Discover Indie Books in Memoir & Biography
Browse independently published Memoir & Biography books listed by the authors who wrote them. Find hidden gems, rising voices, and community-loved reads all in one place.
Behind Closed Doors
In 2005, Jean Macbeth typed out her story as a form of therapy. Reliving the events during writing was deeply traumatic, and the prospect of revisiting them in detail kept the manuscript untouched for...
The Long Nightmare: My Family's Journey With Dementia
The Long Nightmare: My Family’s Journey with Dementia is a deeply moving and faith-filled account of one family’sbattle with a disease that keeps coming, touching generations. The author invites r...
By: Joan Evans
FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE: A BRAIDED MEMOIR
From the Cyclops Cave: A Braided Memoir intertwines past and present, weaving a turbulent childhood in 1950s California with an adult life shaped by solitude on a Cycladic island in Greece. Aband...
By: Don Schofield
Teenage Runaway
One boy. One backpack. One shot at freedom.In 1967, fifteen-year-old Ronald Schulz packed HIS bag, left a note on his dresser, and walked away from everything he knew-Family, friends, home...
By: Ronald Schulz
Stagehand:A Backstage Pass to my Life Stories
Mick Jagger, Tony Bennett, Michael Jackson and Prince, I have worked with them all. Along with actors such as Michelle Rodriguez, Will Smith, and Roddy McDowall. And many more. I traveled around the w...
By: David Aretsky
In A Gadda Da Vida
17 minutes... so much can happen to a person in 17 minutes... ones life can dramatically change during those one thousand and twenty seconds of inexorable time... In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by the Iron Butter...
By: Stark Hunter
Memories Of Monsters
This isn’t a memoir about monsters hiding under the bed.It’s about the ones who smile…who charm…who promise forever…and sometimes say, “I love you.”Through a series of monster archetypes...
A Bilagáana Boy among the Navajo
How did a white kid like me come to live on the Navajo Reservation in the 1960s?In 1965, six-year-old Jay is witness to his mother’s affair and mental breakdown after his father’s lengthy military...
By: Jay Jones
Bruce Lee: The Shaolin Mystic
This isn't a memoir. At least, not in the conventional sense. This book is a journey through experience, transformation, and Mysticism intentionally immortalized in words.It's a vivid exploration of l...
The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege
Some people are irreparably damaged. Michael Anderson is not one of them. The Lifer and the Lawyer raises questions about childhood trauma, r...
By: George Critchlow
BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE LIMOUSINE INDUSTRY
The Pros and Cons of becoming and working in the Public and Corporate sector Livery ( AKA: LIMO INDUSTRY) Industry. This is a true Biography Chicagoan by the name of Raul Perales. He has been a Corpor...
By: Raul Perales
Home at the Edge
In the tumultuous backdrop of the 1969 Chicago Haymarket riot, Ron, a spirited seventeen-year-old, finds himself ensnared in the complexities of Cook County jail. As he navigates this new world, he fo...
By: Ronald Schulz