A writer becomes the target of a student’s destructive obsession.

A memoir of a mind, ravaged and rebuilt.

A record of conflict viewed through the lens of one author's life.

Unearthing family secrets while resisting the impulse to curry sympathy or self-mythologize.

Salman Rushdie unfolds the story of a writer''s life plunged into nightmare by a dying cleric's verdict on his novel.

A writer's attempt to capture the life that only the body knows.

Working the front desk at The New Yorker.

The first volume in the memoir of a "narrative wizard" confronts the author's contentious relationship with his father.

After her mother's death, the author and environmentalist found a silent mystery.

A record of death defied and life well lived.

Recalling a fallen friend.

A woman renounces her strict religious upbringing.

A meditation on loss from the author of Making Toast.

A veteran journalist looks back at his fraught relationship with his father.

In a searing new memoir, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking reflects on motherhood, loss, and memory.

The "King of Calypso" recounts a life of achievements and activism.

An editor's memory of two literary legends, and a collaboration that left a lasting impact.

 Alexandra Styron has written an extraordinarily sensitive biography of her father, the author of Sophie's Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner.

An editor finds himself behind the counter in this memoir of a family retail experiment.

The pathbreaking chef of Alinea.

An ancient art of recollection, rediscovered by modern "memory athletes."

From the author of House of Sand and Fog, a self-portrait of the novelist as a young tough.

An ingenious writer reconfigures his own past.

An Israeli artist's adventures in the heyday of bohemian Manhattan.

The author of The Woman Warrior savors each "scrap of moment" in this fiery memoir.

A natural and domestic history of an author's love affair with a rugged corner of Wyoming.

A "Don't try this at home" memoir from the man who wrote "Satisfaction" in his sleep.

The author of Smashed returns with a second memoir, a diary-like exploration of her angers and their repression.

Edmund de Waal traces his Jewish family—and their collection of Japanese netsuki—through 19th- and 20th-century European history.

A single mother's affecting memoir of adoption, small town life, and constructing moments of order amid life's chaos.