J. R. Ackerley

J. R. Ackerley

male, deceased (1967)
Old Rossallian, British Military, Army Officer, World War I, the listener, British…memoirist
J. R. Ackerley (November 4, 1896 - June 4, 1967; his full registered name was Joe Ackerley; Randolph was added later as a tribute to an uncle) was...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

male, deceased (1778)
French, philosopher, Autobiographer, Roman Catholic, Alternative education, philosophes…memoirist
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) was a Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French...

Geoffrey Wolff

male, 72 years old
novelist, Princeton University alumni, Biographer, American, memoirist, University of California, Irvine
Geoffrey Wolff (born 1937) is an author and professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Irvine, where he directed the...
Alice B. Toklas

Alice B. Toklas

female, deceased (1967)
buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, convert to Christianity, Autobiographer, lesbian, American, Jewish American…memoirist
Alice B. Toklas was the life partner of writer Gertrude Stein.
Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard

female, 56 years old
JD Salinger The Man of My Dreams, The Domestic Affairs Message Board, From New Hampshire, Beinecke Library, Daphne Joyce Maynard, At Home In The World…memoirist
Daphne Joyce Maynard (born November 5, 1953) is an American writer who, in addition to her own literary career, is well-known for her relationship...
Haven Kimmel

Haven Kimmel

female, 44 years old
poet, novelist, children's writer, American, author, From Muncie, Indiana…memoirist
Haven Kimmel (born 1965) is an American author, novelist, and poet.
Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn

female, deceased (2003)
iconic, Bryn Mawr College alumni, Academy Award for Best Actress, English American, film actress, longtime romance…memoirist
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003) was an iconic American star of film, television and stage, widely recognized for her...
Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon

male, deceased (1967) (Houston, Texas, United States)
english poetry, Commander of British Empire, Jewish person, English poet, Jewish, Roman Catholic…memoirist
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE MC (8 September 1886 - 1 September 1967) was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical...
John Edgar Wideman

John Edgar Wideman

male, 68 years old
African American, book editor, University of Pennsylvania alumni, MacArthur Fellow, Rhode Island writer, from Washington, D.C.…memoirist
John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941, in Washington, DC) is an American writer.
Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly

female, deceased (1922)
buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, memoirist, expose, American, author, Undercover journalist
Nellie Bly was an American journalist, author, industrialist, and charity worker. She is most famous for an undercover exposé in which she faked i...