Chicago Literature Index

Memoirs and Autobiographies

	Title	Links	Published
1.	*Culture’s Garland*	Eugene Field Eugene Field Link	1887
2.	*Twenty Years at Hull House*	Jane Addams Jane Addams Link	1909
3.	*My Chicago*	Anna Morgan Anna Morgan Link	1918
4.	*My Thirty Years’ War*	Margaret Anderson Margaret Anderson Link	1930
5.	*The Second Twenty Years at Hull House*	Jane Addams Jane Addams Link	1930
6.	*Homecoming: An Autobiography*	Floyd Dell Floyd Dell Link	1933
7.	*A Poet’s Life: Seventy Years in a Changing World*	Harriet Monroe Harriet Monroe Link	1938
8.	*Black Boy*	Richard Wright Richard Wright Link	1945
9.	*Reporter: A Memoir*	Seymour Hersh Seymour Hersh Link	1951
10.	*Always the Young Stranger*	Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg Link	1953
11.	*Fabulous Chicago*	Emmett Dedmon Emmett Dedmon Link	1953
12.	*A Child of the Century: The Autobiography of Ben Hecht*	Ben Hecht Ben Hecht Link	1954
13.	*Chicago, With Love: A Polite and Personal History*	Arthur Meeker, Jr. Arthur Meeker Link	1955
14.	*A Touch of Innocence*	Katherine Dunham Katherine Dunham Link	1959
15.	*Many Lives, One Love*	Fanny Butcher Fanny Butcher Link	1972
16.	*Report from Part One*	Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks Link	1972
17.	*American Hunger*	Richard Wright Richard Wright Link	1977
18.	*The Secrets of Grown-Ups*	Vera Caspary Vera Caspary Link	1979
19.	*On Assignment*	Bill Kurtis Bill Kurtis Link	1983
20.	*Confessions of a Parish Priest: An Autobiography*	Andrew Greeley Father Andrew Greeley Link	1986
21.	*Kup: A Man, an Era, a City*	Irv Kupcinet Irv Kupcinet Link	1988
22.	*I Came A Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl*	Hilda Satt Polachek Hilda Satt Polachek Link	1989
23.	*It’s Always Something*	Gilda Radner Gilda Radner Link	1989
24.	*Dreams From My Father*	Barrack Obama Barrack Obama Link	1995
25.	*Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King*	B.B. King and David Ritz B.B. King Link	1996
26.	*Report from Part Two*	Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks Link	1996
27.	*Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion*	Natasha Tarpley Natasha Tarpley Link	1998
28.	*Furthermore: Memories of a Parish Priest*	Andrew Greeley Father Andrew Greeley Link	1999
29.	*Light My Fire: My Life With The Doors*	Ray Manzarek Ray Manzarek Link	1999
30.	*Orphan Girl: The Memoir of a Chicago Bag Lady*	Marie James and Jane Hertenstein Jane Hertenstein Link	1999
31.	*The Soup Has Many Eyes: From Shtetl to Chicago: a Memoir of One Family’s Journey Through History*	Joann Rose Leonard Joann Rose Leonard Link	2000
32.	*Days and Nights at The Second City*	Bernard Sahlins Bernard Sahlins Link	2001
33.	*Lake Effect*	Rich Cohen Rich Cohen Link	2002
34.	*Chaka! Through the Fire*	Chaka Khan and Tonya Bolden Chaka Khan Link	2003
35.	*Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion’s World Series of Poker*	James McManus James McManus Link	2003
36.	*Physical: An American Checkup,*	James McManus James McManus Link	2005
37.	*A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago*	Richard Christiansen Richard Christiansen Link	2006
38.	*I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This: And Other Things That Strike Me as Funny*	Bob Newhart Bob Newhart Link	2006
39.	*Sox and the City: A Fan’s Love Affair with the White Sox from the Heartbreak of ’67 to the Wizards of Oz*	Richard Roeper Richard Roeper Link	2006
40.	*Drunkard: A Hard Drinking Life*	Neil Steinberg Neil Steinberg Link	2008
41.	*The Cooked Seed*	Anchee Min	2013
42.	*Song of My Life*	Harry Mark Petrakis Harry Mark Petrakis Link	2014
43.	*Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead*	Christian Picciolini Christian Piccolini Link	2015
44.	*My Cubs: A Love Story*	Scott Simon Scott Simon Link	2017
45.	*The Boy Who Really, Really Wanted to Have Sex: The Memoir of a Fat Kid*	John McNally John McNally Link	2017
46.	*Once I Was You*	Maria Hinojosa Maria Hinojosa Link	2020
47.	*Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason*	Gina Frangello Gina Frangello Link	2021
48.	*Three Girls From Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood*	Dawn Turner Dawn Turner Link	2021
49.	*The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER*	Thomas Fisher Thomas Fisher Link	2022