, since this one grows in a Bronx housing project and becomes a Supreme Court Justice, we are. Sonia Sotomayor just signed a book deal with Knopf for an as-yet-untitled memoir. » 7/12/10 1:42pm 7/12/10 1:42pm