biography & memoir                   

Biographies and Memoir

Battling prejudice. Witnessing the horrors of war. Overcoming a debilitating disease. Touching young minds. Finding the person you're meant to spend the rest of your life with. Loving this good Southern land and the people who live on it. You can learn a lot from these authors.

Adding Value: The Joseph M. Bryan Story from Poverty to Philanthropy

Ned Cline

All Guts, No Glory
Bill Elder


Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember
edited by Belinda Hurmence

Being a Boy
Paxton Davis

A Boy No More
Paxton Davis

A Boy's War
Paxton Davis

Boys of the Battleship North Carolina
Cindy Horrell Ramsey


The Bridge Crew
Sam Shumate

Built on a Rock: A Memoir of Family, Faith and Place
Jerry D. Neal with Jerry Bledsoe

Bus Ride to Justice:
The Life and Works of Fred Gray
Fred Gray

Call Me Mickey
Wint Capel

Charley Craft: The Life and Times of a North Carolinian Turned Oklahoma Homesteader, 1872-1934
Neal Lineback

Charlotte Hawkins Brown: One Woman's Dream
Diane Silcox-Jarrett

Christmas in My Bones

W. C. "Mutt" Burton

Climbing Jacob's Ladder
Jock M. Smith with Paul Hemphill

Coming Home: Life, Love, and All Things Southern
Robert Inman

Country Cured: Reflections from the Heart
Jerry Bledsoe

The Courage to Lead: One Man's Journey in Public Service
Howard N. Lee

Deep Family: A Personal History
Dallas Read

Erdmuth Dorothea: Countess Von Zinzendorf
Erika Geiger

Faith and Works: The Business, Politics, and Philanthropy of Alabama's Jimmy Faulkner
Elvin Stanton

Fire in the Belly: Building a World-Leading High-Tech Company from Scratch in Tumultuous Times
Jerry D. Neal with Jerry Bledsoe

General Robert F. Hoke: Lee's Modest Warrior
Daniel W. Barefoot

A Gift Before Dying
Stephen Thompson

Good Morning! Forty Years on America's Longest Running and Most Successful Local TV Show
Lee Kinard

Grabtown Girl: Ava Gardner's North Carolina Childhood and Her Enduring Ties to Home
Doris Rollins Cannon

Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution

Steve Suitts

I Was Born in Slavery
edited by Andrew Waters

In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone
Randell Jones

In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett
Randell Jones

In the Footsteps of Robert E. Lee
Clint Johnson

In the Footsteps of Stonewall Jackson
Clint Johnson

A Judge in the Senate: Howell Heflin's Career of Politics and Principle
John and Clara Ruth Hayman

The Judge: The Life and Opinions of Alabama's Frank M. Johnson, Jr.
Frank Sikora

Keeper of the Moon: A Southern Boyhood
Tim McLaurin


King of the Mountain: The Jerry Moore Story
Dick Brown

The Lee Girls
Mary P. Coulling

The Life of General Francis Marion: A Celebrated Partisan Officer, in the Revolutionary War, Against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia
Brigadier General P. Horry and Parson M. L. Weems

Linthead: Growing Up in a Carolina Cotton Mill Village
Wilt Browning

Millie-Christine: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
Joanne Martell

Mighty Rough Times, I Tell You
edited by Andrea Sutcliffe

Mother and Me: An Intimate Memoir of Her Last Years
Virginia Pounds Brown

My CCC Days
Frank Davis

My Folks Don't Want Me To Talk About Slavery
edited by Belinda Hurmence

My Pee Dee River Hills: A Remembered Place
Chris Florance


Nobody But the People
Warren A. Trest

Nobody Left to Ask: A Memoir of Family
Phil Link

On Any Given Day
Joe Martin with Ross Yockey

On Jordan's Stormy Banks
edited by Andrew Waters

Orlean Puckett: The Life of a Mountain Midwife, 1844-1939
Karen Cecil Smith

Orville Hicks: Mountain Stories, Mountain Roots
Julia Taylor Ebel

Partial to Home: A Memoir of the Heart
Bob Timberlake with Jerry Bledsoe

The People's Lawyer: The Colorful Life and Times of Julian L. McPhillips, Jr.
Carroll Dale Short

A Picture of the Past
Taylor Reese

A Place for Joe
Elizabeth Leland

Plum Thickets and Field Daisies
Rose Leary Love

The Politics of Presidential Appointment: A Memoir of the Culture War
Sheldon Hackney


Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana
Rheta Grimsley Johnson

Prayin' to Be Set Free: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Mississippi
Andrew Waters

The Privilege to Paint: The Lives of Francis Speight & Sarah Blakeslee
Maurice C. York

Promise Land: A Farmer Remembers
Dori Sanders

Recollections and Reflections
Wade Edward Brown

Recovering from Mortality: Essays from a Caner Limbo Time
Deborah Cumming

The River Less Run: A Memoir
Tim McLaurin

Shuffletown, USA

Judy Rozzelle

They Call Me Big House
Clarence E. Gaines with Clint Johnson

Thirty Years A Slave: From Bondage to Freedom
Louis Hughes

Sand in My Shoes
Katharine Ball Ripley

We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard
edited by Belinda Hurmence

A White Preacher's Message on Race and Reconciliation
Robert S. Graetz

The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement
Bob Zellner with Constance Curry

 


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