Biographies Books by BIPOC Authors
Discover captivating biographies written by BIPOC authors.
- by Anand Gopal
- Biographies, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2026
From Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist Anand Gopal, a mesmerizing and powerful account of six Syrians fighting for a better world, in the tradition of classic works by Philip...
- Biographies, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
An original memoir in essays that interrogates how identities are shaped and informed in online spaces and how the relationship between race and the Internet has changed in his three...
- Biographies, History
- Publication Year: 2025
A poignant memoir by journalist Margaret Juhae Lee, who sets out on a search for her family’s history lost to the darkness of Korea’s colonial decades, and contends with the...
- Biographies, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
How do power and beauty join forces to determine who is considered ugly? What role does that ugliness play in fomenting hatred? Moshtari Hilal, an Afghan-born author and artist who...
- by Tiffany Yu
- Activism and Social Justice, Biographies, Discrimination and Racism, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction, People with Disabilities
- Publication Year: 2024
Tiffany Yu takes readers on a revelatory examination of disability—how to unpack biases and build an inclusive and accessible world. As the Asian American daughter of immigrants, living with PTSD,...
- Biographies, Demographic Studies, Literary Criticism & Theory, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde. We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher...
- Biographies, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
An impassioned homage to the divas who shake up our world and transform it with their bold, dazzling artistry. What does it mean to be a “diva”? A shifting, increasingly...
- Activism and Social Justice, Biographies, Nonfiction, Political Commentary
- Publication Year: 2024
What does self-care look like when struggling to make ends meet, living with a disability, or navigating intersectional marginalization? How can you prioritize well-being while divesting from systems built to...
- by Noé Álvarez
- Biographies, Immigrant Stories, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, Accordion Eulogies is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising history of a musical instrument. Growing up in Yakima, Washington,...
- Biographies, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
A powerful, lush memoir about a Hawaiian woman who ran away from paradise to discover who she is and where she belongs. Born and raised in Hawai‘i by a father...
- Biographies, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
A subtle psychological portrait of the author’s relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights. Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he...
- by Ilyon Woo
- Biographies, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
“A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting...
- Activism and Social Justice, Biographies, Discrimination and Racism, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and legacy—from his family’s roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina,...
- Biographies, Memoir and Biography, Young Adult Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
“There is no such thing as an illegal human being.” Maria Hinojosa is an Emmy Award–winning journalist, a bestselling author, and was the first Latina to found a national independent...
- Biographies, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2020
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism,...
- by Haben Girma
- Biographies, Nonfiction, People with Disabilities
- Publication Year: 2020
The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage. Haben grew up spending summers...
- Biographies, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2020
An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author’s interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative...
- Activism and Social Justice, Biographies, Immigrant Stories, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2019
America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents’ homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen,...
- by Samira Habib
- Biographies, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2019
How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don’t exist? Samra Habib has spent most of their life searching for the safety to be themself. As...
- Biographies, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction, Preschool
- Publication Year: 2018
A powerful, poetic memoir of an Indigenous woman’s coming of age on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest―this New York Times bestseller and Emma Watson Book Club pick...
- by Ilyon Woo
- Biographies, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2010
Ilyon Woo’s The Great Divorce is the dramatic, richly textured story of one of nineteenth-century America’s most infamous divorce cases, in which a young mother single-handedly challenged her country’s notions...
The Mahele of Our Bodies
Generated from the life histories of ten Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) elders (kūpuna) who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or māhū (LGBTQM), this book reveals the way they experienced...