What are the best celebrity memoirs to read?

Our curated celebrity memoirs selection highlights highly rated biography titles — a strong starting point for readers who value quality over quantity.

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Celebrity Memoirs

If celebrity memoirs is on your reading list, you're in the right place. We've pulled together a focused selection of biography books — from enduring classics to the titles everyone is talking about right now.

Celebrity Memoir

by Hannah Yelin

2020

In this timely analysis of the economics of access that surround contemporary female celebrity, Hannah Yelin reveals a culture that requires women to be constantly ‘baring all’ in physical exposure and psychic confessions. As famous women t…

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Sketches of Hull Celebrities; Or, Memoirs and Correspondence of Alderman Thomas Johnson, (who was Twice Mayor of Kingston-upon-Hull,) and Four of His Lineal Descendents, from the Year 1640 to 1858

by Thomas Johnson

1876

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Me Cheeta: The Autobiography

by Cheeta

2009

The incredible, moving and hilarious story of Cheeta the Chimp, simian star of the big screen, on a behind-the-scenes romp through the golden years of Hollywood. As heard on Radio 4, starring Jon Malcovich and Julian Sands.…

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