Biography and Memoir
Welcome to the Biography and Memoir section of Books, Poetry & More, where every story is a journey into the heart of human experience. Here, you’ll find carefully curated biographies and memoirs that reveal the intimate details of remarkable lives—stories of resilience, identity, and transformation.
Whether you seek inspiration from the life of a celebrated figure or a quietly powerful memoir from a lesser-known voice, this collection offers honest and reflective narratives that connect us all. Dive into these personal stories that bridge history and memory, inviting you to explore the many facets of what it means to be human.
Anita Anand’s The Patient Assassin tells the story of Sardar Udham Singh, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Michael O’Dwyer, revenge, memory, and colonial injustice.
Gita Ramaswamy’s Land, Guns, Caste, Woman is a powerful memoir about activism, caste, bonded labour, land struggles, and rural Telangana.
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes a an emotional and moving farewell by the author to his parents.
Yashica Dutt’s Coming Out as Dalit is a personal and political memoir about caste, shame, identity, and what it means to stop hiding one’s Dalit identity.
Farah Bashir’s Rumours of Spring is a moving memoir of growing up in Kashmir during the 1990s, capturing fear, memory, conflict, family life, and everyday survival.
Authorised biography of Kanu Sanyal. The Naxal leader of the tribal and peasant uprising of Naxalbari in West Bengal
First in the book of autobiography of Maya Angelou, capturing her childhood days till the age of seventeen.
A memoir by Viktore Frankl of his sufferings in the Nazi concentration camps and how he endured all of it to come out and tell it to the world
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A review of Illiberal India by Chidanand Rajghatta, a personal account of Gauri Lankesh’s life and work set against the changing political and social landscape of India and Karnataka.
A review of Lone Fox Dancing, Ruskin Bond’s intimate autobiography about childhood, loneliness, friendship, becoming a writer and finding a home in the hills of Mussoorie.